EV charging in East Coast, Marine Parade and Joo Chiat: where it is cheapest, and where the public chargers are

Most of this stretch of the east coast charges at home.

Behind Katong, Joo Chiat and Amber Road sit the condominiums and landed houses that make up much of the district, and a car there mostly plugs in at its own carpark overnight.

So the public network here is thinner than in the heartland towns, and it splits cleanly in two.

The cheap chargers are at the old guard: a 1980s shopping centre, a converted cinema and the Housing and Development Board (HDB) blocks down by Tanjong Rhu.

The dear ones are at the new malls of Katong, where a fast charge costs among the most in the area.

For the electric vehicle (EV) driver who cannot charge at home, here is where the public power is, and what it costs.

The cheapest charge: the old mall, and the blocks

The lowest public rate in the area is at Roxy Square, the 1980s shopping centre on East Coast Road, where Novowatt runs a 22kW charger at S$0.58 per kWh.

It is a single pair of chargers at an ageing mall, so it is more a useful quirk than a network, but the rate is the lowest a non-resident can get.

The cheaper feed rates below it, at S$0.50 to S$0.57, are all inside condominiums and a members' club, open only to residents and members, so they are left out here.

The cheapest charger most drivers can actually use is Charge+, at S$0.63 per kWh, at four spots: the HDB blocks at Kampong Kayu and Kampong Arang by Tanjong Rhu, and the carpark of The Odeon Katong on East Coast Road.

After that the HDB blocks set the rate. Strides YTL runs the cheapest of them at S$0.68 per kWh, with SP Mobility and ComfortDelGro ENGIE at S$0.70, across the Marine Parade and Marine Terrace estates.

On a 40kWh top-up, the S$0.58 charger works out to about S$23, against roughly S$28 at a block charger and S$34 at the dearest fast charger in the area.

Charging overnight: easy, except in Marine Terrace

For the residents who do depend on a public charger, mostly those in the Marine Parade and Marine Terrace flats rather than the private estates, the block chargers are the overnight default, and most of them are easy.

About a quarter of the block ports across the area are in use overnight, against roughly a sixth by day, so on most streets a late arrival still finds a plug.

The exception is the cluster around Marine Terrace and Marine Crescent, where the blocks carry only three sockets each and fill up at night.

Block 5 to 8 Marine Terrace is the tightest. Its three sockets are usually all taken overnight on a weeknight, so a resident should plug in by about 9pm, or 10pm at the weekend, when it fills more slowly.

Block 35A Marine Crescent, the multi-storey carpark, runs much the same on a weeknight and is full by late evening, so plug in by about 9pm. At the weekend it is busy from late afternoon, so the move is to be back by about 6pm.

Block 16A Marine Terrace fills earlier on a weeknight, so plug in by about 7pm there, though it is easier at the weekend, with a socket usually open until about 11pm.

When these are full, the fix is a short walk to Block 51 Marine Terrace, where Strides YTL runs three sockets at S$0.68 and they are open almost every night. For the Marine Crescent blocks, Block 47A is the quiet equivalent, at S$0.70.

Away from that cluster, the overnight charge is easy. The blocks at Tanjong Rhu, Kampong Arang and Haig Road, and along Marine Drive, typically have sockets to spare all night.

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

When speed matters: the malls, and a fast charger at the blocks

There is no cut-price fast charging here of the kind found in the industrial estates further north, but the area is small and a fast charger is rarely far.

The quickest is at Marine Terrace, where Strides YTL runs a 160kW direct-current charger at S$0.76 per kWh right at the HDB blocks, which is unusually fast for an estate carpark.

The cheapest fast option is at Parkway Parade, the big Marine Parade mall, where VOLT charges S$0.74 per kWh, though only at 30kW, so it is barely quicker than a fast alternating-current charger.

The Esso station on East Coast Road runs a 120kW ComfortDelGro ENGIE charger at S$0.78, the middle of the range.

The dearest fast charging is at the Katong malls. SP Mobility runs its chargers at i12 Katong, Katong V and KINEX at S$0.86 per kWh, the highest rate in the area, which is the inversion of the usual advice: the newest, most convenient chargers are the most expensive.

The malls and the mid-market

For a driver already parked at a mall, the rates vary more than the short distances between them suggest.

Parkway Parade is the value pick, with VOLT alternating-current chargers at S$0.66 per kWh, cheaper than most of the area's HDB blocks.

i12 Katong, Katong V and KINEX, all run by SP Mobility, sit at the top, at S$0.77 per kWh on alternating current and S$0.86 on their fast chargers.

PLQ3, by the Paya Lebar end of Tanjong Katong, is a shade cheaper at S$0.72 on alternating current and S$0.81 on its fast charger.

ComfortDelGro ENGIE also runs the public chargers at the East Coast Park carparks, along with off-street chargers on Joo Chiat Road and at Tembeling Road, all at S$0.70 per kWh, which is handy for a charge while at the beach.

None of these is the cheapest way to charge, and they make sense mainly for a driver already there for the shops, the park or a meal.

Paying for it

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

Strides YTL, ComfortDelGro ENGIE and SP Mobility run most of the HDB block chargers between them, each through its own app. Charge+ covers the cheapest usable chargers, at the Tanjong Rhu blocks and The Odeon Katong.

VOLT runs Parkway Parade and Novowatt the Roxy Square charger, each on its own network.

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 the area with a published rate is below, cheapest first. Condominium and members-only bays are left out, and the per-block chargers are grouped by operator. Frankel, Siglap and Upper East Coast are in the Bedok and Tanah Merah guide.

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 this part of the east coast, most homes charge in their own carpark, and the public network is for the HDB residents and the visitors.

The cheapest public charge is the old Roxy Square mall at S$0.58, or one of the Charge+ chargers at S$0.63, and the dearest is the new Katong malls at S$0.86.

For an everyday charge without hunting, Parkway Parade is the pick, with VOLT chargers at S$0.66 per kWh and usually a bay open.

Overnight is easy on most blocks. The one pocket to plan around is Marine Terrace and Marine Crescent, where a resident should plug in by about 9pm on a weeknight, or walk to Block 51 Marine Terrace, which keeps sockets open almost every night.

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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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