SINGAPORE: Vehicular Emissions Scheme to Replace Carbon-Based Emissions Vehicle Scheme

Meta Data
Draft: 
No
Revision of previous policy?: 
Yes
Effective Start Year: 
2018
Effective End Year: 
2019
Scope: 
National
Document Type: 
Programme
Economic Sector: 
Power, Transport
Energy Types: 
Power, Other
Issued by: 
Joint Media Release by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) & NEA
Source: 
Land Transport Authority
File: 
Vehicular Emissions Scheme to Replace Carbon-Based Emissions Vehicle Scheme
Overall Summary: 
The Vehicular Emissions Scheme (VES) to Replace Carbon-Based Emissions Vehicle Scheme (CEVS) is applied to all new cars, taxis and newly imported used cars with effect from 1 January 2018. The new Scheme was announced by the National Environment Authority (NEA) at the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR)’s 2017 Committee of Supply Debate.
Environment
Pollution control action plans: 
In addition to the carbon dioxide (CO ) criterion in the existing CEVS, the VES will cover 4 other pollutants - hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NO ) and particulate matter (PM). --- The VES rebate or surcharge for a car or taxi will be determined by its worst-performing pollutant. This is to encourage buyers to choose models that have lower emissions across all criteria and are cleaner overall, so as to further improve ambient air quality and thereby improve public health [...] Similar to the existing CEVS, the rebate and surcharge for taxis under the VES will be 50 per cent higher to better encourage taxi companies to adopt lower emission models for their fleets, as taxis generally clock higher mileage than cars. To account for the CO emissions produced by electricity generation from fossil fuels, an emission factor will be applied to the electricity consumption of electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) as measured under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Regulation No.101 test procedures.