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Tesla charging

Tesla charging

What a charge costs, where you can charge and how the price differs between home and a fast charger. We use real battery capacity based on vehicle age, not the catalogue figure.

2 837
Stations
12
Superchargers
18
Network

Most Tesla owners charge at home overnight and only use the public network on longer trips. The price difference between the two is several-fold — which is exactly why it is worth working out in advance.

Charging calculator

Pick the car, enter what percentage you charge from and to, and add the price per kilowatt-hour. We work out the energy, the cost and the time.

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Charging tariffs

A comparison of per-kilowatt-hour rates across the networks running public chargers. Every figure carries the date we last checked it and where it came from.

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Charging stations

We list 2 837 public charging stations, 12 of them Superchargers. Pick a region or a town.

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Charging at home

Home is the cheapest and most convenient place to charge — the car sits overnight and is full by morning. The difference between a socket and a wallbox is mainly time.

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Charging statistics

Figures we work out from our own data. Treat them as a view of the market, not as official statistics.

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What a full charge costs by model

Tesla Model 3 Standard Range / RWD Tesla Model 3 Long Range Tesla Model 3 Performance Tesla Model Y Standard Range / RWD Tesla Model Y Long Range Tesla Model Y Performance Tesla Model S Long Range Tesla Model S Plaid / Performance Tesla Model X Long Range Tesla Model X Plaid / Performance

Common questions about charging

What does it cost to charge a Tesla?
It depends mostly on where you charge. At home you pay your own electricity rate; at a public fast charger, typically several times that. The calculator above works out the figure for your car.
How many kilowatt-hours does the battery hold?
Roughly 50 to 100 kWh depending on model and variant. The catalogue figure only applies to a new car, though — an older battery holds less. That is why we use a real capacity derived from the battery health of cars on TesList.
Is it better to charge at home or at a Supercharger?
Home is almost always cheaper. Superchargers and other fast chargers make sense on the road, where you are mainly paying for speed. You can compare the two directly in the calculator.
Can a Tesla be charged from an ordinary socket?
It can, but slowly — an ordinary socket delivers only a few kilowatts, so a full charge takes more than a day. That is fine for topping up a few dozen kilometres daily; for regular charging a wallbox is better.
What connector does Tesla use?
In Europe, Type 2 for AC and CCS for DC fast charging. Both go through the same socket on the car. Superchargers in Europe use CCS as well.
Why is there no price for some networks?
Because nobody has yet checked it against the operator current tariff. Rates change and no network publishes them machine-readably. Until we confirm a figure we would rather link the tariff page.
Where do the station locations come from?
From OpenStreetMap, where an open community keeps adding them, and for Superchargers from the supercharge.info database. Both are open and continuously updated, so an individual station may be missing or have incomplete details.
How long does charging a Tesla take?
At an ultra-fast charger a Tesla goes from 10 to 80 % in roughly twenty to thirty minutes. On a wallbox at home it is hours, and from an ordinary socket a whole day.

Looking at a used Tesla?

Charging is only part of the running costs. For cars on TesList you also see battery health read straight from the vehicle, plus a price calculator.

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Station data comes from OpenStreetMap (ODbL licence) and the supercharge.info database. Prices are copied from operator tariffs and each carries the date it was checked.