Sembcorp Industries’ waste management business, SembWaste, has launched a solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) charging hub at its Tuas depot.
The solar-powered EV charging hub is the first of its kind in Singapore, according to the company.
The hub will serve as a central charging station for Sembcorp’s fleet of waste and recycling electric trucks.
It can charge up to 18 industrial EVs via four-hour fast charging cycles and will have the capacity to conduct about 100 electric charging cycles per day.
Sembcorp says SembWaste is gradually transitioning its reliance on diesel-powered trucks to electric trucks for refuse and recyclables collection.
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SembWaste will be introducing a fleet of electric trucks in July, it says, to support waste collection in the Clementi-Bukit Merah and City-Punggol municipal sectors.
This fleet of electric trucks comprises approximately 20% of SembWaste’s operational fleet for these two sectors, adds the company.
Sembcorp says it plans to open the facility for public use by other industrial vehicles by 2022.
The hub would then be able to serve the needs of industries located in the Tuas region, it adds.
“With the launch of Singapore’s first solar-powered EV charging hub, Sembcorp is pleased to be supporting Singapore’s transport decarbonisation efforts, and look forward to opening up our hub for public use by other industrial vehicles,” Koh Chiap Khiong, CEO, Singapore and Southeast Asia, Sembcorp Industries, says in a July 19 statement.
As at 1.16 pm, Sembcorp was down 3 cents or 1.4% at $2.10 with 4.4 million shares changed hands.
Photo credit: Sembcorp Industries.
S Iswaran, Minister for Transport (left) touring the Sembcorp Green EV charging hub at SembWaste Tuas Depot, with (from left to right) Neo Hong Keat, managing director, SembWaste; Kevin Sim, business development director, Eigen Energy; Geraldina Koh, business development manager, SembWaste.
