The adoption of electric vehicles in Singapore is supported by the Singapore government via the Singapore Green Plan 2030 to have new car models required to run on cleaner energy sources and installation of up to 60,000 electric vehicle charging stations. Financial incentives are given to the public for installation of charging points and purchase of electric cars.
As of May2023[update], there were 7,961 electric vehicles registered in Singapore, equivalent to 1.2% of all vehicles in the country.
Charging infrastructure
In September 2021, a tender was awarded to install more than 600 charging points in public carparks.[1] Charge+ and a consortium led by ComfortDelGro won the tender.[1]
In July 2021, there were around 2,000 public charging stations in Singapore, with one-third of the stations in private premises which are mostly in commercial developments like shopping malls.[2]
In March 2022, during a Committee of Supply debate on the Singapore Green Plan 2030, Transport Minister S Iswaran announced that by 2025, every HDB car parks will have a minimum of three charging points each.[3] Tender to install the charging points is to be launched within the first half of 2022.[3] The tender was awarded to 5 operators, Charge+, ComfortDelGro Engineering, SP Mobility, Shell Eastern Petroleum and Strides Automotive Services, to install and operate at least three charging points in each HDB carpark, making a total of at least 12,000 EV charging points.[1]
In July 2022, the number of charging stations increased to 2,500.[4]
In April 2023, The Straits Times reported that slightly more than 30 EV chargers had been installed in 12 Housing and Development Board (HDB) carparks under the new tender. ChargEco, a joint venture of electricity supplier YTL PowerSeraya and Strides Automotive Services, and Charge+ were the only two out of the five operators who had installed the chargers.[5]
By December 2023, the number of charging stations increased to almost 6,000 charging points.[6]
As of January 2024, more than 2,400 EV chargers had been installed at about 700 HDB residential carpark.[6]
In March 2024, EV-electric (EVe), a subsidiary of the Land Transport Authority (LTA) to manage charging points deployment, signed an agreement with Huawei to install Ultra-fast chargers in Singapore.[7]
Domestic manufacturing
Dyson initially planned to build an electric car manufacturing plant in Singapore but eventually cancelled the plans in October 2019.[8]
In 2020, Hyundai set up a Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Centre (HMGICS) in Jurong Innovation District within Jurong.[9] The centre also contains an electric vehicle manufacturing plant, the first in Singapore.[9] The center was completed at a cost of $400 million in January 2023.[10] It was originally expected to be completed by November 2022 but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore.[10]
In September 2022, EV registrations were about 19% of all new car registrations.[1]
By the end of 2022, there were 6,531 electric vehicles registered in Singapore, equivalent to 1% of all vehicles in the country.[12]As of May2023[update], there were 7,961 electric vehicles registered in Singapore, equivalent to 1.2% of all vehicles in the country.[13]BYD overtook Tesla to become the top-selling EV brand in Singapore.[13][14]
As of first quarter of 2025, 4,383 electric vehicles were registered in Singapore, comprising 40.2 per cent of total car registrations.[15] Of the new electric cars, the top three brands were BYD, Tesla and BMW with 2,183,413 and 361 cars sold respectively.
Transit
In March 2022, there were 60 electric public buses in use with plans to convert half of Singapore’s public bus fleet (5,800 buses in March 2022) to be electric buses by 2030.[3]
In addition, private bus operators such as Singapore Ducktours will also purchase 3 electric LARC-V vehicles and 10 open-top Wright StreetDeck Electroliner buses.
Taxis operators of Singapore also planned to have half of Singapore’s taxi fleet (around 15,000 taxis in March 2022) to change to electric taxis by 2030.[3]Land Transport Authority had extended the statutory lifespan of electric taxis from 8 to 10 years to let operators recover their investment in electric taxis.[3]
Government
On 10 February 2021, the government released the Singapore Green Plan 2030 which includes the installation of up 60,000 electric vehicle charging points.[16]
In July 2021, the government offers rebates via the Electric Vehicle Common Charger Grant for charging station installations equivalent to 50% of the cost of installation, capped at S$4,000 for 2,000 charging stations.[2] The grant expires on 1 January 2024 or when grants for 2,000 chargers had been awarded.[2]
As of October2022[update], the Singaporean government offers tax rebates of up to S$45,000 for electric vehicle purchases.[17]As of November2022[update], the government offers a 45 percent rebate, capped at $15,000, on car registration fees for electric cars.[18] In 2024, LTA announced that LTA will continue the 45 percent rebate for electric car till end of 2025 while National Environment Agency will also continue the maximum rebate of $25,000 for cars under the Vehicular Emissions Scheme.[19]
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