Singapore To Deploy Charging Stations For Electric Vehicles

11 Oct 2010

The inter-agency Electric Vehicle (EV) Taskforce has appointed Robert Bosch (SEA) Pte Ltd (“Bosch”) to design, develop, deploy, operate and maintain Singapore’s EV charging infrastructure as part of the EV test-bed program. Singapore’s move towards adopting electric vehicles will take a significant step forward early next year when the first group of charging stations is installed. Outside Germany, Singapore will be the first location to test out this integrated EV charging infrastructure solution developed by Bosch.

The first batch of electric vehicles, Mitsubishi i-MiEV’s are due to be delivered around March 2011 and 26 charging stations will be deployed in the initial phase of the programme, with the first one up and running around the same time.

Bosch will work closely with the organisations buying the EVs to determine where to set up the charging stations. Nearly all of the 26 stations set up initially will be normal charging stations, meaning cars will have to be plugged in for up to eight hours to get a full charge.

Only one will be a quick charging station which will only take 45 minutes to deliver a full charge. The cost of the charge is yet to be decided.

All interested companies and organisations, especially those with large vehicle fleets, are invited to participate as early adopters of EVs. This will provide a broader base for evaluation and testing of critical data, such as the performance of EVs as well as the ease of charging under local road conditions and environment.