28,000 charging stations for electric cars is possible - but where? Industry players weigh in

, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said Singapore will aim to phase out vehicles with internal combustion engines over the next 20 years.

Surrounding features like trees and underground cables also matter. For instance, trees cannot be cut down to make way for construction and installation work. “We need to do trenching, digging, and then we need to do casting – weather permitting,” said Ms Lim. But it is more likely than not that the conversion of existing car park lots will have to factor into the numbers game.

However, Ms Lim also pointed out another challenge – that many car parks in Singapore are older and tend to only be equipped with just enough power for lights, elevators, and electronic gantries. In 2016, it provided isolators for 97 units at its landed property development in Serangoon Gardens giving owners the flexibility to plug-and-play EV chargers if and when they decide to get an electric car.

"This building benchmarking scheme will encourage the construction of environmentally-friendly buildings and features that align with the long-term goals of sustainability and liveability. EV charging stations definitely fall within the category of a green feature.”Also very much a part of the debate are concerns about what impact 28,000 charging stations will have on the national power grid.

“That said, SP Group will undertake all measures to ensure there's no adverse impact on the grid arising from EV charging.” “Based on that, we have some numbers to estimate where around Singapore these drivers would be distributed, and based on that, we would estimate potential locations to plant the charging stations."

FILE PHOTO: Electric car charge points at the Holloway Road Shell station, where Shell launched its first fast electric vehicle charging station in London, Britain Oct 18, 2017. Fast-chargers, on the other hand, are more suited to those constantly on the move. For example, SP Group’s fast-chargers primarily serve drivers of fleet vehicles like electric taxi service HDT, Grab’s electric cars, and multi-national corporation Schneider Electric’s internal-use fleet.

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