The new rules take immediate effect, and will apply for vehicles registered, converted, or transferred from individuals to businesses as private hire cars.
Commuters can look forward to the opening of stage four of the TEL in the first half of this year, according to Acting Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat.
500 units of the electric supermini (which has a WLTP-rated range of 337km) are in the pipeline, out of which 200 are set to hit our streets by year-end.
Around 79,000 people worked with matching platform companies in 2020. An advisory committee by MOM will now look into strengthening protections for them.
