In January 2025 there were 27,254 pure-electric cars on Singapore's roads. Today there are 56,770, or 8.6% of every car in the fleet. Five years ago the figure was just over a thousand.
Singapore's car fleet has been held roughly flat by policy since 2018. The total pool of cars barely moves year on year. What changes underneath is the fuel mix, and right now that change is almost entirely about pure-electric. Every additional EV is an internal-combustion car leaving the road.
The arc is geometric. Pure-electric crossed 1,000 cars in late 2019, 10,000 in late 2023, and looks set to cross 60,000 within the year. EV share of the fleet has gone from a rounding error to 8.6% in six years.
Two policy moments helped on the supply side. In May 2022, EVs were reclassified from Category A to Category B once rated output crossed 110 kW, moving the bulk of new EV models into the larger-engine bucket. In February 2025, LTA injected roughly 20,000 extra COEs over five years to ease the supply squeeze. The line had already turned up before either.
Cars are not the whole story. Taxis crossed 90% hybrid years ago. Singapore's Toyota Prius and Camry fleet was the first large-scale electrification on local roads, and pure-electric taxis are only starting to follow. Buses and goods vehicles are quietly going straight to battery: both segments are already at roughly 5% pure-electric, with no hybrid bridge. Motorcycles, by contrast, have not moved at all. Under 1% are anything other than petrol.