Tesla Supercharger prices set at £0.20 per kilowatt hour in the UK

Tesla has revealed it will charge new owners of Tesla’s – Model S, Model X and Model 3 – £0.20 per kilowatt hour to use Tesla’s Supercharger network.

Tesla may have stretched the cut-off point for its UK price increase and free Supercharger access, but the deadline is tomorrow. And that means a price rise of 5 per cent will come in to play, and access to Tesla’s Supercharger network will no longer be free.

Tesla has been a bit shy letting on what they’ll charge for Supercharger access for new buyers of Model S and Model X cars – and all Model 3 owners – but it’s been set, in the UK, at a very reasonable £0.20 per kWh.

It’s a similar story across Europe, with most countries in the same ballpark, although Norway – where electricity is cheap as chip – sees a charge of just 13p per kWh.

Part of the reason Tesla is starting to charge is that the Model 3, when it arrives, is going to be on the road in much bigger numbers and be priced much lower, but also because many Model S owners have taken to popping off to their local Supercharger point (if they have one) for a top-up.

They will still be able to do that – as all existing cars, at least for now, will continue to have free access – but for new cars only the first 400 kWh (or around 1,00 miles a year) are free. The rest will be charged.

It still makes driving a Tesla Model S or Model X a very cheap way to go, costing as little as £0.05 per mile.

Although if electricity for charging a Tesla was taxed in the way petrol and diesel is, that would be a very different story.