About Super Ice Cream Truck — Singapore's Heritage Vehicle Fleet

Tobias Peng founded Scoopy’s & Cream in 2008 with a single, quietly radical decision: he restored his first Volkswagen Kombi rather than buying something new. That instinct — that the most sustainable vehicle is the one that already exists — has grown into Singapore’s largest restored heritage fleet, and into something larger still.

For most of the last two decades, the carbon cost of a brand event in Singapore has been invisible. A pop-up goes up, a booth is built, a campaign runs for a weekend, and the whole thing is thrown away — with no one able to say what it cost the planet. Tobias has spent 15+ years proving there is a better way, and now a way to measure it. Every vehicle in his fleet is a restored, second-life classic that avoids the carbon of manufacturing something new — including a new electric one, once you count the battery — set against an industry that builds and discards a fresh installation for every job.

From this financial year, that invisible cost stops being optional to know. Singapore’s largest listed brands must now report the emissions of their suppliers — the activations they commission included — and almost no one in experiential marketing can hand them a number. That is the gap Tobias set out to close. The result is Green Passport, a carbon-measurement tool now in beta testing on live activations, built to turn what his fleet already does into a figure a corporate sustainability team can actually file.

He is not an offsets salesman, and he is careful to say so. His argument is simpler and harder to dispute: reduce first, then prove the reduction. Restore instead of rebuild. Reuse instead of replace. Measure what you saved, and let the number speak. It is a calm, factual case — closer to a nature documentary than a sales pitch — and it has quietly made him one of the people Singapore’s brands turn to when they need their sustainability story to be real rather than merely stated.

Before all of this, Tobias began his career in aviation. Today his work spans a restored heritage fleet, a sister compliance brand in Scoopy’s & Cream (undergoing ISO 20121 certification with TÜV SÜD and MICE Sustainability Certification through SACEOS), and a measurement tool in Green Passport — one connected mission to make sustainable events something you can see, touch, and prove.

As featured in The Straits Times: “In a classic of his own”