Tesla has opened a Supercharger in Singapore to other brands' electric cars for the first time. The four stalls at Dunearn Village, a shopping mall in the Bukit Timah area, are the first Tesla chargers in the city-state that a non-Tesla EV can use, The Straits Times reported on 25 October 2026. Tesla's 18 other Singapore sites remain for Tesla owners only, and the company did not say whether it plans to open them.
What is on offer
The site has four stalls rated at 250 kW, which the paper says can add more than 280 km of range in 15 minutes. That is well above most public fast chargers in Singapore, which are rated between 50 kW and 120 kW. Drivers of other brands start and pay for a session in the Tesla app.
The stalls started operating in early October. Supercharge.info, a community database of Tesla sites, lists Dunearn Village as opened on 30 September 2026 with four V4 posts and CCS2 plugs. It is the only one of Tesla's 19 open Singapore sites that the database marks as open to other EVs.
Two prices, set by the clock
What a session costs depends on the time of day and on the car:
| Driver | Price per kWh (Singapore dollars) |
|---|---|
| Tesla owner | S$0.47 – S$0.67 |
| Other EV | S$0.63 – S$0.91 |
At both ends of the range, a non-Tesla driver pays about a third more than a Tesla owner: 34% more at the cheapest hour and 36% more at the dearest, on TeslAnt's arithmetic from the published rates.
Walter Theseira, a transport economist at the Singapore University of Social Sciences, told the paper that Tesla calibrates its rates by time of day, with large off-peak discounts to manage demand and shorten waits, while other operators charge a fixed rate. He said Tesla's prices are higher than they used to be but still generally cheaper than other providers in the same area.
Why open up now
Theseira said the move made sense as Tesla's network grows. A closed network helped sell Teslas when public charging was scarce, he said, but that appeal has faded as Singapore's public network has expanded. The Straits Times counts 28 charging operators listed by the Land Transport Authority, most with their own app and sign-up deposit.
Tesla is still adding sites quickly. Supercharge.info shows four new Singapore locations opened between 19 September and 13 October (Plaza Singapura, Dunearn Village, Bedok Mall and IMM), with three more listed as planned.
A Tesla owner quoted by the paper, who has driven one since 2021, said he was not bothered by sharing because Tesla owners still pay less. He added that Tesla's presence "keeps the bigger operators in check".
What it means for owners
For Tesla owners in Singapore, nothing changes at the other 18 sites. At Dunearn Village, the queue may now include other cars, at a price that rewards owning a Tesla.
The structure will look familiar in Europe. Tesla has opened sites to other brands in Australia, Malaysia and much of Europe, and it usually charges them more per kWh than its own drivers. In Poland, for example, a monthly membership brings a non-Tesla driver down to the owner price. The Straits Times report mentions no such membership in Singapore. Whether Tesla opens more than one mall will show if this is a trial or the start of a wider opening.