GreenWay, the largest charging operator in central and eastern Europe, is changing how it prices cross-border charging. From 15 October 2026 the rate you pay follows the country you are standing in, not the country your account was registered in.
For most customers nothing changes. For the group that had been arbitraging the difference, it changes quite a lot.
What the gap was
Until now a GreenWay account registered in Slovakia carried its Slovak pricing abroad. On the Energia Standard plan, a Slovak-registered driver charging above 100 kW in Poland paid about 2.58 PLN/kWh — roughly EUR 0.59 — while a Polish-registered driver at the same stall paid 2.99 PLN/kWh. That is a difference of about 14% on exactly the same electricity from exactly the same charger.
| Above 100 kW in Poland | |
|---|---|
| Slovak-registered account, until 14 October | about 2.58 PLN/kWh (about EUR 0.59) |
| Polish-registered account | 2.99 PLN/kWh |
| Slovak-registered account, from 15 October | 2.99 PLN/kWh |
The incentive this created was obvious enough that it had become a known tactic among drivers near the border: register where the tariff is cheapest, charge wherever you like. From 15 October registration country stops paying for itself unless you genuinely charge in that country.
Where this applies
GreenWay runs three markets. At the end of 2025 its public network stood at 2,807 charge points — 2,021 in Poland, 722 in Slovakia and 64 in Croatia — and it is working through a EUR 113m financing package, including a EUR 35m EBRD loan, to add 2,700 fast and ultra-fast points across the same three countries by 2028.
That footprint is the reason the change matters beyond a pricing footnote. Poland and Slovakia are a single driving region for a large number of owners, and GreenWay is the default network across much of it.
What a Tesla owner should do
Tesla drivers in the region use GreenWay routinely — the Supercharger network is thinner in Slovakia and Croatia than it is further west, and GreenWay's ultra-fast sites fill the gaps on north-south routes. If your account is Slovak and you do most of your charging in Poland, your per-kWh cost rises on 15 October, and the honest answer is that there is no longer a registration trick to avoid it.
Two practical points. First, check which GreenWay plan you are on before the date rather than after: the standard and subscription tariffs move differently, and the plan that was right under home-country pricing may not be the cheapest once local rates apply. Second, the comparison worth making is now against local competitors in each country rather than against your own old rate — in Poland that means weighing GreenWay against the operators we covered when Orlen's charging promotion ended in September.
The wider trend is the one to note. Location-based pricing is where European roaming is heading, and it removes a quiet subsidy that cross-border drivers had been enjoying. It is also, to be fair to GreenWay, the more honest model: the cost of delivering a kilowatt-hour in Warsaw does not depend on where the driver happens to have signed up.