Big oil TotalEnergies charging into electric vehicles

 IF Liang Ting Wee, the country chair of TotalEnergies Singapore, has one key mandate, it is to take the French energy group’s `green involvement’ in Singapore - and then to the rest of the region - to the next level. And in many ways, he has laid strong groundworks towards that end.

In the nearly two years since Singapore-born Liang took on that position, TotalEnergies has scooped up a vast urban charging network for electric vehicles in the city state and is working on its marine fuel business delivering low-emission fuels for ships at the Singapore port, while widening such climate-friendly efforts across the region where it has operations.

Apart from helming the group’s regional headquarters in the city state, he also wears another hat as president of the group’s marketing and services business in Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Total Energies has operations in over 40 countries with 6,800 employees in these regions.