Tesla cut prices at German Supercharger stations overnight into Friday 11 September 2026, at many sites by 10 cents per kilowatt-hour or more. The cheapest station in the country now starts at 20 cents/kWh.
Tesla announced nothing. There is no press release and no statement on whether the new rates are permanent or seasonal. What exists is the tariff shown in the app and owners comparing notes, which is how Supercharger pricing changes usually surface.
What changed
| Site | New rate |
|---|---|
| Magdeburg-Rothensee (A2) | 20 ct/kWh off-peak, 36 ct peak |
| Köln Flughafen | from 29 ct/kWh |
| Troisdorf | from 29 ct/kWh |
| Hilden | 37 ct/kWh |
Magdeburg-Rothensee is now the cheapest Supercharger in Germany. Its off-peak window runs from 23:00 to 09:00, and the rate there fell from 22 to 20 cents, which is a small move taken on its own.
The broader change is at peak. Teslamag and Schmidtisblog both report peak tariffs at many German sites now sitting between 36 and 39 cents/kWh, with reductions of up to 10 cents. That is the part that reaches drivers who cannot choose when they charge.
Why 20 cents is a striking number
German fast charging in 2026 is expensive. Ad-hoc DC charging, meaning walk up with no contract, sat at about 62 cents/kWh in August. Contract tariffs run roughly 39 to 55 cents, and EnBW's YOY subscription, widely cited as the best value in the German market, charges 43 cents/kWh on top of 5.99 euros a month.
Against that, a Tesla peak rate of 36 to 39 cents undercuts most contract tariffs while requiring no contract at all, and the 20-cent off-peak floor is under half the cheapest mainstream subscription rate.
It also lands three days after the BDEW survey of German EV drivers, which found 59% of them comparing prices from one session to the next. In a market where drivers shop per charge, a 10-cent cut is a competitive move whether or not Tesla frames it as one.
There is no single German price
Tesla prices each site separately and by time of day, so no national figure exists. The cuts are also uneven. Reports cluster in the west, particularly around North Rhine-Westphalia, while stations in Saxony and parts of Berlin still show up to 60 cents/kWh. Checking your own route in the app remains the only way to know what you will pay.
What it means elsewhere in Europe
Nothing directly. This is a German price change, and there is no sign of matching cuts in neighbouring markets. Tesla sets Supercharger tariffs country by country and site by site, so a move in North Rhine-Westphalia implies nothing about Austria, Czechia or the Netherlands.
It is still worth knowing if you drive through. Germany is the transit country for a large share of European long-distance routes, and these tariffs apply to the car at the stall rather than to where it is registered. A Czech or Dutch driver crossing Germany overnight on the A2 pays the same 20 cents as a local one.
Non-Tesla drivers get the cuts too
Nearly all German Superchargers are open to other brands, as they are in Poland and much of the rest of Europe. A non-Tesla driver pays more by default, but a Supercharger membership, at 9.99 euros a month or 100 euros a year after Tesla reduced it from 12.99 euros in April 2024, buys the same per-kWh price a Tesla driver pays. With ad-hoc rates elsewhere at 55 cents and above, that subscription pays for itself sooner the more charging moves to the new rates.
The caveat
Prices that fall overnight without an announcement can rise the same way. Tesla has adjusted Supercharger tariffs without notice before, and nothing here is a commitment. Petrol and diesel are getting more expensive and German electricity prices are expected to rise towards the end of the year, which makes a broad unannounced cut notable, but is not evidence that it will last the winter.