Over half of all new vans in Singapore registered in Q1 2023 were electric


In the first quarter of 2023, 938 electric light goods vehicles were registered, up from 206 units in the first quarter of 2022. - The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE, May 1 (The Straits Times/ANN): Some 51.9 per cent of new vans registered in Singapore in the first three months of 2023 were electric vehicles (EVs).

This is the first time that EV registration outnumbered registration of vehicles with internal combustion engines for a given vehicle type. Just 20.1 per cent of vans registered in the same period in 2022 were EVs.

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