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EV charging is finally reaching the heartland car parks — slowly, and one tender at a time
The rollout to HDB car parks is the part of the electric-vehicle plan that decides whether ordinary drivers can make the switch. Progress is real, but uneven by estate.
For most Singaporeans, the electric-vehicle question is not about the car — it is about the car park. A driver in a landed home installs a charger and forgets it; a driver in an HDB block waits for the points to arrive in their estate, and the wait varies enormously by where you live.
The national plan commits to chargers across a large share of public car parks, and the deployment is genuinely underway, but it moves estate by estate through tenders and works that residents experience as long stretches of nothing followed by a sudden bank of new points. Early adopters describe a frustrating chicken-and-egg: the charging makes the car viable, but the car only makes sense once the charging is there.
The agencies involved say coverage is widening on schedule and that the uneven rollout is a sequencing artefact rather than a gap in ambition. For drivers weighing the switch, the honest advice is to check what is actually installed under their own block before committing — the national number and the one in your car park are not the same.
