Electra has started pricing its Italian fast chargers by the clock. Since 26 October 2026, the price per kWh at its Italian stations depends on the hour a session starts, in three bands that the Electra app colours green, yellow and red. Electra rewrote its help-centre pages that morning, and the Italian outlets Motorbox and Automoto reported the switch the same day. Both compared it with Tesla's Superchargers, which already price by site and time of day.
How the new prices work
Electra's help centre now puts Italy alongside Spain: in both, the price varies only by time of day, and the same bands apply every day of the week. France and Belgium vary by station, time and day, and the Netherlands by station only. Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg keep one fixed price. Motorway stations are priced separately from the rest of the network. Whatever the band, the price shown in the app before a session starts is fixed for that session.
Electra publishes the bands station by station, in its app and on its station map, not as a national table. Motorbox read them for a six-stall, 300 kW hub in Treviso:
| Time of day | Treviso hub, per kWh |
|---|---|
| 07:00–11:00 | €0.79 (peak) |
| 11:00–15:00 | €0.64 (cheapest) |
| 17:00–21:00 | €0.79 (peak) |
| Other hours | Standard band (price not reported) |
Subscriptions apply on top. Electra+ Essential costs €1.99 a month and takes €0.10 off every kWh; Smart costs €4.99 and takes €0.20 off, so a Smart subscriber would pay €0.44 to €0.59 at Treviso. Neither discount applies when a session is started with a bank card at the terminal or with another operator's charging card.
The idle fee stays as before: €0.40 a minute once a car has reached 80% while the station is busy, after a five-minute warning in the app. Sessions paid by bank card at the terminal pay the same €0.40 a minute after 60 minutes.
How it compares with Superchargers
Some Italian charging is already priced by the clock: Enel splits its prices into day and night bands. Electra's bands follow demand instead, so the cheapest window falls at midday and the dearest at the commuting peaks.
Adiconsum and TariffEV's September price survey found that Tesla's 1,038 Italian Supercharger stalls charged Tesla owners €0.26 to €0.60 per kWh, and drivers of other brands €0.44 to €0.74 without Tesla's €9.90 monthly membership. The survey's average for high-power charging was €0.74. Electra's midday price in Treviso is below that average, but above anything a Tesla owner paid at an Italian Supercharger in the survey.
What it means for Tesla owners
Electra's station map lists 84 Italian sites. Sixty-two of them are rated at up to 300 kW, ten at 400 kW or more, and 22 are in the Milan area. For a Tesla driver, it is one of the networks met between Superchargers. The practical rule is now simple: if the route allows, plug in at Electra between 11:00 and 15:00, check the price in the app before starting, and unplug at 80% when the station is busy.
The network around it keeps growing. Motus-E counted 88,368 public charging points in Italy on 30 September, 18,096 more than a year earlier, and almost 30% of the new points are fast or ultra-fast. Italy's motorways had 1,569 points, 85% of them DC and 57% above 150 kW, and more than half of motorway service areas now have chargers.