EV charging in Bukit Timah: where it is cheapest, and where the public chargers are

In Bukit Timah, the cheapest place to charge an electric car in public is a petrol station.

That is not how it usually works.

Petrol-station chargers are normally the dearest way to plug in, and most of Bukit Timah's are. The Shell stations on Upper Bukit Timah and Dunearn roads charge S$0.89 per kWh for a fast charge, among the highest rates anywhere.

But the Sinopec station on Bukit Timah Road, near the Sixth Avenue junction, runs a 100kW fast charger at S$0.60 per kWh, the lowest public rate in the district and one of the cheapest fast charges in Singapore.

Bukit Timah is Singapore's address for landed houses and condominiums, and not much else. There is very little public housing, and none of the cut-price industrial charging found further east or west.

So for the electric vehicle (EV) driver here, the public options are thin: a Sinopec and a handful of other petrol stations, the mall at King Albert Park, and two small pockets of HDB blocks. Here is where the public power is, and what it costs.

The cheapest charge: the Sinopec station, then the blocks

The standout is the Sinopec station on Bukit Timah Road, by the Sixth Avenue junction, where a 100kW charger runs at S$0.60 per kWh.

It is the cheapest public charge in the district, and a fast one.

After that it is the HDB blocks. Charge+ runs the cheapest, at S$0.63 per kWh at the Toh Yi Drive blocks behind Beauty World and the Farrer Road estate, with Strides YTL at S$0.68.

The one other low rate is at the Institution of Engineers building on Bukit Tinggi Road, off Dunearn Road, where Keppel Volt runs a slow charger at S$0.66 per kWh that is open to the public.

On a 40kWh top-up, that is about S$24 at the Sinopec station, near the S$25 at a block charger but well under the S$36 at a Shell fast charger on the same roads.

Charging overnight: Toh Yi Drive and Farrer Road

Bukit Timah has only two clusters of HDB blocks, and for residents without a home charger they are the overnight default. Both run around the clock, so the only question is whether a socket is open.

Toh Yi Drive, the estate behind Beauty World, is the one to watch, though even there the squeeze is mild.

Blk 11, where Charge+ runs six sockets at S$0.63, is the busiest.

On a weeknight it fills to about two-thirds by late evening, so a socket or two is usually still open.

It runs tighter at the weekend, down to its last socket or so overnight, so a weekend driver should aim to get there by about 10pm.

The same estate has quieter blocks to fall back on.

Blk 21 and the multi-storey carpark at Blk 1A, both Strides YTL at S$0.68, keep sockets open on most weeknights, and Blk 1A is nearly empty on a weekend evening.

The Farrer Road estate, off Bukit Timah Road at the Botanic Gardens end, is the easier of the two.

Blk 4 Queen's Road, with ten Charge+ sockets at S$0.63, keeps half a dozen open through the night, and the Empress Road and Farrer Road blocks nearby rarely fill.

For anyone without a block to go home to, the round-the-clock petrol stations are the overnight fallback, and the Sinopec station at S$0.60 is the cheapest way to charge at any hour.

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

When speed matters

The Sinopec station on Bukit Timah Road is the pick, its 100kW charger at S$0.60 per kWh easily the cheapest fast charge in the district.

For a fast charge farther up the hill, ComfortDelGro ENGIE runs a 120kW charger at S$0.76 per kWh at SIM Management House on Namly Avenue, and a 50kW one at S$0.78 at the Esso station on Bukit Timah Road.

The King Albert Park mall, known as KAP, has FastParkNCharge chargers at a flat S$0.70 per kWh, including a 50kW fast charger, useful for a stop while shopping.

The rest of the fast charging is the dear end.

The Shell stations charge S$0.80 on a slower charger and S$0.89 on the 50kW fast one, and Bukit Timah Shopping Centre has a 100kW SP Mobility charger at S$0.86.

The clubs, the condos and what is off-limits

A few chargers show up on the map here but are not public.

The Singapore Island Country Club off Sime Road and the Temasek Club on Rifle Range Road both run chargers on the SP Mobility app, but they sit inside members' gates, so a non-member cannot drive in to use them.

The same goes for the condominiums, of which Bukit Timah has many. Their chargers are for residents, not the public.

It is part of why the public network here is so thin: in an area built around private homes, most of the charging is private too.

Paying for it

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

The Sinopec station bills through the Sinopec app, Keppel Volt and FastParkNCharge run their own apps at the Bukit Tinggi building and KAP, and Charge+ and Strides YTL run the housing blocks between them. The petrol-station fast chargers use the Shell Recharge, ComfortDelGro ENGIE and SP Mobility apps.

So the practical move is to set up the app for the regular stop before the first charge, because most of these units will not start without it.

The full list

The public chargers in the area with a published rate are below, cheapest first, grouped by operator and rate. Members'-club, residents-only and tenant-only bays are left out, the housing blocks are grouped by operator, and chargers that report no rate are not listed.

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 Bukit Timah, the cheapest public charge is the Sinopec station on Bukit Timah Road, at S$0.60 per kWh on a 100kW charger, which is also the cheapest fast charge in the district.

Overnight, the public options are the two HDB pockets, and both are mostly easy.

The one to watch is Blk 11 at Toh Yi Drive, which runs down to its last socket at the weekend, so a weekend driver should get there by about 10pm or use the quieter Strides blocks nearby. The Farrer Road estate stays open most nights.

For everyone else, the round-the-clock petrol stations are the fallback, with the Sinopec station far cheaper than the rest.

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See real-time prices and availability for every public charger in Singapore on the revolt.sg charger map at https://revolt.sg/chargers. Check the latest before you drive.

For current rates across the whole island, see the Singapore EV Charging Price Index at https://revolt.sg/ev-charging/price-index.

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