Viet FT To Pay $15k Carbon Tax On His $400k Electric Tesla Car!

[Onitsuka]

Wtf a viet doing in sg as a senior vp ???

Bro, don't let fancy titles fool you. He is a SVP, his wife is the President. There are only 2 employees in the firm, like most Internet firm, unless you are Google.

He bought the Tesla from Hongkong, and an used car too. You wonder his real intention. And from the photo, he appears to be a HDB dweller.

 

[johnny333]

Bro, don't let fancy titles fool you. He is a SVP, his wife is the President. There are only 2 employees in the firm, like most Internet firm, unless you are Google.

He bought the Tesla from Hongkong, and an used car too. You wonder his real intention. And from the photo, he appears to be a HDB dweller.

Don't know too many HDB dwellers who can afford a $400,000 car.
In fact I had a colleague who was denied a HDB unit because he & his wife's combined salary was too high.

 

[yahoo55]

According to the article, his home is a cluster house so he's probably not a HDB dweller.

 

[JohnTan]

SINGAPORE - The boss of US electric car maker Tesla Motors, Mr Elon Musk, has contacted Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong over the case of a Tesla sedan that was taxed with a carbon surcharge in Singapore.

He did so just hours after news broke of a Model S owner-importer having to fork out an additional $15,000 in taxes, based on its performance in a carbon emissions test. In several countries, the car qualifies for tax breaks.

In a tweet last Friday evening, Mr Musk said he had spoken to PM Lee, and "he said he would investigate the situation".


A spokesman from the Prime Minister's Office confirmed on Monday the conversation took place, and said various agencies were looking into it.

She said it was too early to say how things would pan out.

During his trip to the US early last month, PM Lee met leading tech honchos, including Mr Musk.

He wrote in a Facebook post: "We talked about new technologies and global trends, and Singapore's Smart Nation ideas. Elon Musk gave me a brief but exhilarating ride in the Tesla Model S P90D."

The P90D is a high-performance variant of the electric Model S, and is similar to the car that the LTA imposed a $15,000 surcharge on, the first electric car here to be given such a surcharge.

Various other electric or part-electric cars here are accorded tax rebates of up to $30,000.

Several countries also consider the Tesla Model S as environmentally-friendly, and grant its buyers various forms of tax breaks.

The owner of the Singapore car, Joe Nguyen, had posted online about the carbon surcharge, as well as the length of time (some seven months) it took for the vehicle to be approved and registered.

Mr Nguyen, 44, a senior vice-president with an Internet research firm, said it was " awesome" that Mr Musk had contacted PM Lee.

"I guess he met the prime minister a couple of weeks ago," he said. "Hopefully, something good comes out of it."

Member of Parliament Ong Teng Koon, who made a case for electric vehicles in Parliament in January, said given the need to reduce carbon emissions, Singapore should put greater focus on electric vehicles, since these vehicles typically have lower CO2 emissions (measured at the power station) than their conventional counterparts.

"From the government's perspective, this is a rare carbon emissions reduction policy where the abatement cost would be voluntarily borne by consumers... rather than being paid for by the government."

The LTA and Transport Ministry were not available for comment.

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapo...rce=Facebook&link_time=1457361292#xtor=CS1-10

 

[tonychat]

The LTA and Transport Ministry were not available for comment.

They got no fucking balls to comment because of doing stupid things.. That is why i stay away from sinkies.

 

[blissquek]

I applaud the PAP for never missing out an income opportunity. This is how we should close loopholes that endanger our tax base.

How about removing Estate duty..??? to favour the rich...

We had the biggest collection from Khoo Teck Puat...and thereafter...Ng Teng Fong, Mrs Lee and Mr. Lee need not pay...

Do u applaud to this..???

 

[blissquek]

Bottom line is that Sg is not a green or consciously-green country. While major cities in the world are promoting Formula-E racing to help the development of batteries in automobile use, Peesai is still barking up the F-1 lane, and lighting up thousands of megawatt street lamps just to host the event.

Cheers!

and lighting up thousands of megawatt street lamps just to host the event.

Who pay for this street lighting..??? .... Is it the ordinary peasants..???

 

[mojito]

How about removing Estate duty..??? to favour the rich...

We had the biggest collection from Khoo Teck Puat...and thereafter...Ng Teng Fong, Mrs Lee and Mr. Lee need not pay...

Do u applaud to this..???

Different. Estate duty is a one time thing. Loss of future income is not. You allow electric car to come in, it results in an avalanche of lost income like petrol taxes and electricity. Scheming viet probably wants to charge his car in jb where electricity is cheaper! This will give sinkies strange ideas and enbolden them to cheat the system. We can't have that.

 

[frenchbriefs]

this tesla technology is amazing,each car is like a individual power storage module,56 kwh battery.u can perform car to car fuel transfer while on the road or out stranded in the middle of nowhere.if theres a power outage,a tesla can serve as a backup power source.each car battery can probably power a hdb flat for 5 or 6 days or a bungalow for 1 or 2 days.

 

[ginfreely]

Different. Estate duty is a one time thing. Loss of future income is not. You allow electric car to come in, it results in an avalanche of lost income like petrol taxes and electricity. Scheming viet probably wants to charge his car in jb where electricity is cheaper! This will give sinkies strange ideas and enbolden them to cheat the system. We can't have that.

I saw this electric car charging in JB. Owned by their authority, IRDA.

http://www.thestar.com.my/metro/community/2015/01/23/irda-embarks-on-use-of-electric-cars/

 

[eErotica69]

They got no fucking balls to comment because of doing stupid things.. That is why i stay away from sinkies.

Nobody gives a fuck whether you stay away or not.

Feel free to fuck home too matland.

 

[Leongsam]

Nobody gives a fuck whether you stay away or not.

Feel free to fuck home too matland.

That's not true I care very much.

 

[yangtzejiang]

can always charge the cars with renewable or solar energy.of course singapore is not one of the first world countries to have embraced solar power yet.its only possible for electric vehicles to be more pollutive if u are in china where they use coal power plants to generate electricity or u live in singapore,where somehow metrics and special business models somehow electricity becomes very very expensive and pollutive to produce.just think about it,in a tesla electric car u can go 120 km on less than $2 worth of electricity in germany or united states,but thats no good in singapore and singapore doesnt want that.

LTA applied a grid factor of 0.5g CO2 per watt hour. this is the main factor that resulted in carbon tax. How did LTA arrive at this grid factor? this has not been explained by the authorities.

singapre does not have space for mega wind or solar farms, unless we buy swaths of land from ibrahim ismail.

get an electric scooter, its the next best thing to an electric car.

 

[congo9]

Different. Estate duty is a one time thing. Loss of future income is not. You allow electric car to come in, it results in an avalanche of lost income like petrol taxes and electricity. Scheming viet probably wants to charge his car in jb where electricity is cheaper! This will give sinkies strange ideas and enbolden them to cheat the system. We can't have that.

Hahaha.

I like this idea of charging up my car in JB. That's a very wonderful. Internet is a treasure trove of ideas.

 

[frenchbriefs]

LTA applied a grid factor of 0.5g CO2 per watt hour. this is the main factor that resulted in carbon tax. How did LTA arrive at this grid factor? this has not been explained by the authorities.

singapre does not have space for mega wind or solar farms, unless we buy swaths of land from ibrahim ismail.

get an electric scooter, its the next best thing to an electric car.

we can use our reservoirs,japan has these state of the art solar farms where thousands of solar panels float on top of their reserviours and lakes....claims it conserve water too by reducing evaporation from sunlight exposure.

 

[iluvgst]

the government makes loads of money from petrol tax. no way they will promote the use of electric cars here. whatever green talk is just lip service.