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According to foreign media reports, Singapore announced plans to phase out fossil fuel vehicles by 2040, and will take incentives to encourage the use of and other clean energy vehicles. Incentives include a maximum of S $20000 and an increased investment budget for. The goal is to increase the number of charging stations from about 1600 to 28000 by 2030. "The Singaporean government is making great efforts to promote electric vehicles and incline its policies in this direction because it is the most promising technology," said Hong swee Keat, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, in a speech on February 18. In January 2019, Elon Musk, chief executive, criticized Singapore for being slow in accepting and deploying electric vehicles, saying in a January tweet that the government "has not caught a cold.". In August of the same year, Singapore hit back at musk, saying that public transport can solve the global climate change problem better than driving a Tesla electric vehicle. At that time, masagos ZULKIFLI, Singapore's minister of environment and water resources, said in an interview with the media that Singapore had given priority to subway and bus travel, and the government was more interested in appropriate solutions to the climate problem than the lifestyle of "driving electric vehicles" as musk called it. It has to be said that so far, Singapore has been relatively slow in promoting the development of electric vehicles compared with other countries. But Singaporean government officials say that because of the short driving distance and strict state control over the purchase of cars, Singaporean cities are actually very suitable for electric vehicles. Europe, by contrast, was the first region in the world to propose a ban on fuel vehicles. As early as 2015, the Netherlands proposed to ban the sale of fuel vehicles as early as 2025. Later, Norway, Germany, France and other European countries also proposed to ban the sale of fuel vehicles, with time nodes ranging from 2025 to 2050. China has also begun to take action. In March last year, Hainan Province issued the "clean energy vehicle development plan", which stipulates that the province will completely prohibit the sale of fuel vehicles from 2030, becoming the first province in China to declare a ban on the sale of fuel vehicles. In August, the Ministry of industry and information technology further stated in the reply to the proposal No. 7936 of the second session of the 13th National People's Congress: China will support places where conditions permit to establish pilot fuel vehicle exclusion zones, and on the basis of success, make a comprehensive study and formulate a fuel vehicle exit schedule. Just a few days ago, the British government just announced that it would ban the sale of fuel vehicles five years earlier to 2035, and even expand to hybrid models.