You provide electric-power charging station to charge EVs 

 

Your objectives
To minimise risk and losses at the start-up phase of your business

To profit and thrive in the long-term

To ensure that the Singapore government has policies that are conducive to the long-term growth of the EV sector in Singapore.

 

To lobby the government, represented by the Land Transport Authority(LTA) or the Ministry of Transport, to support EV charging operators by increasing the amount of money invested into supporting new and established operators, approving contracts to build charging stations in public areas and encouraging the public to use EVs instead of conventional vehicles for private transportation.

Aims:

 Persuade LTA/the Ministry that carbon dioxide emissions and pollution from private transport, especially traditional cars, is extremely significant and should be mitigated by transitioning quickly to EV and building more EV stations. We should emphasise that allowing private enterprises to build these EV stations is better than delegating the work to LTA or the Ministry as companies are able to compete with one another to lower costs, increase efficiency and improve quality, making private operators more suitable for the project. We should also want to persuade the Government to undertake a major campaign to inflate the costs of traditional vehicles, such as increasing the value of the COE or the excise duties levied on cars, which will suppress competition from traditional markets, thus allowing operators to see unprecedented growth.

- Will state-owned or government-owned operators be competing in the market, and how much more support will they receive compared to private operators?

- How much oversight will the government want its ministries and statutory boards to have over the modification of existing infrastructure like car parks to accommodate charging stations?

- Will the COE of EVs be lowered to convince more consumers to switch? 

- What will the government do to curtail opposition from larger, more established markets such as the petrol industry?

- How should profits earned by the operators be taxed and distributed equitably?

-What will the government do to ensure that the infrastructure to support charging stations for EVs is in place, and when can this be accomplished?

Carbon emission rates of traditional vehicles

Data on negative health-related implications of traditional vehicular pollution

Technical reviews of the inadequacies of existing EV charging infrastructure

Existing profits of EV operators, operational costs’

Case studies of EV adoption in other countries

The government needs to support businesses more to encourage EV ownership and EV charging operators to grow locally by covering initial losses and costs while actively discouraging continued conventional vehicle use.

The government can also in turn rely on the capacity of private enterprise, whether local or international, to overhaul existing inadequacies in EV infrastructure to ease the transition.

Innovative ways to make charging stations and cars more efficient and safer must be found to address current problems in established infrastructure.

Existing concerns of Government and its regulation of vehicular use

Technical constraints in existing infrastructure

Short and long-term feasibility of EV industry

Innovations required to improve cost-effectiveness of EV charging

Practical benefits of EV adoption on consumers and on addressing climate change

Government subsidies and miscellaneous support, the competition between various operators and the increasing size of the EV industry will necessarily lead to high-quality and quantity outcomes for Singapore’s EV adoption rate

Adopting EVs will effectively reduce carbon emissions locally

EV operators will eventually be able to break even despite technical and other relevant constraints of the status quo

 

If the third assumption does not prove true, this will render the EV solution to address carbon emissions in Singapore useless, and may even be a liability on the national transition to carbon neutrality, which may cause a loss in governmental and public support, leading to the same outcome described in the first point.

·      Perspective of existing state-owned EV charging operators

·      Perspective of Singaporean voters(especially car owners, both EV and traditional)

·      Perspective of workers in the petrol or auto industry

·      Perspective of climate activists

·      Perspective of those living near planned locations for EV charging stations

·      Perspective of business leaders in competing sectors(petrol, traditional cars)