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HDT pulls plug on electric-taxi business in Singapore on 'debilitating' Covid-19 hit

It will focus on developing car-hailing, electric-bus services, electric-truck sales, as well as the leasing of EVs

Sat, Nov 28, 2020 - 5:50 AM

Under HDT Singapore Taxi's full-time employment model, drivers have been receiving a base pay with benefits such as sick leave and CPF contributions, in contrast to other companies that rent out taxis to cabbies who keep all the fares they earn.

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Singapore

HDT Singapore Holding, whose electric taxis had plied the city-state's roads for two years, is powering down the business for good and instead focusing on other green transportation solutions.

This was because the company has suffered a "prolonged, debilitating impact" as...