SG: BMW Group Asia and CapitaCommercial Trust forges sustainability partnership
BMW Group Asia and CapitaCommercial Trust announced that they are entering into a partnership focused on sustainability and innovation, starting with plans to jointly install electric vehicle public charging stations at several CapitaCommercial Trust properties within Singapore’s Central Business District. The target is to install public charging stations at the following five locations and to commence operations as early as end 2014:
- Capital Tower
- Six Battery Road
- One George Street
- Raffles City Singapore
- CapitaGreen
The planned public charging locations will be made accessible to any electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid driver who is registered with Greenlots, the public charging service provider for BMW i. The venues will be equipped with AC- charging stations that can provide electric cars with a quick charge-up over meals or meetings, as well as a full-charge if the electric vehicle owner has an office in the building.
A fully-charged all-electric BMW i3 can travel up to about 150km of travelling range. Coupled with a petrol-powered range extender, the range can be doubled to as much as 300km which is well beyond the average Singaporean-driving distance of about 55km per day (according to statistics by the Land Transport Authority).
“We are extremely delighted to be collaborating with a sustainability-minded partner like CapitaCommercial Trust on this occasion. Through our combined efforts, we are now a step closer to realising our sustainable electric mobility vision in Singapore.” said Mr. Ramesh Divyanathan, Director of Sales Channel Development and Customer Relations, BMW Group Asia.
Ms. Lynette Leong, Chief Executive Officer of CapitaCommercial Trust Management Limited (CCTML) said: “We are excited about this partnership as BMW Group Asia and CCT are very much aligned in terms of our commitment to sustainability and strong customer focus. It is easy to envisage electric mobility as part and parcel of our lives in the not-too-distant future. Through this first step of introducing electric charging stations at five of our office properties, we are offering this added convenience to tenants who are first movers in the use of electric vehicles. We look forward to more sustainability-themed collaborations with BMW Group Asia in the near future for the benefit of our tenants and the general public.”
The BMW Group is the only car company in the world to have been awarded the world’s most sustainable automotive company for nine years since 2005, while CapitaLand retained its listing in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the third consecutive year and the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index (DJSI Asia Pacific) for the fifth time this year. CapitaLand was also the first Singapore real estate company to be listed in the DJSI Asia Pacific when the index was launched in 2009.
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