Electra, the French fast-charging operator, is ending the fixed price of €0.29 per kWh that subscribers to its original Electra+ Boost plan pay in France. In emails to those subscribers, Electra says the price rises to €0.34 per kWh at French stations on 2 December 2026, an increase of 17%, Numerama reported on 2 November. A subscriber had posted the same figures in a French EV owners' Facebook group on 28 October, and the post drew more than 380 comments. Electra has not announced the change publicly.

What the emails say

Boost costs €9.99 a month and has given one fixed price around the clock, on motorways and off them. According to Numerama, Electra's emails treat its subscribers in two ways:

  • Monthly subscribers keep Boost but pay €0.34 instead of €0.29 per kWh at French stations from 2 December. Idle fees become dynamic, linked to the battery's state of charge, and the discounts Boost gives at partner operators become variable too.
  • Annual subscribers are told that their plan "will not be renewed" when it reaches its term.

Both emails point to Electra+ Smart, which costs €4.99 a month and takes €0.20 off the price shown in the app. The catch is the price it is taken from. Electra prices French fast charging by station, hour and day, and Smart discounts that moving price. Numerama found that at night or in mid-afternoon a Smart subscriber can sometimes pay less than €0.20 per kWh. At the morning and evening peaks, roughly 8 to 10 am and 5 to 8 pm, the base price is close to or above €0.55, so the bill after the discount climbs to €0.35 to €0.39 or more.

What Electra promised

When Electra introduced dynamic pricing and its Smart plan last spring, it told existing customers that the old and new plans would coexist, Numerama recalls. Electra's help centre still says so: Start and Boost subscriptions "remain active until they are cancelled, regardless of any dynamic pricing", and a Boost subscription "continues to give access to a fixed tariff". The page was last updated on 26 October and quotes no price. For monthly subscribers the price stays fixed, only higher. For annual subscribers the plan ends at its term.

The subscriber prices are not the only change. Comparing Electra's French price page on 1 November with an archived copy from 13 May, Tesla Mag found that the in-app price without a subscription now runs from €0.39 to €0.64 per kWh, against €0.39 to €0.61 in May, and that paying by bank card costs from €0.64 instead of €0.61. Electra did not answer the magazine's questions. In Italy, where Electra switched to hourly prices in October, its general manager said electricity costs had almost doubled in six months.

What it means for Tesla owners

Electra's stations take any CCS car, Teslas included, and the network is growing: it is taking over Mercedes-Benz's 47 European charging hubs. For a Boost subscriber who charges 150 kWh a month at Electra, the December rise adds €7.50 a month on top of the €9.99 fee. Whether Smart works out cheaper depends on when the car is plugged in: off-peak sessions gain, rush-hour sessions lose. Before 2 December, a Tesla owner on Boost can compare Electra's new price with the Supercharger prices that the car and the Tesla app show for the same trip and time of day.