Singapore has officially launched its first large-scale electric vehicle (EV) car-sharing programme with the introduction of the BlueSg service, with initial deployment through a fleet of 80 cars and 32 charging stations being available for public use.
The company, a subsidiary of France’s Bollore Group, said it aims to progressively roll out 1,000 EVs and 500 charging stations – offering 2,000 charging points in total – across the island by 2020. Four hundred of these charging stations will be opened to public use.
It added that the Singapore service, which it has a licence to run for a decade, will become the world’s second-biggest electric car-sharing programme after Paris. Apart from these two cities, the Bollore Group operates EV car-sharing programmes in Bordeaux and Lyon in France, Indianapolis and Los Angeles in the US, Torino in Italy and London.
Last week, the company unveiled its subscription plans for the programme – there’s a premium yearly membership costing S$15 (RM45) a month, in which members are charged S$0.33 (RM1) per minute for a minimum duration of 15 minutes.
The other plan is a weekly membership, which has no recurring fee, with the rate being S$0.50 (RM1.50) per minute. The company said that 2,000 members had registered with the service ahead of its launch.
The vehicle featured in BlueSG’s programme is the Bollore Bluecar, a two-door hatchback designed by Pininfarina and built by Italian company Cecomp. The Bluecar can carry four occupants and has an operational range of around 200 km on a single charge of its 30 kWh lithium-metal polymer battery, with propulsion provided by a 50 kW (67 hp) electric motor.
The BlueSG programme comes at a time when the republic is looking to trim down its vehicle population. In October, the country’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced that the growth rate for cars and motorcycles in categories A, B and D would be cut to zero from the current 0.25% beginning February next year.
The cut, according to the LTA, is primarily driven by land constraints and an ongoing push to improve the public transport system.
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Wont be stolen or vandalized like those Mobike bicycles..
We already had comos, just wondering if they are still operating or not?
COMOS public funded, taxpayers money down the drain agains
COMOS ownership is fully private. Where did u get that its public funded? It does have innovators grant, but so does other innovating kompenis as well.
COMOS wuz here 1st
good for them.. better dont operate here coz sure rosak by those irresponsible idiots
over there oso got vandal even capture in video.
Malaysia should become the world’s 3rd-biggest electric car-sharing programme after Paris & SG.
In fact, we will learn from Paris & SG “teething” problem’s & make it even BETTER. Malaysia Boleh Mah. He he he. Cheers…
$20 per hour think again…10 hours already $200…Better rent car below 1.4L for 1 day $45-65 plus petrol $30 still worth it
u got drive 10 hours a day ? u must be pretty stupid to think of using this to do grab uber