Singapore EV Charging Price Index: Where the cheapest public charge really is

As of 18 July 2026.

SINGAPORE: The cheapest electric-car charger on the island will not let most drivers plug in.

The lowest rate anywhere — S$0.37 a kilowatt-hour, in the Schneider Electric building's car park in Kallang — is for the building's own staff, not the public. The next cheapest, a members' club at S$0.43 near Dover, is closed to outsiders just the same. And they are far from the only catch.

Strip out the staff bays, the condominium car parks kept for residents, the members-only clubs and the factory yards that quietly appear on charging maps, and the real floor for a public charge sits higher than the raw numbers suggest.

So this index counts only the chargers anyone can drive up to and use.

It answers three questions. What does the cheapest public charge cost, what should a driver expect to pay at each charging speed, and how does that compare with a tank of petrol. We've done our best to list only chargers that are open to the general public — if any here turn out not to be, or we've left out one that is, tell us at hello@revolt.sg.

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The cheapest public charge

The cheapest charge any driver can drive up to and use is at IKEA, where Charge+ runs alternating-current chargers at both the Alexandra and Tampines stores for S$0.45 a kilowatt-hour.

The handful of points that cost less are all closed to the public — staff and members' bays a visiting driver cannot use.

At S$0.45, topping up with 48 kilowatt-hours — about 300km of driving for a typical electric car — costs around S$22. The same charge at the islandwide median alternating-current rate of S$0.69 costs about S$33.

A petrol car covering that 300km is on another scale altogether.

At roughly 8 litres per 100km and around S$3.50 a litre, the fuel bill comes to about S$84 — close to four times the cost of the cheapest public charge, and about two and a half times the median home-speed rate.

Over a year of that 300km-a-month habit, charging at the cheapest public rate runs about S$750 below the petrol bill, as an illustration. But charging speed, and where the charging happens, decides how much of the saving a driver keeps.

What public charging costs

Public charging in Singapore splits cleanly into three speeds, and the price climbs with the power.

Slow and standard alternating current (7kW to 22kW) is the cheapest tier and the one most drivers use overnight or while parked for hours. The median public rate is S$0.69 a kilowatt-hour, and the cheapest public points sit around S$0.45 to S$0.55. Only about 7 per cent are priced at S$0.70 or above, and the dearest tops out at S$0.82.

Fast direct current (50kW to 150kW) is the tier that charges for speed. The median jumps to S$0.80 a kilowatt-hour, and about 87 per cent of these chargers are priced at S$0.70 or above. The cheapest public fast points, around S$0.58, are the exception rather than the rule.

Ultra-fast direct current (150kW and above) adds the most power but not always the highest price. The median is about S$0.73, a shade below the fast-DC median, because the newest high-output hubs at malls were built to compete. But the range still runs all the way to S$0.89.

The cheapest fast charge we can confirm is open to any driver is S$0.58, at Manulife Tower — a VOLT site in the office-tower car park at 8 Cross Street in the CBD, with eight 60kW ports. The big mall hubs are dearer, at S$0.60: Great World City, where Great Charge runs chargers up to 480kW, and Pasir Ris Mall at 180kW, with the Sinopec forecourt at Pasir Ris tying them. A few smaller commercial car parks list a shade less, but these are the cheapest fast charging a driver can count on being open to all.

Charging speed	Median public rate	Cheapest public	Typical ceiling
AC (7–22kW)	S$0.69	S$0.45	S$0.82
Fast DC (50–150kW)	S$0.80	S$0.58	S$0.89
Ultra-fast DC (150kW+)	S$0.73	S$0.60	S$0.89

About 80 per cent of the island's public charging points are typically open and available. So finding an open bay is rarely the problem. The price on it is.

The cheapest public chargers by region

The cheapest public charge shifts with where you are. The tables below list the five lowest public rates for each tier in each part of the island, as far as we can tell open to all. Some are small sites with only one or two ports, so check the live charger map for an open bay before driving down.

The chargers to avoid on price

At the top of the range, the petrol-station forecourt is the most expensive place to charge. Shell Recharge runs the bulk of the island's S$0.89 chargers, the dearest public rate on the network, at sites such as Shell Alexandra, Shell Boon Lay and Shell Telok Blangah. A fast or ultra-fast charge there can cost twice what the same energy would at IKEA.

The wider lesson is that direct current is where the money goes. The fast-DC median sits at S$0.80, against S$0.69 for slow alternating current. So a habit of topping up at the fast chargers near a mall, rather than charging slowly where the car is already parked, is the difference between the low end and the high end of an EV's running cost.

The state of the network

Singapore now has about 2,700 public charging locations and more than 11,300 charging points, run by 29 operators.

The largest names — SP Mobility, Charge+, Shell Recharge, ComfortDelGro ENGIE, Strides YTL and VOLT — set the rates most drivers see.

Prices have settled into a clear shape. Slow alternating current is cheap and plentiful, and the floor for a public charge is around S$0.45. Direct current is fast and dear, mostly S$0.70 or more, with only a few big hubs down near S$0.60.

For most drivers, the saving against petrol holds either way. It comes down to charging slow where the car already sits, and saving the fast chargers for the trips that need them.

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