Electric Car VS Petrol Car: Costs, Performance, Emissions And Range

Singapore aims to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles in less than 20 years. The vision is “to have all vehicles run on cleaner energy by 2040,” said Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat in his 2020 Budget speech.

For most, that’d mean swapping out petrol cars for hybrids or electric cars. In this episode of #TalkingPoint, presenter Steven Chia tries out an electric car. He also meets the owner of the first Tesla in Singapore, Joe Nguyen, who shares about the day-to-day costs of owning an electric car.

00:00 Is it cheaper to own an electric car vs a petrol car in terms of the purchase price, taxes, mileage and servicing?
01:23 How long does it take to charge an electric car? Is it easy to find a charger?
02:02 Is an electric car more eco-friendly? Is it really zero emissions?
02:27 Which is faster? An electric car or petrol car?
03:10 What if my battery goes flat? How far can I drive on a single charge?

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[AlphGen]

How much does a replacement battery pack cost and what happens to the recycle of batteries

[frozenicebladez]

Singapore so small, why they do so scared about distance and stuff

[Bryan-egsi]

Whether or not the vehicle is carbon neutral because of where the electricity come from.
It is the country who has to make sure that the electricity is produced in a sustainable way. The cars are already not pushing out any emissions

[AlphGen]

What is the actual cost of building the components from Earth to installation?

[CJinsoo]

that is a massive financial incentive to purchase. the cars are not affordable for most people without that incentive. There's a ways to go.

[mohdhaj]

What happen if I drive a electric car from Singapore to KL ... does Malaysia have a charging area...?

[monstercameron]

there is a transmission...it's just a single speed for Teslas but Etron rs and Taycan have a 2 speed transmission.

[jimfrodsham]

I would have thought that Singapore is a great place to have an ev. Anyone in fact who only does city driving. HK is another, the stench of Air pollution from vehicles was awful.

[nchlst]

Electric cars are proved to be more expensive than Econoboxes and lemons, just buy an Econobox or lemon

[bernardchan]

Lines seems to have been blurred between ‘incentive’ and ‘lower disincentive’.

[AlphGen]

Has the Singapore fire department been equipped to extinguish an electric car fire?

[benjaminfalzon]

I've often wondered how the government was going to recover all that petrol tax excise it will lose, as more electric cars are produced...Now I know!! 3.5 cents per kilometres tax on electric cars...Which is fair enough, renewables are very expensive...Renewables are all about a cleaner environment, not saving money.

[TheNissan]

Ya this just the faster n shorter version of the full episode. But why is the basketball court is so empty!

[kalmdwn]

Imagine it breaking down mid lane. Where's the neutral gear?

[kittenssmile]

Can you test EV car with high mountains?

[tkyap]

EVs is not a new concept. The problems then are the same now. As technology advances, we may overcome the drawbacks.

[liquidluck]

Yea ok, great we all love electric cars. But what happens when over 60% of the world's cobalt used in the batteries is coming from slave labor camps in Africa and ChYna? What happens when they destroy the local ecosystems of an entire area just to extract the elements needed for such cars? Do we ignore it all because "science" has told us oil bad? Well both options are awful. How about we look into hydrogen based cars? Maybe ones with Tesla coils and mercury running in tandem with electrolysis engines which split tap water into hydrogen and oxygen? What happens when the best methods are suppressed by both oil and electric car corporations need for greed and absolute dominance of a market place? Who really are the winners? Because all I see are two losing ideas compete for what they refuse to look into, backyardism and True science denialism. Come at me CNA and delete this comment so others won't know the True nature of whats being done onto us "deplorables"....

[Rolandd]

Good video until they got to "range anxiety". Then it falls apart. I only know two people with Teslas and lots of folks with golf carts for local travel (rural South Carolina, USA). All report similar issues with battery charges. The distance you get in the first 50% of charge is MUCH further then what you'll get in the second 50%.

Then he says he gets 100 km (62 miles) on half-a-tank of gas on his conventional car. What kind of crap cars do they have in Singapore? He has a 4 gallon (12 liter) gas tank? My Honda Civic has a 13 gallon tank and city mileage of 30 mpg (7.8 L/100km). So my Honda Civic has MORE THAN THREE TIMES the City range of his EV (over 4 times the hiway mileage). His EV wouldn't get me to the nearest big city and back on a single charge. ***That's according to CNA's numbers. Teslas officially travel 250 - 370 miles on a single charge. Even with on site charging my neighbor's Model 3 won't get him to Atlanta and back on a single charge and need several hours recharge. Since then he borrows my old Honda and can make the trip on a sing tank of gas.

Americans who need cars & can afford EVs rarely live in cities.

I look forward to the EV revolution but in the US, the range problem has to be fixed. And, no, making 3-5 times as many stops to "refuel" is not a real option. IMHO, the US needs inexpensive, short range (50 - 100+ miles), medium performance vehicles as second/third cars. Until then, EVs are just commuter cars for the upper middle class.

[petersmith]

One major downside of driving an EV compared to an ICE vehicle is the higher amount of EMF radiation being emitted by EV vehicles and the associated possible long term health risk; i. e. cancer, for the driver and passengers.