Motor vehicles

BlueSG relaunches as Flexar, pivots to asset-light model

With a fresh Middle Eastern oil crisis building, Asian EV  manufacturers are poised to seize a new market, says the writer.

Expensive oil is EV makers’ best sales pitch

The annual 10 free VEP days and the free VEP hours on weekdays will also be removed.

Singapore to raise entry permit fees for foreign-registered vehicles from 2027

VinFast's Evo lineup became Vietnam’s best-selling e-scooter range in 2025, delivering more than 250,000 units.

Vietnam’s e-scooters rise on policy tailwinds, eroding petrol bike sales

Rickey Tan was engaged in the business of trading car bodies both in his personal capacity and through his company, Car Ranger.

Car body trader gets jail for tax evasion, is fined more than S$800,000

Neo Tiam Ting, president of the Singapore Vehicle Traders Association, has had his appeal denied by the Appellate Division of the High Court.

Singapore vehicle traders’ association in leadership limbo after court voids disputed elections

CEO Son says that his company plans to boost production from its current capacity of 30,000 units per year to around 100,000 by the end of 2026.

Vietnam startup Dat Bike seeks slice of third-largest EV motorbike market

Friday’s court decision had calmed the industry’s worst fears about the size of the bill it would face over improperly disclosed commissions on car loans - a sum analysts had estimated could run to tens of billions of pounds.

UK’s FCA proposes £9 billion to £18 billion redress scheme for motor finance claims

A Nissan Ariya electric sports utility vehicle on display at the Japan Mobility Show in Chiba, Japan.
PERSPECTIVE

Japan hopes electric cars were just a bad dream