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1,600 HDB carparks have EV chargers; 150 more to get them by end-2025
The Straits Times
|October 27, 2025
About 85 per cent - or over 1,600 of some 2,000 - Housing Board carparks have been equipped with chargers for electric vehicles (EVs), with another 150 carparks to get them by the end of 2025.
However, the remaining 150 carparks will get these chargers installed only from 2026. This is due to factors such as “technical constraints” and “taking in community preferences to balance the parking needs of various users”, said the Land Transport Authority (LTA) in response to The Straits Times’ queries.
This means the authorities will miss their target of equipping every HDB carpark with EV chargers by the end of 2025.
LTA said it will deploy at least three 7.4 kilowatt (kW) charging points at each of the 300 HDB carparks that currently do not have EV chargers. Such charging points are slow and suitable for overnight charging.
Some of these upcoming locations are in Fernvale Road, Ang Mo Kio Street 22 and Eunos Crescent, according to checks by ST.
Estates currently without EV chargers at HDB carparks include some Build-To-Order (BTO) projects in Tengah and Bidadari, as well as in Tampines West.
Some car owners, such as Tampines resident Sam Wong, 37, told ST they have benefited from the installation of EV chargers at HDB carparks.
This story is from the October 27, 2025 edition of The Straits Times.
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