EV charging in Yishun and Sembawang: where it is cheapest, and the blocks where overnight gets tight

The cheapest charge in Yishun and Sembawang is not at a mall or an HDB block, but in the visitor carpark of a hospital.

At Khoo Teck Puat Hospital and the Yishun Community Hospital beside it, both on Yishun Central, MNL runs 22kW chargers at S$0.55 per kWh, the lowest rate in the two towns.

For a faster charge the standout is newer and stranger: a 480kW hub on the edge of the Senoko industrial estate, the quickest charger in Singapore, where B'EV charges about S$0.58 per kWh.

Both are a drive from most homes, but both undercut the malls, where charging is dearest.

For the everyday charge the blocks are the default, with Shell running most of them at S$0.69 per kWh, ComfortDelGro ENGIE at S$0.70, and a cheaper Charge+ tier at S$0.63.

The overnight squeeze, where it bites, is at those blocks.

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

The cheapest charge: the hospitals, then a hub in Senoko

The two Yishun hospitals share the lowest rate in the area, S$0.55 per kWh, on the MNL chargers in their visitor carparks.

Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, the garden hospital off Yishun Central, has four ports, and the Yishun Community Hospital next door has four more.

They are cheap, public and rarely full, the catch being that they suit a hospital visit more than a special trip.

The fastest charging is also among the cheapest, out at the Senoko industrial estate.

There, on Senoko Way, B'EV runs the only 480kW charger in Singapore, alongside 180kW and 240kW units, at about S$0.58 per kWh, open around the clock to any driver.

It is a drive from the housing estates, on the far industrial fringe, and the rate is worth checking in the B'EV app before relying on it, but nothing else charges a car this fast or this cheap.

Closer to home, the HomeTeamNS clubhouse at Khatib has Sinopec chargers at S$0.58 per kWh on alternating current and S$0.65 on its fast unit, in a carpark open to visitors.

At a block, the lowest rate is Charge+, at S$0.63 per kWh, across 11 of the newer carparks in the Canberra, Montreal and Yishun "spring" estates.

Everywhere else the blocks settle into a narrow band: Shell at S$0.69 per kWh runs the bulk of them, with ComfortDelGro ENGIE at S$0.70.

On a 40kWh top-up that is about S$22 at the hospital chargers, S$23 at the Senoko hub and S$28 at a Shell block, against about S$34 at the dearest mall charger.

Charging overnight: where the squeeze is

For residents without a home charger, the block chargers are the overnight default, and across Yishun and Sembawang they are mostly an easy target.

About a third of the block ports are in use overnight, and half that by day.

These are mature estates with plenty of supply, so even at the late-night peak two-thirds of the sockets sit empty, and on most streets a resident can come home late and still find a plug.

The squeeze is local, and it falls on the cheap blocks and a cluster of older Yishun carparks.

The tightest is Block 506 Yishun Avenue 4, a Shell block whose three sockets are usually full overnight, down to the last bay by about 8pm on a weeknight and the same at the weekend.

A driver who needs it should plug in by about 8pm, or walk to Block 665 Yishun Avenue 4, also Shell at S$0.69, where a socket is usually open.

The cheap Charge+ blocks fill next, on weeknights, because they are cheap.

Block 315 Yishun Avenue 9, at S$0.63, is down to its last socket by about 8pm on a weeknight. But at the weekend it stays open, with a bay or two to spare.

Its fallback is the easiest in the area: Block 317 on the same avenue, a seven-socket ComfortDelGro ENGIE carpark at S$0.70, almost always empty.

The newer Sembawang and Canberra blocks show the sharpest split between the week and the weekend.

Block 424A Canberra Road, a ComfortDelGro ENGIE block at S$0.70, is effectively full by about 8pm on a weeknight but stays open all weekend, the mark of a commuter estate that charges on work nights.

Block 126 Canberra Street, a Shell block, runs the other way: open on weeknights, but tighter at the weekend, when it is down to its last socket by about 9pm.

When either is full, the seven-socket carpark at Block 306A Canberra Road, a short walk away and also at S$0.70, keeps sockets open.

A row of older Yishun blocks tightens early on weeknights too.

Block 476 Yishun Street 44 and Block 465 Yishun Avenue 6, both ComfortDelGro ENGIE at S$0.70, are down to their last socket by about 7pm on a weeknight and by about 9pm at the weekend, with looser Shell blocks a cent cheaper a short walk away at Block 478 Yishun Street 42 and Block 439 Yishun Avenue 6.

The pattern across the area is the same. Because the blocks are so densely wired, a full one almost always has a quieter one on the next street, so the answer to a taken socket is a short walk, not a drive.

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, the paid fast chargers sit near-empty in the evenings: the B'EV hub, the mall units and the country-club chargers all keep open bays after dark.

When speed matters: fast, and mostly open

The quick charging runs from the cheap B'EV hub to the dearer mall and petrol-station units, and most of it sits idle.

The cheapest is the B'EV hub in Senoko at about S$0.58, the fastest in the country, for a driver who does not mind the trip out.

Next comes the HomeTeamNS clubhouse at Khatib, where Sinopec runs a 120kW charger at S$0.65.

Charge+ runs a 120kW charger at Northpoint City, the Yishun mall, at S$0.73, and Strides YTL a 60kW unit at the SAFRA Yishun clubhouse, also at S$0.73.

The dearest fast charging is SP Mobility's, at S$0.86 per kWh, on the 50 to 100kW chargers at Northpoint City, Wisteria Mall, the country clubs and the petrol stations.

The malls, the clubs and the industrial estates

The malls all charge for convenience, not value.

Northpoint City, the big mall above Yishun MRT, has a Charge+ fast charger at S$0.73 and an SP Mobility one at S$0.86, and Wisteria Mall runs SP Mobility chargers at S$0.77 on alternating current and S$0.86 fast.

The two largest Sembawang malls, Sun Plaza and Canberra Plaza, have no public charger of their own. So the nearest charge there is a block away.

The country clubs are open to visitors at the pump. Orchid Country Club and Sembawang Country Club both run SP Mobility chargers, at S$0.72 to S$0.86, in their guest carparks.

The Gambas business estate has SP Mobility's chargers at Nordcom One. None of these is the cheap way to charge, and most make sense only for a driver already parked there.

Paying for it

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

Shell Recharge runs most of the block chargers, at S$0.69, and ComfortDelGro ENGIE the next-largest share, at S$0.70. Charge+ runs the cheaper newer blocks, at S$0.63, and the Northpoint City fast charger.

MNL covers the two hospitals, Sinopec the HomeTeamNS clubhouse, B'EV the Senoko hub, and SP Mobility the malls, country clubs, petrol stations and industrial estates.

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 Yishun and Sembawang with a published 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 18 June 2026 and can change, so check the live map before driving.

The upshot

For a driver in Yishun or Sembawang, the cheapest charge is at the two Yishun hospitals, at S$0.55, and the cheapest fast one is the B'EV hub in Senoko at about S$0.58, the quickest in the country, both a short drive from the estates.

Overnight charging is easy on most blocks and tight on a cluster of older Yishun and newer Canberra ones, so the answer there is to get home early or walk a street over. Block 506 Yishun Avenue 4 is usually down to its last socket by about 8pm, and the cheap Charge+ block on Yishun Avenue 9 the same on a weeknight, though that one stays open at the weekend.

The malls and country clubs are the dear option, useful mainly when a driver is already parked there.

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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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