Tesla Supercharger Prices Are Up 15% in the Last Year

If your recent Supercharger sessions seem to cost a little more than they used to, you’re not imagining it. Tesla’s Supercharger prices have climbed up to 15% over the past year, depending on what’s plugged in. The jump was big enough to nudge up the average price of EV fast charging across the U.S.

The numbers come from Paren’s Q3 U.S. EV Fast Charging report, which tracks pricing across public charging networks (via InsideEVs).

What Supercharging Costs Now

According to the report, non-members now pay an average of $0.569 per kWh at Tesla Superchargers, 15% more than a year ago. These are the drivers who own non-Tesla EVs and don’t pay for the Tesla Supercharging Membership. Members pay the same rate as Tesla owners, at $0.396 per kWh, but that price also rose about 9%.

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A 15% jump sounds worse on paper than it feels in practice. A 60 kWh session now costs about $34.14 instead of $29.70, roughly $4.50 more. About 80% of EV charging happens at home, so the price bumps work out to around $66 more per year for the average non-Tesla driver who uses Superchargers for all of their public fast charging.

The per-kWh rate isn’t the only thing you pay, either. Depending on where you charge and how busy the site is, Supercharging may incur congestion or idle fees. In the U.S., those run $0.50 per minute when a site is at least half full and double to $1 per minute when it’s completely full. They’re waived if you move your car within five minutes. Our full guide to Supercharger idle and congestion fees explains how to avoid them.

Catching Up to Other Networks

The increase doesn’t make Superchargers the most expensive option out there. It mostly brings Tesla’s pricing in line with everyone else. Paren found that the national average for non-Tesla fast chargers has held steady at around $0.533 per kWh for five straight quarters. Tesla’s price bump alone pushed the overall average up about 2%, to $0.540 per kWh.

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Non-members now pay slightly more at a Supercharger than at the average third-party fast charger, but the gap is only a few cents per kWh, which the smoother, friction-free experience could easily justify.

A Network That Keeps Growing

The higher prices come as the network keeps expanding quickly. Tesla’s global Supercharger network recently passed 85,000 stalls at 9,000 locations after adding about 2,700 new stalls worldwide last quarter, 1,287 of them in the U.S. Tesla is also speeding up deployment with pre-fabricated designs like its new pre-assembled Accordion Superchargers that are easier and cheaper to install.

More drivers from other brands are plugging into Superchargers every month, so prices probably won’t drop anytime soon. Even so, at under 60 cents per kWh, a Supercharger stop is still a much cheaper road trip expense than a tank of gas for most drivers.