EV charging in Ang Mo Kio and Bishan: where it is cheapest, and the blocks where overnight gets tight

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The cheapest charge in Ang Mo Kio and Bishan is not at a mall or an HDB block, but a fast charger on the forecourt of a multinational's regional headquarters.

At the Robert Bosch building on Bishan Street 21, EVOne runs a 120kW direct-current charger at S$0.53 per kWh, usually with an open bay.

That makes it cheaper than every HDB block in the two towns, and cheaper than all but a couple of the slow chargers.

The catch is that it is two ports at a corporate office on the Bishan industrial fringe, a drive from the estates rather than a walk from home.

For most drivers in these two towns, charging is otherwise a flat and easy business. The heartland blocks are priced within a cent or two of each other.

Overnight is mostly easy too, the mark of a mature town, with the squeeze confined to a handful of blocks.

There is a different charger for the cheapest top-up, the overnight plug and the fast charge in a hurry.

The cheapest charge: the industrial edge, then the blocks

The cheap power in these towns sits out on the edges, not in the residential centre. It is in the car workshops and industrial buildings of Sin Ming, Jalan Pemimpin and the Ang Mo Kio industrial estate.

After the Bosch charger comes Gain City, the electronics and furniture megastore in the Ang Mo Kio industrial estate. EV Mobility runs a 120kW charger there at S$0.66 per kWh, across four ports.

It is the more useful of the two for most people. There are four bays rather than two, a big-box store to wait in, and a rate still cheaper than any block.

Two industrial buildings on the Sin Ming and Jalan Pemimpin fringe go lower still on slow charging. The AMtech Building and M38 run 22kW alternating-current chargers at about S$0.55 per kWh. But they are two-port units at the doorsteps of workshops, of use mainly to a driver already parked nearby.

At a block, the lowest rate belongs to Charge+. It runs 7.4kW chargers at S$0.63 per kWh at two Ang Mo Kio carparks: Block 260 Ang Mo Kio Street 21, the Kebun Baru Court carpark, and the Block 323A multi-storey carpark on Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3.

Everywhere else the blocks settle into a narrow band. Shell runs most of them at S$0.69 per kWh, with ComfortDelGro ENGIE and SP Mobility at S$0.70. The charger at home is usually decided by whichever operator wired the carpark, not by price.

On a 40kWh top-up, the gap is real but modest: about S$21 at the Bosch charger, S$26 at Gain City and S$28 at a Shell block, against about S$36 at the dearest fast charger in the two towns.

Charging overnight: where the squeeze is

For residents without a home charger, the block chargers are the overnight default, and in Ang Mo Kio and Bishan they are mostly a soft target.

Across the two towns' blocks, about a quarter of the ports are in use overnight, against roughly a sixth in the afternoon — the gentle version of the residential pattern, where some drivers come home and plug in but most sockets stay open.

On almost any street a resident can come home late and still find a plug. The squeeze is confined to a handful of blocks.

The one block that genuinely fills is Block 290A Bishan Street 24. Its three ComfortDelGro ENGIE sockets are usually all taken overnight, gone on three nights in four.

It is three-quarters full by early evening and effectively full from about 9pm, weekday or weekend. So plug in by about 8pm. Caught later, a driver can walk to Block 273 Bishan Street 24, at the same rate and with about half its sockets open, or to the six-socket carpark at Block 282, the Bishan North Shopping Mall, a cent cheaper and almost always open.

The next to fill are the two cheapest blocks, and they fill because they are cheap.

The Charge+ chargers at Block 260 Ang Mo Kio Street 21, the Kebun Baru Court carpark, and Block 323A on Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3, both at S$0.63, draw drivers from the surrounding streets.

Block 260 is the sharper of the two on a weeknight, down to its last socket by about 9pm and holding there all night. So plug in by then.

At the weekend it stays open, with bays to spare even at 9pm, so a driver can come home close to midnight and still expect one.

Caught late on a weeknight, Block 254 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 4, the Kebun Baru View carpark a short walk away, almost always has a socket, though at S$0.69 it gives up the cheap rate.

Block 323A fills later and more slowly, down to its last socket or two by about 11pm either day. When it is full, the multi-storey carpark at Block 347A is a short walk away, at S$0.70 rather than S$0.63.

A few Shell blocks tighten late rather than fill outright: Block 448A Bright Hill Drive, Block 455 Ang Mo Kio Street 44 and Block 613A Ang Mo Kio Avenue 4 are each down to their last socket by about 10pm on a weeknight.

Block 613A goes earlier at the weekend, by about 8pm, while the other two hold to roughly the same hour.

Each has a looser six-socket carpark a short walk away at the same S$0.69 rate, among them Block 465 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10 and Block 605 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 4, which keep sockets open all night.

The pattern across the area is the same. Because the blocks are so densely wired, a full one almost always has a quieter one on the next street, so the answer to a taken socket is a short walk, not a drive.

None of this is worth guessing at from home. The revolt.sg charger map shows which block has an open port right now.

For a resident who would rather not gamble on a socket, the paid fast chargers sit near-empty in the evenings: the Gain City and Bosch chargers, and the mall and workshop units, all keep open bays after dark.

When speed matters: fast, and mostly open

Ang Mo Kio and Bishan have more fast charging than their heartland reputation suggests, most of it out in the Sin Ming car belt, and most of it sits idle.

The cheapest is the Bosch charger at S$0.53 per kWh, for a driver who can get to Bishan Street 21, and the next is Gain City at S$0.66, both 120kW.

After them, Charge+ runs 120kW chargers at S$0.73 per kWh at Midview City, at AMK Autopoint, and at Nanyang Polytechnic, all usually with an open bay. The first two sit in the Sin Ming and Ang Mo Kio motor belt.

ComfortDelGro ENGIE covers the Sin Ming car belt at S$0.76 per kWh, on its fast chargers at Sin Ming AutoCity and Sin Ming Autocare. SP Mobility runs the dearest, at S$0.81 to S$0.86, at Junction 8, the polytechnics and colleges, and the petrol stations.

The priciest power is at the Shell stations. Their fast chargers at a couple of blocks and at the Upper Thomson forecourts run up to S$0.89.

The malls and the institutions

The biggest mall in the two towns does not charge cars.

AMK Hub, by the Ang Mo Kio MRT and bus interchange, has two Volt chargers in its basement carpark at S$0.66 per kWh, the cheapest mall charging in the two towns. The catch is an idling fee of S$0.50 a minute by day, charged once the car is full, after a 20-minute grace.

Junction 8 in Bishan is dearer, where SP Mobility runs chargers at S$0.77 per kWh on alternating current and S$0.86 on its 50kW fast unit, usually with an open bay.

The rest of the convenience charging is at the institutions: Nanyang Polytechnic and ITE College Central, the BCA Academy on Braddell Road, and Mount Alvernia Hospital on Thomson. The Singapore Island Country Club has chargers too, but they are for members and guests, not the public.

None of these is the cheapest way to charge, and most make sense only for a driver already parked there for a class, an appointment or a round.

Paying for it

There is no single tap-and-go card across the networks, so the app matters.

Shell Recharge runs most of the block chargers in both towns and takes payment through its own app. ComfortDelGro ENGIE covers the other large share of blocks and the Sin Ming workshops, and SP Mobility the Bishan and Sin Ming blocks, Junction 8 and the institutions.

Charge+ runs the two cheapest blocks, at S$0.63, and the fast chargers in the motor belt. EV Mobility runs the Gain City chargers, and EVOne the Bosch charger, billed through the SP app.

The practical move is to set up the app for whichever charger is the regular one before the first visit, because most of these units will not start without it.

The full list

Every public charger in Ang Mo Kio and Bishan with a published rate is below, cheapest first. Private and residents-only bays are left out, and the per-block chargers are grouped by operator.

Prices and availability are as of 18 June 2026 and can change, so check the live map before driving.

The upshot

For a driver in Ang Mo Kio or Bishan, the cheapest charge is the 120kW Bosch charger at S$0.53 on Bishan Street 21, and the cheapest convenient one is the four-bay Gain City charger at S$0.66.

Overnight charging is easy on most blocks and tight on only a few, so the answer there is to get home early or walk a street over. Block 290A Bishan Street 24 is full by about 9pm any night, and the cheap Charge+ block at Kebun Baru Court not far behind on a weeknight, though that one stays open late at the weekend.

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