Singapore to stop registration of diesel cars and taxis from 2025

Singapore

SINGAPORE will cease new registrations of diesel cars and taxis from 2025, with all new car and taxi registrations to be of cleaner-energy models from 2030, said Minister for Transport Ong Ye Kung on Thursday.

Fleet operators seemed unsurprised by the announcement even though this is five years earlier than the target to have all new vehicles be "cleaner energy" models by 2030.

Diesel vehicles made up about 85 per cent of Singapore's taxi fleet five years ago but they now comprise about 40 per cent of the country's 15,888 taxis.

As of Januar…

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