Tesla opens four Singapore fast chargers to other EVs, while SimplyGo adds charging search and pay

Four Tesla charging bays at Dunearn Village, a shopping mall in Singapore's Bukit Timah area, are open to all electric cars, The Straits Times reported on 25 October. The paper says they are the first Tesla high-speed chargers in Singapore open to non-Tesla vehicles, and that they started operating in early October.

The Straits Times says the bays are rated at 250 kW and can add more than 280 km of range in 15 minutes, while most fast chargers on Singapore's public network are rated at 50 to 120 kW. Drivers need the Tesla app. Non-Tesla cars pay 63 to 91 Singapore cents per kWh depending on time of day, against 47 to 67 cents for Tesla owners. Tesla's other 18 Singapore sites remain Tesla-only, and the paper says the company did not comment on whether it would open them.

Tesla's own support page for other EVs says non-Tesla access works only for CCS2-enabled vehicles and needs Tesla app version 4.2.3 or later. Drivers should check eligibility in the app.

The same Straits Times report says transit platform SimplyGo added charger search and payment in early October across six operators, Busways, Busways Public, G. Tech, City Energy Go, MNL Asia and EV Mobility. That covers more than 1,100 points at 332 locations, mostly condominiums and commercial buildings, from 7 kW AC to 240 kW DC, at 30 to 86 cents per kWh. Larger operators including Charge+, CDG Energy, Shell Recharge and SP Mobility are not on it.

Analysis

This is one site of four bays, not Tesla's Singapore network. The price gap is the bigger detail for other drivers: at the top of each band, non-Tesla cars pay 24 cents more per kWh. SimplyGo's six operators are mostly private sites, some not open to the public.

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