Electric vehicles may be fast and low-maintenance, but are they a real climate solution?

This will enable it to cease new diesel car and taxi registrations from 2025 and require all new car and taxi registrations to be of cleaner-energy models from 2030.Going by this goal, EV chargers will be deployed in most, if not all, car parks over the next decade, said EV Association of Singapore’s vice-president Paul Welsford.Get the week's stories and documentaries in your inbox every SundayThis service is not intended for persons residing in the EU.

There’ll be charging points that offer quick top-ups and others that'll be slower, said Paul Welsford. In China’s Shenzhen, where all public buses and taxis are electric, a fully charged bus can cover up to 300 km — more than enough for a day’s work, said Shenzhen Bus Group’s head of international development, Hallie Liao.

Advances in battery technology are helping to reduce the effects of rapid direct-current charging, he added.

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