{"id":446029,"date":"2021-10-29T08:31:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T03:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=446029"},"modified":"2021-10-29T09:24:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T03:54:49","slug":"tesla-ev-sales-boom-in-singapore-pushing-rivals-models-off-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tesla-ev-sales-boom-in-singapore-pushing-rivals-models-off-the-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla EV sales boom in Singapore, pushing rivals&#8217; models off the streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In wealthy Singapore, where new vehicle registration is tightly controlled to manage the city state&#8217;s traffic and pollution, Tesla Inc is having a moment: surging sales are gobbling up rivals&#8217; market share.<\/p>\n<p>The buying frenzy in one of the world&#8217;s most expensive places to own a vehicle &#8211; Tesla&#8217;s most basic Model 3 costs nearly S$200,000 ($148,300) in Singapore, largely due to an ownership levy, compared with less than $40,000 in the United States &#8211; underscores the U.S. firm&#8217;s ascent in the global auto industry.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Tesla surpassed $1 trillion in market value, overshadowing the combined value of five of its biggest rivals, Toyota Motor Corp, Volkswagen AG, Daimler AG, Ford Motor Co and General Motors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In wealthy Singapore, where new vehicle registration is tightly controlled to manage the city state&#8217;s traffic and pollution, Tesla Inc is having a moment: surging sales are gobbling up rivals&#8217; market share. The buying frenzy in one of the world&#8217;s most expensive places to own a vehicle &#8211; Tesla&#8217;s most basic Model 3 costs nearly S$200,000 ($148,300) in Singapore, largely due to an ownership levy, compared with less than $40,000 in the United States &#8211; underscores the U.S. firm&#8217;s ascent in the global auto industry. This week, Tesla surpassed $1 trillion in market value, overshadowing the combined value of five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}