EV charging in Queenstown, Redhill and Alexandra: where it is cheapest, and the blocks where overnight gets tight

The cheapest charging in Queenstown, Redhill and Alexandra is along one stretch of Alexandra Road, at the malls.

IKEA Alexandra has the lowest rate in the area, where Charge+ runs three 22kW bays at S$0.45 per kWh.

A few doors down, Alexandra Central charges S$0.50 and Anchorpoint S$0.54, so the three cheapest places to plug in sit within walking distance of each other on the same road.

All three undercut every HDB block in the three towns, where charging runs S$0.63 to S$0.70.

For residents without a home charger, that block is still the overnight default, and the squeeze is real on a cluster of them in the Dawson estate and old Queenstown.

For a fast charge, the cheapest is a 100kW charger tucked in the Redhill industrial pocket, well below the malls and petrol stations.

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

The cheapest charge: the Alexandra Road malls

The cheap power here is retail power, on the Alexandra Road strip between Queensway and Redhill.

IKEA Alexandra is the cheapest, at S$0.45 per kWh on three Charge+ bays in its carpark — slow 22kW alternating current, but a rate to charge at while shopping. Alexandra Central next door runs an Airetec bay at S$0.50, and Anchorpoint a single charger at S$0.54, though that one adds a steep S$1 a minute once the car is full.

Those three are cheaper than anything at a block.

At the blocks, the lowest rate is Charge+, at S$0.63 per kWh, on the slow bays at carparks across Stirling Road, Mei Ling Street, the Dawson estate, Lengkok Bahru, Redhill and Bukit Merah. Strides YTL runs others at S$0.68, and ComfortDelGro ENGIE at S$0.70. Which one a resident gets is decided by whichever operator wired the carpark.

One office block beats the blocks on price: APEX @ Henderson, where Volt charges S$0.60 per kWh on two 22kW bays.

On a 40kWh top-up, the gap is modest in cash: about S$18 at IKEA, S$25 at a Charge+ block and S$28 at a ComfortDelGro ENGIE one.

Charging overnight: where the squeeze is

For residents without a home charger, the block chargers are the overnight default, and across these towns most have a socket open late.

The squeeze is concentrated in two places: the Dawson estate, the cluster of tall new blocks off Commonwealth and Margaret Drive, and the older Queenstown blocks around Tanglin Halt and Mei Ling Street.

The earliest to fill is Skyville, at Block 85 Dawson Road. Its three ComfortDelGro ENGIE sockets are usually down to the last by about 6pm, weekday or weekend, and stay tight all evening — one to reach straight after work, or to leave alone.

The tightest of the old blocks is Block 88 Tanglin Halt Road, also three sockets, down to its last by about 10pm on a weeknight and near full after. So plug in by 9pm. At the weekend it holds a socket later. The Mei Ling Street multi-storey at Block 161A is a short walk away and keeps 10 Charge+ bays, several open all night, at the lower S$0.63 rate.

Block 56/57 Lengkok Bahru, in Redhill, is the sharpest of the cheap Charge+ blocks, down to a socket or two by about 8pm on a weeknight, an hour or two later at the weekend. Block 64 Lengkok Bahru, along the same street, has eight Charge+ bays at the same rate and is usually open.

The rest of the Dawson, Mei Ling and Redhill blocks fill more gently through the evening, most down to their last socket by about 10pm on a weeknight and looser at the weekend.

When they fill, the Strathmore Avenue and Dawson Road multi-storey carparks nearby keep bays open at the same rate.

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

Two pockets that look busy by day are the opposite of a problem at night. The Bukit Merah Central blocks and Alexandra Village fill for the market and hawker centre in the daytime, then sit open through the night, so a late driver in Bukit Merah can usually find a socket there.

When speed matters: fast charging

The cheapest fast charge is not at a mall or a petrol station but in the Redhill industrial pocket off Alexandra Road.

EV Mobility runs a 100kW direct-current charger at the One@Redhill building, on Jalan Kilang Barat, at S$0.66 per kWh — the lowest fast rate in the area, usually with an open bay. Go by City Energy has a 60kW charger nearby at the Acetech Centre, at S$0.72.

At a block, Charge+ runs a 160kW charger at S$0.73 at Block 78/81 Redhill Lane, and Volt a 60kW unit at S$0.74 at the Connection One blocks on Jalan Bukit Merah.

The dearest fast power is at the Alexandra Road forecourts and the office and industrial towers. Shell charges up to S$0.89 per kWh at its Alexandra Road station, and SP Mobility S$0.81 to S$0.86 at One Commonwealth, the car showrooms and the Leng Kee and Pacific Tech buildings.

For a driver who wants speed and a low rate, the One@Redhill charger is the pick, with the Charge+ unit at Redhill Lane the fallback.

The malls, hospitals and offices

Beyond the three cheap malls, the convenience charging is at the institutions and towers, and none of it is the cheapest way to charge.

Alexandra Hospital and the Alexandra Technopark offices run SP Mobility bays at S$0.72 per kWh. The Alexandra Retail Centre, by the bus interchange, has Charge+ chargers at S$0.67 and a 120kW fast unit at S$0.77.

Most of these make sense only for a driver already parked there for an appointment, the shops or work.

Paying for it

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

Charge+ runs the cheapest block bays and the IKEA chargers, and takes payment through its own app. Strides YTL and ComfortDelGro ENGIE cover the other blocks, and SP Mobility the hospital, the offices and the showrooms.

EV Mobility runs the cheap fast charger at One@Redhill, Go by City Energy the Acetech charger, and Volt, Airetec and MNL the APEX, Alexandra Central and Anchorpoint bays.

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 Queenstown, Redhill, Alexandra and Bukit Merah with a published rate is below, cheapest first. The per-block chargers are grouped by operator.

Prices and availability are as of 19 June 2026 and can change, so check the live map before driving.

The upshot

For a driver in Queenstown, Redhill or Alexandra, the cheapest charge is the Alexandra Road retail strip, led by IKEA at S$0.45 — the sensible default for an unhurried top-up while parked. When speed matters, the cheapest fast charge is the EV Mobility 100kW unit at One@Redhill, at S$0.66.

Overnight is easy on most blocks and tight on a few. Skyville at Block 85 Dawson Road is down to its last socket by about 6pm any night, and Block 88 Tanglin Halt Road by about 10pm on a weeknight, so the answer at the tight blocks is to get home early or use a nearby multi-storey carpark.

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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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