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Singapore Says Musk's Electric Cars Are About 'Lifestyle,' Not Climate
- City-state is pushing people to choose trains, buses over cars
- ‘EVs must be a solution, not a lifestyle,’ Zulkifli says
Electric vehicle charging stations stand at the Tesla Inc. Supercharger station.
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Singapore has a message for Elon Musk: Taking mass transit is a better climate-change solution than tooling around in one of his Tesla Inc.’s electric vehicles.
The city-state, which has said its efforts to cope with climate change are as crucial as military defense, has prioritized greater use of its trains and buses, Masagos Zulkifli, minister for environment and water resources, said in an interview Wednesday. Musk has criticized the country for being slow to adopt EVs and said in a January tweet the government “has been unwelcome.”