EV charging in Sengkang and Punggol: where it is cheapest, and the blocks where overnight gets tight

The cheapest fast charge in Sengkang and Punggol is at a mall.

At Waterway Point, the Punggol mall above the MRT and bus interchange, Charge+ runs a 120kW direct-current charger at S$0.75 per kilowatt-hour (kWh).

That is a fast charger priced almost like a slow one, barely above the alternating-current rate at most blocks in the two towns.

But it is not the charger most residents reach for.

For the close to half a million people in these two young estates, the one that matters is at the foot of the block, and at many of them it is full by evening.

There is a different charger for each of the three things a Sengkang or Punggol driver usually wants: the cheapest top-up, a plug for overnight, and a fast charge in a hurry.

The cheapest charge: the Charge+ blocks, and a fast one at the mall

The lowest rate at a Housing and Development Board (HDB) block belongs to Charge+, which runs 7.4kW chargers at S$0.55 to S$0.65 per kWh across 11 blocks, four ports at each.

They are spread between the two towns, from Edgedale Plains and Punggol Walk in Punggol to Compassvale Bow and Anchorvale Crescent in Sengkang.

Next come the Shell chargers at Block 682 Edgedale Plains in Punggol, at S$0.66 per kWh, and at a cluster of Sengkang blocks, at S$0.67, a couple of cents under the S$0.69 that Shell charges at most other blocks.

After that the rates settle into a narrow band: Shell at S$0.69 across the bulk of the estate, and SP Mobility at S$0.70.

But the catch with all of these is the one that defines the area: they are the same block chargers that fill at night.

For a charge that does not depend on an open socket at the block, the answer is the fast charger at Waterway Point. At S$0.75 per kWh, its 120kW costs only a few cents more than a block charger, and is far quicker.

On a 40kWh top-up that rate works out to about S$30, against roughly S$28 at a block charger and S$36 at the most expensive fast charger in the two towns.

The catch there is that its two plugs are often hard to get.

Charging overnight: where the squeeze is

For residents without a home charger, the block chargers are the overnight default, and in these two towns they are busy.

More than half the block ports across Sengkang and Punggol are in use overnight, against about a quarter in the afternoon, the clear mark of an estate where residents come home and plug in.

That makes the area one of the tighter ones in Singapore to charge in after dark, the opposite of the older towns where the blocks sit mostly open.

The reason is in the estates themselves. These are among the island's youngest towns, with high electric-vehicle (EV) ownership, and most blocks carry only three or four sockets.

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has wired most of Singapore's HDB carparks and is aiming for 60,000 charging points island-wide by 2030. But in the busiest young estates, the cars are arriving faster than the chargers.

The blocks fill through the evening, and are busiest after midnight. The squeeze is widespread.

One of the tightest is the Northshore Drive stretch in northern Punggol, the newest of the waterfront blocks.

Block 413A fills to a hard full overnight and rarely frees up once taken, so a resident wanting one of its three sockets should plug in by about 6pm, weekday or weekend alike.

Block 421A nearby is much the same. It is near-full by about 7pm on a weeknight, and at times full even at 6pm.

Caught later, Block 411 Northshore Drive, the Northshore Trio carpark a short walk away, is often full too.

Across in Sengkang, the squeeze sits in the Compassvale, Anchorvale and Rivervale blocks.

Block 334 Anchorvale Crescent is one of the cheap Charge+ blocks, at S$0.65, which is part of why it fills. Its four sockets are usually all taken overnight, so plug in by about 6pm on a weeknight.

Block 217 Compassvale Drive runs close to full after midnight on a weeknight, so plug in by about 9pm. At the weekend it fills too, from about 9pm on a Sunday.

Block 180 Rivervale Crescent, the Rivervale Arc, fills to capacity by about 11pm on a weeknight, and earlier on a Sunday. So be home by about 8pm, or 7pm on a Sunday.

When these are taken, the larger carparks nearby stay open. Block 339 Anchorvale Road, at Anchorvale Village, has five sockets and is rarely more than a quarter full overnight, and Block 323 Sengkang East Way, with six, is much the same.

The Punggol blocks along Edgefield and Edgedale Plains, and the Matilda stretch on Sumang Lane, fill in the evenings too.

Block 670 Edgefield Plains is near full by about 11pm on a weeknight, earlier on a Sunday, so plug in by about 9pm on a weeknight, or 8pm on a Sunday.

Block 226 Sumang Lane, another Charge+ block at S$0.65, is taken through the early evening, so plug in by about 6pm on a weeknight, or by about 5pm at the weekend, when the late afternoon fills fast.

Block 261 Punggol Way, a seven-socket carpark a short walk away, is less than half full overnight.

The pattern across the area is the same. Because the chargers are so densely spread, a full block almost always has a looser one on the same street, so the answer to a taken socket is a short walk, not a drive across town.

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

For a resident who would rather not gamble on a socket, there are the paid fast chargers. The 120kW Shell unit at Block 217 Compassvale Drive and the hospital chargers all sit near-empty in the evenings. A short charge there costs more per kWh than the block, but it beats circling for a port that never opens.

When speed matters: fast, and mostly open

Sengkang and Punggol have more fast charging than the older account of these towns suggests, and most of it sits idle.

The most convenient and the cheapest is at Waterway Point, the Punggol mall above the MRT and bus interchange, where Charge+ runs a 120kW charger at S$0.75 per kWh, though it is often hard to get.

Two more sit at the neighbourhood malls: a 60kW Strides YTL unit at the SAFRA clubhouse in Punggol and a 100kW ComfortDelGro ENGIE unit at Rivervale Plaza in Sengkang, both at about S$0.76 to S$0.77 per kWh and both often hard to get.

Anchorvale Village, the newer neighbourhood mall on Anchorvale Road, has a 120kW Shell charger at S$0.77 to S$0.80 per kWh.

The slowest of the fast options is the Charge+ unit at Sengkang Grand Mall, which runs at just 30kW despite the direct-current label, so it adds range at not much more than a fast AC pace.

The most expensive are the Shell chargers at the Sengkang and Punggol petrol stations, at S$0.89 per kWh, and the SP Mobility fast chargers at Compass One, Rivervale Mall, Punggol Coast Mall and the SPC station on Sumang Link, also at S$0.89.

The malls and the institutions

Between the cheap block chargers and the fast direct-current units sit the malls and the larger buildings, priced for convenience.

Compass One, above the Sengkang MRT interchange, has SP Mobility chargers at S$0.81 per kWh on alternating current and S$0.89 on its 100kW fast unit, both often hard to get.

Rivervale Mall in Sengkang and the new Punggol Coast Mall, by the Punggol Coast MRT station, run the same SP Mobility rates.

Oasis Terraces, the Punggol neighbourhood mall, is a shade cheaper on alternating current at S$0.70.

The hospitals and campuses make up the rest. The Sengkang Community Hospital, the SKH Medical Centre, and the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) campus in the Punggol Digital District all carry SP Mobility chargers, at S$0.75 on alternating current and S$0.84 on their fast units.

None of these is the cheapest way to charge, and most make sense only for a driver already parked there for an errand, a meal or an appointment.

Paying for it

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

Shell Recharge now runs about half of the block chargers in both towns and takes payment through its own app. SP Mobility covers the other large share of blocks, the malls and the campuses, through the SP app.

Charge+ runs the cheapest blocks, at S$0.55 to S$0.65, and the fast charger at Waterway Point. ComfortDelGro ENGIE and Strides YTL each run their own app for the chargers at Rivervale Plaza and the SAFRA clubhouse.

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 Sengkang and Punggol that shows a rate is below, cheapest first. Private and residents-only bays are left out, and the per-block chargers are grouped by operator.

Prices and availability are as of 16 October 2026 and can change, so check the live map before driving.

The upshot

For a driver in Sengkang or Punggol, the cheapest everyday charge is one of the Charge+ blocks at S$0.55 to S$0.65, and the cheapest quick one is the 120kW charger at Waterway Point at S$0.75, above the Punggol MRT station.

The overnight charge is the one to plan, because these are tight estates after dark.

At the busiest blocks, on the Northshore Drive stretch and in the Compassvale, Anchorvale and Rivervale clusters, plug in by about 6pm on a weeknight, or walk to a larger carpark nearby such as Block 339 Anchorvale Road or Block 261 Punggol Way, which keep sockets open all 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.

EV charging guides by area: Ang Mo Kio and Bishan, Bedok and Tanah Merah, Bukit Timah, CBD and Tanjong Pagar, Clementi, East Coast, Marine Parade and Joo Chiat, Jurong East and Boon Lay, One-North and Buona Vista, Orchard and Somerset, Paya Lebar and Geylang, Queenstown, Redhill and Alexandra, River Valley, Great World City and Tiong Bahru, Tampines, Toa Payoh and Novena, Woodlands and Admiralty, and Yishun and Sembawang.

Prices checked 16 October 2026. Sources: LTA, revolt.sg, and crowd sourced from revolt.sg users.

Photo, cropped: “Punggol Park Connector, 18 Dec 2021 - 1” by Nigos, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.