Where to Charge Your EV in Lagos (2025 Complete Guide)

The moment you realise your plan has a flaw

You pick up your new EV on a Thursday. Friday morning the battery is at 18%. You Google "charging station Lagos" and the results are thin. You end up at the Qoray station on Adeola Odeku, plug in, and stand next to your car for 40 minutes wondering why nobody told you about this part. The car is sorted. Your charging strategy is not yet.

This guide fixes that. Everything in it is specific to Lagos in 2025: real station addresses, real tariffs, real costs, and honest advice on what to do before range anxiety ever becomes your problem.

The honest state of public charging in Lagos

There are between 8 and 12 commercial EV charging stations in the whole of Lagos. Nationwide the count is 12 to 20. For context, Nigeria has approximately 27,000 petrol stations. The infrastructure gap is real and the Wheelmax editorial team put it plainly: "Public charging network remains in its absolute infancy with limited stations in Lagos and Abuja."

One company runs the dominant network: Qoray Mobility. Their Lagos footprint covers six confirmed locations, all open to any EV driver regardless of vehicle brand. Between 15,000 and 20,000 EVs are on Nigerian roads as of early 2025, concentrated in Lagos and Abuja, and the vast majority of those owners charge at home or at work. Industry estimates put that figure at around 80% of all EV drivers.

Public charging in Lagos is a top-up option, not a primary strategy. If you are buying an EV expecting to run it the same way you run a petrol car (pull up, fill up in 5 minutes), you will need to reset that expectation now.

Qoray Mobility: the stations that actually exist

Qoray is Nigeria's largest commercial EV charging network. In Lagos they operate at six addresses, with a mix of AC and DC fast charging at each site.

Victoria Island and environs

• Marina (20 Marina Road): 22kW AC Type 2 and 60kW DC fast charger (CCS)
• Victoria Island (300 Adeola Odeku Street): 22kW AC
• Ikoyi (12 Bourdillon Road): 22kW AC

Mainland and Ikeja

• Ilupeju: 22kW AC
• Sheraton Lagos Hotel, Ikeja (30 Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way): 22kW AC and 60kW DC fast charger. Opened July 2025. Operates 24/7 with CCTV, gated access, and 24/7 security.
• Lagos Marriott Hotel, Ikeja (22 Joel Ogunnaike Street, Car Park B2): 60kW DC fast charger. Opened June 2025. Open to the public beyond hotel guests.

Olabanjo Alimi, CEO of Qoray Mobility, said the mission is to "seamlessly integrate electric vehicle charging into the daily lives of Nigerians." The two hotel sites in Ikeja are a direct step toward that: business travelers, residents, and anyone passing through now have a fast charge option on the mainland.

Other Lagos charging locations

Victoria Island: Mega Plaza

SAGLEV installed EV charging points at the rooftop of the multi-level car park at Mega Plaza Shopping Mall, Victoria Island. Specific power ratings and pricing were not disclosed publicly at the time of this writing. Dr. Sam Faleye, CEO of SAGLEV, has confirmed further charging points will be unveiled in Lagos and Abuja. Worth checking back on as this develops.

Lekki: The Palms Shopping Mall

SAGLEV also has a charging point at The Palms Shopping Mall in Lekki, one of the first retail EV charging locations in the Lekki corridor. Power rating and pricing have not been publicly confirmed.

Surulere: Siltech E-Box

Siltech World operates the Siltech E-Box charging station in Surulere. Siltech is a local EV manufacturer and claims up to 10 EV service centres with charging and battery swap stations in Lagos, though the count has not been independently confirmed. If you are on the mainland and cannot make Ilupeju or Ikeja work, this is worth investigating.

Yaba: NADDC University of Lagos

The National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) installed a solar-powered EV charging station at the University of Lagos, Yaba campus. This is a government pilot, not a public commercial station. Access is not guaranteed for the general public.

What charging costs at each level

The numbers tell you everything you need to know about why home charging dominates: a full 60 kWh top-up at home on the Band A tariff costs around ₦13,740. The same charge at a Qoray DC fast charger costs ₦30,000. Home charging is roughly 54% cheaper. Public stations are for emergencies and away-from-home top-ups, not your daily routine.

On a per-kilometre basis: a home-charged EV costs approximately ₦9 to ₦16 per km. A petrol car at ₦950 per litre averaging 12 km per litre costs approximately ₦79 per km. That is a 5 to 8x difference in running cost per kilometre.

Home charging: what Lagos EV owners actually do

One real Lagos EV owner described the local reality plainly: "In Nigeria we use 240v, 50Hz electricity ratings. Supply ranges from 8 to 14 hrs per day. Some days no power (for days!). I support national grid with solar power."

Nigeria's grid recorded six full collapses in 2023 alone. The national grid runs at approximately 30% of installed capacity. Band A customers in premium Lagos estates get 20 to 24 hours of supply on good days. Most areas get 8 to 14 hours. Some get less. This is not a minor footnote for EV ownership. It is the central planning challenge.

Level 1: the standard wall socket

A standard 240V Nigerian outlet charges your EV at 1 to 2 kWh per hour. That adds roughly 13 to 16 km of range per hour of charging. To add 200 km of range you need 16 or more hours plugged in. This is workable only if you drive short distances and have long, reliable power windows. Most owners who start here move on quickly.

Level 2: the wall-box charger

A dedicated 22kW AC wall-box installed in your compound delivers a full charge in approximately 6 hours on a 60 kWh battery, or 2 to 3 hours on a 40 kWh battery. It requires a dedicated 32A to 40A circuit and professional installation. Many Lagos estate homes can support this, but you must get a licensed electrician to assess your circuit first before buying the hardware.

Budget: ₦300,000 to ₦800,000 for equipment and professional installation. Get multiple quotes. Price varies significantly by installer and by what your existing electrical panel can support.

The solar-inverter layer (near-mandatory)

Most serious Lagos EV owners add a solar-inverter system to back up their home charging. A 7 to 10 kW solar system costs between ₦2 million and ₦6 million installed. That is not a small number. But it solves two problems at once: it keeps your EV charged through NEPA outages, and it cuts your generator diesel spend across the whole house.

The honest take: if you cannot yet afford the solar layer, a Level 2 wall-box alone is still worthwhile, provided your estate has Band A supply or close to it. If you are on an estate where power disappears for days at a time, solve the solar situation before you buy the car.

Connector types: make sure yours fits

Not every charger accepts every car. Here is how Lagos maps out:

• Type 2 (Mennekes): the standard for AC charging at Qoray stations and most public points. Used by BYD models, Nissan Leaf (some), and most modern European and Asian imports.
• CCS Combo 2: used at Qoray DC fast chargers at Marina, Sheraton Ikeja, and Marriott Ikeja.
• Tesla connector: supported at Qoray Marina and Adeola Odeku stations.
• Type 1 (J1772): some older US-spec imports use this for AC. Less common at Lagos public stations.

Before you drive to a station, confirm your car's connector type matches what that station provides. Qoray's DC fast chargers use CCS Combo 2. If your car only accepts CHAdeMO (some older Nissan Leafs), those stations will not work for fast charging.

What is coming

NEV Electric's Charging as a Service (CAAS) subsidiary has announced plans to deploy 160kW fast-charging stations across Lagos and Abuja, with 300 stations total. That would be the fastest charger in Nigeria by a significant margin, and a network more than ten times larger than what currently exists. As of early 2026 this is still an announced plan, not deployed infrastructure. Track it, but do not plan your life around it yet.

Nigeria's EV Transition and Green Mobility Bill cleared its second reading in the Senate in November 2025. If enacted, it would require every petrol station in Nigeria to install EV charging points. That is a pipeline of 27,000 new charging sites in theory. In practice, implementation timelines are not yet defined. The legislation matters, but the stations are not there yet.

SAGLEV's CEO has confirmed further charging sites coming in Lagos and Abuja. Their first EV assembly plant in Imota, Ikorodu, became operational in June 2025 with capacity for approximately 2,500 vehicles per year. As local EV production scales, pressure on charging infrastructure will increase. The supply and the network are moving in the same direction.

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