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Nearly half of Cat A COEs go to EVs in first 9 months of 2025
The Straits Times
|November 03, 2025
EVs make up 43% of new car registrations, up from 33.8% in 2024 and 18.2% in 2023
The adoption rate of electric vehicles (EVs) in Singapore is gathering pace, with 43 per cent of new car registrations in the first nine months of 2025 being that of electric cars.
EVs accounted for 33.8 per cent of new car sales in the whole of 2024, and 18.2 per cent in 2023.
They also made up 45.6 per cent of Category A certificate of entitlement (COE) registrations in the first nine months of 2025, up from 37.3 per cent for the whole of 2024 and 15 per cent in 2023.
The share of EVs in Category B registrations between January and September stood at 39.8 per cent, up from 29.7 per cent in the whole of 2024 and 21.5 per cent in 2023.
EVs with up to 110kW of power are registered using a Category A COE, while more powerful electric cars are registered with Category B certificates.
Land Transport Authority (LTA) data till the end of September shows that there were 41,732 electric cars on the road, representing 6.3 per cent of the total car population. This is up from 4 per cent as at the end of 2024 and 1.8 per cent in 2023.
This story is from the November 03, 2025 edition of The Straits Times.
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