EV charging in River Valley, Great World City and Tiong Bahru: where it is cheapest, and where the public chargers are

Singapore's largest single public charging hub is not on Orchard Road. It is one turn south, at Great World.

Great World City runs more than 50 public chargers, at S$0.55 per kWh on a slow charger and S$0.60 on a 480kW ultra-rapid one that adds range in minutes, and because the hub is so big it usually has a bay open.

A few hundred metres north, most of the big Orchard malls charge S$0.77 to S$0.87 for the same electricity.

The cheap, fast power is at Great World and along Havelock Road, and the overnight charge is at the Tiong Bahru blocks.

For the electric vehicle (EV) driver in River Valley, Tiong Bahru and the streets between them, here is where the public power is, and what it costs.

The cheapest charge: Great World, and Havelock Road

The standout is Great World City, where Great Charge runs 24 alternating-current chargers at S$0.55 per kWh and 32 fast ones at S$0.60.

Even its 480kW ultra-rapid chargers, at S$0.60, undercut what the Orchard malls charge for a slow top-up.

Cheaper still, but smaller, is the Furama Riverfront hotel on Havelock Road, where VOLT charges S$0.49 per kWh on alternating current and S$0.54 on its single fast charger.

But after those it is the housing blocks, where most of Tiong Bahru charges. Charge+ runs the cheapest, at S$0.63 per kWh across the Tiong Bahru, Bukit Ho Swee and Kim Tian estates, with Strides YTL at S$0.68 and ComfortDelGro ENGIE at S$0.70.

On a 40kWh top-up, the gap is real: about S$22 at Great World, against roughly S$25 at a block charger and about S$36 at the Shell station on Havelock Road.

Charging overnight: the Tiong Bahru blocks

For residents without a home charger, the Tiong Bahru blocks are the overnight default, and most of them are easy. The estate has more chargers than most, and the old low-rise blocks around Seng Poh and Tiong Poh are busier by day, from the hawker and market crowd, than at night.

These block chargers run around the clock, so the only question is whether a socket is available.

At the busiest blocks a socket missed in the evening tends to stay missed, because a driver who plugs in for the night leaves the car until morning.

But the squeeze is on a few of the newer mid-rise blocks.

Blk 26 Jalan Membina, where Strides YTL runs three sockets at S$0.68, is among the tightest on a weeknight, usually down to its last socket by about 10pm. It is much easier at the weekend.

Blk 8C Boon Tiong Road, on the Boon Tiong Arcadia estate, has only two Charge+ sockets at S$0.63, so one is usually gone by about 7pm any evening.

The Kim Tian Road blocks flip the other way, filling at the weekend rather than on a weeknight. Blk 127, the Kim Tian Green carpark, runs about half full on a weeknight evening but is down to its last socket by about 9pm on a Saturday. Blk 120B at Kim Tian Place is quieter, comfortable on a weeknight and busier only late on a Saturday, from about 10pm, though it usually still has a socket open. Blk 125A and Blk 119A on the same road are quieter again, and usually keep a socket open either way.

When these are full, the fix is a short walk to a quieter, cheaper block: Blk 18A Jalan Membina runs six Charge+ sockets at S$0.63 and is rarely more than a quarter taken, and Blk 22 and Blk 96 Havelock Road sit nearly empty overnight.

Away from those, the Havelock Road and Beo Crescent blocks keep sockets open late most nights.

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

Of the Great World hub's 32 fast chargers, 20 run at 480kW, among the fastest public chargers in Singapore, at S$0.60 per kWh, still among the cheapest fast rates anywhere.

For a fast charge nearer the river, Charge+ runs 120kW chargers at S$0.73 per kWh at Tiong Bahru Plaza and at UE Square on River Valley Road.

The Shell station on Havelock Road has a 50kW charger at S$0.89, the dearest fast option here and worth it only in a hurry.

The hospitals, hotels and the dearer bays

Around the Singapore General Hospital campus at Outram, SP Mobility runs a large set of chargers at S$0.77 per kWh, handy for a visit and usually with a bay open.

The riverside hotels and offices are the mid-market: Copthorne King's, the Waterfront Plaza and King's Centre on Havelock Road, and Studio M at Robertson Quay, run SP Mobility chargers at S$0.72 per kWh.

Great World City also keeps a few older SP Mobility bays at S$0.77 on alternating current and S$0.86 on the fast charger, but there is little reason to use them when the Great Charge hub in the same carpark is cheaper.

Paying for it

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

Great Charge runs the Great World hub on its own app, VOLT the Furama Riverfront chargers, and Charge+, Strides YTL and ComfortDelGro ENGIE the Tiong Bahru blocks between them.

So the practical move is to set up Great Charge's app if Great World is the regular stop, and the relevant block app for an overnight 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. Private 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 River Valley and Tiong Bahru, the cheap, fast power is at Great World City, at S$0.55 per kWh on a slow charger and S$0.60 on a 480kW ultra-rapid one, and the hub is large enough that a bay is usually open.

The single cheapest rate is the Furama Riverfront on Havelock Road, at S$0.49 per kWh.

Overnight, most of Tiong Bahru is easy. The squeeze is on a few newer blocks: get to Blk 26 Jalan Membina before about 10pm on a weeknight, or the Kim Tian Road blocks before about 9pm at the weekend, or use the quieter Blk 18A Jalan Membina nearby.

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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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