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Motor Mouth: Bad time to be a car lover

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(FILES) The file photo taken on September 11, 2023 shows BYD electric cars waiting to be loaded on a ship stacked at the international container terminal of Taicang Port at Suzhou Port, in China’s eastern Jiangsu Province. China's BYD has overtaken US electric vehicle giant Tesla as the world's leading EV deliverer, according to recent sales figures. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT

The gloom begins with the homogenous design of electric vehicles, which tends to be bland, bulky and bulbous.

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SINGAPORE – Now is probably the worst time to be a car lover.

I am not talking about certificate of entitlement prices, as needlessly painful as they are. I am referring to the transition to electrification, which, like most transitions, spells uncertainty and disorientation.

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