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  • I took one electric car and one  electric motorcycle for a ride

  • for seven days in the city of Singapore.

  • 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,  

  • you'd find a grand total of 0.

  • 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,  

  • but where are we on that journey?

  • And can a city dweller like me adapt?

  • Here's what I learned.

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

  • and the charging question.

  • Like: where would I charge itHow fast or slow will charging be?

  • And with rising electrical priceshow 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,  

  • with about 11% of them being Teslas.

  • And that's just in a small city-state.

  • In 2021, 6.75 million EVs were sold globally.

  • That's double 2020's figures.

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

  • followed by the Volkswagen groupBYD, GM and the Stellantis group,  

  • which has brands such as JeepChrysler and Alfa Romeo in its stable.

  • Now back to driving.

  • 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,  

  • I believe, and this is the fast charger.

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

  • I think I need to turn the car.

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

  • Okay, take two.

  • 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 says that it will take 4 minutes.

  • 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.

  • So I put it to the test.

  • 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 anddon't want to risk going on an empty battery.

  • Oh, it's just right in front! Fantastic.

  • 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.

  • Let's see how take it will take.

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

  • It's charging, but slowly and surely.

  • I think it's a little bit too sloweven 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.

  • I feel like I'm an expert already.

  • 48 minutes! Which is a big improvement.

  • 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.

  • And it's only $15.36.

  • 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 vehicleson the road today including cars, motorcycles, buses and taxis.

  • So how is that going to be possible?

  • There are currently about 1.4 million public and  

  • private parking lots in Singaporespread over 12,000 car parks.

  • Building a wider EV infrastructure in suchdensely 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.

  • Peter Mock is the Managing Director  

  • 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 waybecause 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-endEnergica would be that one.

  • Tell us about this one.

  • This is the Energica EsseEsse 9+.

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

  • But the performance on this, if we go just  based on specs alone, is 0-100(km/h) in 2.8 seconds.

  • Wow, that's really fast. And I'm sure I'll  have the opportunity to test that out.

  • What's the comparison between this  bike and a conventional CC bike?

  • No comparison. Plain and simple.

  • Let's open up the bike.

  • Here is your DC and AC charger.

  • So, I can charge anywhere that  I can charge an electric car.

  • That's correct.

  • So we have a charger in the officeand that's where we charge it.

  • If you're not working for 30 minutes, likenormal person would work for about 6-7 hours.

  • You get off work and it's fully charged.

  • People like myself, people who are trying out  electric vehicles, who's only used to the norm  

  • and trying to change the mindset, and I think  that's one of the harder parts about trying to get

  • people to switch over, right?

  • Number one when we talk about  EVs, it's always range anxiety.

  • Energica has got one of the highest ranges.

  • On eco mode, it goes about 380  kilometers on real world mileage.

  • That's really more than enough for a week.

  • And it's perfect because in  a city like Singapore, right,  

  • you're not always on the highwaysYou're in traffic, stop go, stop go.

  • Every time it stops, there's actually a current  of 126 amperes going back into the battery.

  • The second one is the lifespan of the battery.

  • They like to liken it to a handphonemy handphone after three years, my battery's dead.

  • But for an EV car or bike, as long as you keep  the battery within a healthy range of 20-80%,  

  • they'll last you 10 years or more.

  • Once you change the whole  mindset about that, right,  

  • you'll realize that electric cars  and bikes are really the way to go.

  • The global motorcycle market generated  sales of around $109 billion in 2021.

  • And motorbikes and scooters  

  • remain the primary means of transport  in countries like Vietnam and India.

  • I took a ride down to Scorpio Electric, the first  electric motorcycle brand launched from Singapore,  

  • where founder Melvin Goh introduces to  me the X1, a premium electric scooter.

  • We have a range of 200km. So, I think  that's a good range for city riding.

  • Top speed is 105km/hour.

  • There is a charging port here, which  you can charge from any car charger.

  • What were the things that you saw  could be improved in the market?

  • The connectivity. It's something  that is a must for the future.

  • So, we have a lot of functions on the app.

  • We tell you where you can  locate the charging locations,  

  • the battery condition, everything  is both on the phone and the app.

  • Scorpio, as a company, you are a start-up.

  • What has been the biggest challengebreaking into the electric motorcycle market?

  • We are short of talent.

  • So, it's a question of the government, the peopleenterprises, companies, encouraging electric and  

  • it will happen eventually, very quickly.

  • The X1 wasn't available yet for a demo ride,  

  • but the Scorpio team allowed me  to test ride an earlier prototype.

  • It's a lot of fun, great ride!

  • And I was treated to the  power of the electric scooter,  

  • with one of the guys doing a quick burn-out!

  • After days of heavy usage on the  Energica, it was time for a juice-up.

  • It's charging right now, the lights  will light up, the dashboard lights up.

  • It's at 39% now. So, this electric  bike, as long as I've had it, I've  

  • brought it through the wringer, I've ridden  in the rain, I've ridden more than 150km.

  • And it's only at 39%, now 40%. When I got it,  

  • it was almost 95%, so that's pretty  good for a week's worth of riding.

  • So, it says there's 16 minutes left for a full  

  • charge, that's pretty good, that's  not even enough for a coffee.

  • From 40% to 80% charge, it's about $3.44.

  • The electric bike is definitely heavierbut not necessarily harder to ride.

  • And well, look, I'm a true-blue  city girl, and I think if I've  

  • ridden on enough electric  motorcycles and scooters,  

  • and found the right one for me, the right  height, the right size, I might make the switch.

  • Back in the Kona, I decided to do a last  charge. And I ran into another problem.

  • I know from own experience also, in urban areas,  

  • you'll find the charging spot and then it's  either broken sometimes or it's occupied  

  • by another vehicle, sometimes even bycombustion engine vehicle illegally parking there.

  • Mine? I just need to chargelike maybe half an hour.

  • In my case, it wastoo many  cars, too little chargers.”

  • OK never mind, that one is  done, I will go over there.

  • This is one of the issues when you have  

  • reliance on public chargers, you  have to wait in line or queue  

  • up because sometimes when you go to a charging  point, you realize someone is already using it.

  • After 20 minutes of chargingmy fee was just $5.19.

  • In 2021, the European Commission made headlines,  

  • after it presented the world's first  tangible plan to target carbon neutrality.

  • It included a de facto ban on producing new  diesel and gasoline-powered cars by 2035.

  • But how will it be implemented? Peter explained.

  • Every new car in Europe has to be electric.

  • For this in Europe, we basically have at three  different layers, we have important regulations.

  • At the European level, highest level, we  have an EU-wide standard for new cars.

  • The good news is that the manufacturerswhich in the past, sometimes  

  • tended to oppose these kinds of restrictions  or plans, they are pretty much all on board.

  • Then at the national level, we have subsidieswe have tax benefits for electric vehicles.

  • And for example, in France, we have a very  interesting system, the bonus model system  

  • it's called, where those vehicles that have low  emissions, electric vehicles, they get a bonus,  

  • and that bonus is financed by  those vehicles with high emissions.

  • And then at the lowest level, at the  regional level, you have a lot of different  

  • incentives in place and measures in place.

  • We have many cities throughout Europe that have  announced that you cannot go with a combustion  

  • engine vehicle into that city anymore from  2025 onwards, for example in Bergen and Oslo.

  • And these targets are very important  symbolic measures because that, I think,  

  • changes the mindset of consumers and  they know that if I buy my next car,  

  • it has to be electric, otherwise  I cannot get in the city anymore.

  • It's been a very fun week.

  • Those three challenges that I predicted  for myself, even with the very few charging  

  • points in Singapore, the infrastructure  is there, to build up and add on to.

  • My advice to any city in the world, reallywould be, to get to know your fleet,  

  • and measure the real emissions of  those vehicles driving on the road,  

  • think about implementing these  low or zero-emission zones.

  • But then, of course, if citizens  buy more and more electric cars,  

  • you as a city also have the responsibility  to provide the necessary infrastructure,  

  • and then following up step by step in increasing  the density of charging infrastructure and making  

  • sure that it's accessible and functioningof course, for the entire population.

  • And one thing's for sure: In two decades or  even less, the landscape of road transport  

  • will look completely different, as an  electric future is probably here to stay.

I took one electric car and one  electric motorcycle for a ride

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