Polestar Will Sell You 30% Off European Fast Charging. Not at a Supercharger.

Polestar has put a price on cheap charging. On 2 October 2026 it added two paid tiers to Polestar Charge, its roaming service in Europe: Plus at EUR 7.99 a month for 15 per cent off fast charging, and Pro at EUR 14.99 a month for 30 per cent. The existing tariff without a monthly fee stays.

The interesting part for a Tesla driver is not the discount. It is which network the discount does not reach.

What each tier buys

Plus covers EnBW, Shell Recharge, Vattenfall, Mer and Fastned. Pro adds Ionity and Allego — the two that matter most on a long run, and the reason the second tier exists at all. Prices quoted are the German ones; Polestar has not published a per-country table, so treat EUR 7.99 and EUR 14.99 as German figures until your own market's configurator says otherwise. Per-kWh rates on the free tier are not disclosed.

The service is included with a new Polestar and with cars bought through its used-car programme, and the roaming runs on Plugsurfing. Polestar counts 161,000 charging sessions through Polestar Charge between June and August 2026.

The Supercharger exception

Polestar Charge reaches more than 1.25 million public charge points in Europe, and that total includes Tesla's Supercharger network. Set the two numbers side by side and the gap is the story: 1.25 million points in the network, 118,000 of them discounted on the most expensive tier. Roughly nine in ten points a Polestar driver can plug into are outside the subscription.

Tesla's are among them. Polestar's own wording is that Supercharger access applies regardless of the tariff chosen — available on every tier, discounted on none. A Polestar owner paying EUR 14.99 a month gets 30 per cent off at Ionity and nothing off at a Supercharger.

That is not Polestar being coy. A discount has to be negotiated with the operator, and Tesla has consistently declined to sell its network wholesale at a markdown. It opened the stalls; it did not open the pricing.

What this means for European Tesla owners

This is the second structural finding about European charging in a week, and it points the same way as the first. The 2026 connect and umlaut test concluded that the tariff decides the annual bill more than the operator does — up to EUR 809 a year between the best and worst contract for the same driving. Polestar has now built a product on exactly that premise, as Plenitude and Enel did in Italy last week.

For Tesla owners the practical read is narrow but real. Subscription discounts are becoming the main lever on what European fast charging costs, and the network Tesla owns is the one they keep routing around. Supercharger pricing stays what Tesla sets it at — which is an argument for the network when its ad-hoc rate is good, and no help at all when a rival's discounted Ionity rate undercuts it.

It also sharpens a number this site has reported before. Tesla runs the third-largest charging network in Germany. Being large and being inside the discount schemes are now different things.