In the first half of 2026, charging a car at home cost an average of 36 euro cents a kilowatt-hour in Germany and just under 20 in Norway and Slovakia. Those are Eurostat's household electricity prices, published on 30 October 2026, which put the EU average at €0.2832 per kWh with taxes and levies included. That is 2.2% below the second half of 2025, but in Eurostat's words still well above the levels seen before the 2022 energy crisis. Taxes and levies made up 28.4% of the average bill, down from 28.9%.
For a Tesla owner who does most of their charging on a driveway or in a garage, the national figure is the one that counts, and the gap is wide. Of the ten markets below, Germany is the most expensive at €0.3618 and Slovakia the cheapest at €0.1985.
Europe, market by market
The table uses Eurostat's standard household band, 2,500 to 4,999 kWh a year. Changes are in national currency, as Eurostat reports them, which is why Norway's price fell in kroner while edging up in euros. The last column is an illustration: a car that draws 18 kWh from the wall per 100 km, charging losses included, and covers 15,000 km a year. That comes to 2,700 kWh.
| Market | H1 2025 (€/kWh) | H1 2026 (€/kWh) | Change, national currency | 15,000 km charged at home |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 0.3835 | 0.3618 | -5.7% | €977 |
| Italy | 0.3291 | 0.3142 | -4.5% | €848 |
| Sweden | 0.2654 | 0.3062 | +12.2% | €827 |
| Poland | 0.2559 | 0.2999 | +17.5% | €810 |
| Czechia | 0.3179 | 0.2884 | -11.8% | €779 |
| Spain | 0.2612 | 0.2509 | -3.9% | €677 |
| France | 0.2671 | 0.2485 | -7.0% | €671 |
| Netherlands | 0.2385 | 0.2440 | +2.3% | €659 |
| Norway | 0.1986 | 0.1993 | -3.9% | €538 |
| Slovakia | 0.1887 | 0.1985 | +5.2% | €536 |
| EU average | 0.2879 | 0.2832 | -1.6% (in euros) | €765 |
Where it rose and where it fell
Poland had the steepest rise of these markets: 17.5% in złoty, to an average of 1.27 zł per kWh. Swedish households paid 12.2% more in kronor. Czech households paid 11.8% less in koruna, and French ones 7.0% less. Across the whole EU, Eurostat recorded the sharpest increases in Romania (+51.6%), Ireland (+19.8%) and Finland (+18.4%), and the sharpest falls in Denmark (-31.7%) and Luxembourg (-24.1%).
Expressed in purchasing power standards, which adjust for price levels in each country, Romania (46.9 per 100 kWh), Poland (41.1) and Czechia (34.3) had the most expensive household electricity in the EU. By that measure, charging at home weighs more on Polish and Czech owners than on German ones.
A bigger household pays less per kWh, mostly
Adding 2,700 kWh of charging to a household in the standard band can push it into Eurostat's next one, 5,000 to 14,999 kWh a year. That band is cheaper per kWh in nine of the ten markets: €0.3214 in Germany, €0.2442 in Sweden, €0.2244 in Czechia and €0.1315 in Norway. The Netherlands is the exception, at €0.2530 against €0.2440.
How it compares with public charging
In Italy, Adiconsum and TariffEV's September price survey put the average high-power public tariff at €0.74 per kWh, more than twice the €0.3142 Italian households paid at home. Tesla's Superchargers came out cheapest among high-power networks, from €0.26 per kWh for Tesla owners, which is below the average Italian home price. In Poland, the October price ranking put the median peak Supercharger price for Tesla owners and members at 1.90 zł per kWh, about half as much again as the 1.27 zł households paid at home.
Eurostat's figures are averages across all tariffs for January to June, including network charges, taxes and levies. An owner on a time-of-use or dynamic tariff can pay quite differently, and prices have moved since June.