For the first time, charging points for electric vehicles (EVs) have been installed at a surface-level Housing Board carpark under a large-scale project to install EV chargers at public carparks.
The six chargers at the surface-level – or open-air – carpark at Block 209 Jurong East Street 21 began operating last Tuesday, and are the latest to be rolled out under a tender awarded in November 2022.
By the end of 2023, there will be 30 surface-level HDB carparks equipped with EV chargers under this scheme, said EV-Electric (EVe) Charging, a subsidiary of the Land Transport Authority (LTA) overseeing the deployment of public EV chargers. These will be installed in Ang Mo Kio, Bedok, Bukit Batok and Bukit Merah.
EV chargers launched earlier were installed in multi-storey HDB carparks. As at Oct 31, EVe has commissioned about 1,600 chargers at 500 public carparks. Another 860 chargers at 240 carparks are in various stages of development.
Under the contract awarded in November 2022, five charging service operators – overseen by EVe – will install at least 12,000 charging points covering nearly 2,000 HDB carparks by 2025.
LTA said it aims to have EV chargers at more than 700 HDB carparks – or about a third of the 2,000 public carparks – by the end of 2023. The first two multi-storey carparks to launch EV chargers under this initiative in February were in Telok Blangah and Boon Lay.
The chargers at the surface-level carpark in Jurong East Street 21 are operated by Charge+. The carpark spaces set aside for EV charging there are located in a row, next to one another.
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