Name: I switched to electric vehicles in Singapore for a week – here’s what I learned
Uploaded: 2022-01-09T17:50:58.000Z
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I took one electric car and one  electric motorcycle for a ride

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Fun fact: it goes really fast. More fun  facts: it goes very, very, very fast.

It's at 12 percent right now and the remaining  time is almost 7 hours.

There're more than 10 million  electric vehicles in the world.

That's pretty impressive, considering  that if you rewound back a decade,  

But before the world can fully make the  switch to electric, sufficient infrastructure  

has to be in place first, especially in  cities crammed with high rise apartments.

Governments all around the world have been  encouraging that with policies and incentives,  

If you drive electric, you'll still have to  contend with all of the pitfalls of city driving,  

Like: where would I charge it?  How fast or slow will charging be?

And with rising electrical prices,  how much will a full charge cost?

So, I'm here to trade my private transport in  for brand-new electric vehicles for the week,  

just to see what are the pain  points and the plus points.

Five years ago, there were only 12 pure  electric cars driving on Singapore roads.

And by August 2021, there were  more than 1,800 electric cars,  

In 2021, 6.75 million EVs were sold globally.

Tesla leads the market, with the most  all-electric car sales by far in 2021,  

followed by the Volkswagen group,  BYD, GM and the Stellantis group,  

which has brands such as Jeep,  Chrysler and Alfa Romeo in its stable.

After being on the road for a while, I decided  to give my car its first charge during lunch.

But I had to find a charging point first.

Thankfully, there were several  apps to help me with that.

They said that there's charging  lots here, just trying to find them.

So, there's two kinds of charging  points. This is the normal kind,  

Is it far enough? It doesn't  look like it's far enough.

Because the charging cable wasn't long  enough, so I have to go head in first.

Right now, it's actually full. So, we're  gonna see if it makes any difference.

We have to add our credit card to the app first.

Oh, fantastic. So, in the time that we took  the car to our first charge, we went down 3%.

It's been 10 minutes plus and it has  only charged 4%. Not a full charge.

So, I think what we're gonna do is we're going  to stop right now. We don't need a full charge.

Hyundai promised a mileage of up to 484 kilometers  with a full charge for its Kona Electric model.

It's been a very, very fun ride, very smooth.

Basically, like any other car, just that  we're not visiting petrol stations anymore.

We're using our mobile apps to locate the nearest  

charging point and we're going  to be heading there right now.

Because it's less than 60km to go and I  don't want to risk going on an empty battery.

And I'm gonna learn from my  mistake, I'm gonna go head in.

This is a slow charger, so I'm gonna  plug it in and see how long it would take.

The battery level does say  that it's very low right now.

So, using a slow charger, it's at 12% right now  and the remaining time is almost 7 hours.

I think it's a little bit too slow,  even with this service being free,  

so what we're gonna do is we're gonna juice  it up to maybe 15% or 20% and then we're gonna  

find a fast charger to see how long it would  take because I'm not sitting here for 7 hours.

I'm very, highly, aware that  I have very little juice  

in my car now, so we are going to  find a fast charger as soon as we can.

We're gonna go grab some coffee  and come back in about an hour.

It's at 84% charge. Within the 45 minutes  it took for me to grab some coffee.  

And there's 16 minutes to go to a 100%  charge, so I think that's pretty good.

We're gonna stop charging here and then  we're gonna see how much it costs.

Singapore's a country of  only 2,000 charging points.

The city-state aims for all vehicles to  make a switch to clean energy by 2040,  

but there's more than 950,000 vehicles, on the  road today including cars, motorcycles, buses and taxis.

There are currently about 1.4 million public and  

private parking lots in Singapore,  spread over 12,000 car parks.

Building a wider EV infrastructure in such a  densely packed place has its challenges too.

Within the next decade, the country aims to have  60,000 EV charging points across the island,  

of which 40,000 are in public car parks  and the remainder in private premises.

There is a range of innovative products out there.

of the International Council on  Clean Transportation in Europe.

For example, you have those lampposts where you  can plug in your electric car and charge it.

It doesn't take up lots of space, it's relatively  cheap and can be rolled out throughout the city.

You have a lot of supermarkets nowadays  in Europe that allow you to recharge while  

you're shopping in the supermarket. They have  charging infrastructure in their parking lots.

And I think that's a very intelligent way,  because you're using space that is there anyway,  

and you involve the private businesses  that can build up the infrastructure.

What we want to do is to look at electric  vehicles, and that's not just cars, right?

I've ridden for more than 13 years, longer than I've driven.

So, I'm here to pick up an electric motorcycle  from Italian manufacturer Energica, trade in my  

Triumph for a couple weeks, and see if it  would compel this biker to make a switch.

We wanted something that was on two wheels,  

and in the market, there are a lot in China, the  ones with the swappable batteries and whatnot.

And we looked around and the best  bike possible to bring onto the market  

would be something really high-end.  Energica would be that one.

The base model for this has an 80-kilowatt  motor with a 21.5-kilowatt battery.

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