Tesla Adds Dynamic Supercharger Pricing to 550+ Locations

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Yep, I feel that in NJ.  Have been used to the 0.20-0.24, and now it's seems like they are all higher....  The 'low' prices are 33 cents min, not sure how high the max goes.  I mean, it makes sense with the stupid electricity prices, but it was nice while it lasted

Wait they weren’t all dynamic before?

They were time based seemingly off usage data but now they can fluctuate more frequently throughout the day. So before a supercharger may have had 2-3 peak and off peak windows, now the prices can change all day and not based on a schedule.

Not only is it throughout the day it seems like 2 people could arrive at the same time and the second person to plug in could get a higher price if the first one pushes it over the tier

Started in my area in Cali on Friday 11/14. Off Peak was: 30c 10PM-8AM Peak was: 46c 8AM-10PM Now with Dynamic Low: 33c Mid: 47c High: 53c

But theoretically you could pay the low price mid day, right? I’ve seen so many superchargers just sitting empty all day as I road trip

Correct! 12 stall looks like this for open spaces. 10-12 .33c 9-7 .47c 6-0 .53c

If Tesla, as a company, keeps having revenue growth issues, unfortunately the SC system will be milked. Hopefully their competitors get their act together....

I highly doubt they're having revenue issues considering they're about to dive into the world of robotic helpers. Just because a company is trying to squeeze more money out of different areas, doesn't mean they're struggling. The keyboard warriors really need a new hobby.

While I have a distaste for Tesla. These people drive me nuts. So many other things to go after them on. These people don't seem to pay attention to power prices in the country.

I can sort of see the intent if the execution is done well but also not the biggest fan, I'm not buying it at all that the average price per session is going to stay the same

NJ as well. They made the one closest to our home dynamic. It's a 6 car stall and it's .33¢ up to two cars. After that it's .36¢ and I assume with 5+ cars it's .43¢ where as it was .20¢ from 11pm-8am and .42¢ in between. The stalls by my office are not dynamic but increased the fee from .19¢ to .22¢ from 11pm-8am

This is BS. They are trying to make it sound as if it was a great feature. Nobody cares about it and they did it to have excuse to raise prices. My closest supercharger went from $0.21 to $0.31/kWh Very disappointed with Tesla lately.

Optimus, as it currently demonstrated, is a decade+ from being viable. Things may change, but it's not within a few years. Their revenue growth is the issue, not the revenue itself. Sales growth of cars have slowed dramatically

Electricity rates have gone up YoY, especially in datacenter-heavy states.

> I highly doubt they're having revenue issues considering they're about to dive into the world of robotic helpers. Although it's common for companies to start diversifying when they see their primary revenue source starting to decline.

This is great and all, but Tesla is itself navigating me to the SuperChargers. I’m not a passenger, I can’t just micromanage each Supercharger’s current price along the way, I’m driving. Is the navigation doing this in the background on long travels? I would hope it is intelligently navigating all cars to choose the less busy Superchargers. To add to this, the biggest issue I see is the need to upgrade all of those 150Kw stations that take an hour to charge your car in a trip. That will greatly reduce congestion and get cars charged and back on the road.

I’m confused, why would they add this? I understand congestion fees to help get people to leave after 80% if full, but why charge more if more people are there? The electricity costs the same, and there’s still congestion fees to get people to leave if full.

We haven’t seen Optimus operate in any meaningful way without a teleoperator. Any promises that it’s coming soon are bullshit at best.

Like the article says it's about load balancing more than anything.

Gotta pay for Elon’s new package

this is stupid. How can it help to push demand to less congested time, when I can’t even know which times are cheaper?

What taste are you getting?

This is exactly why we will always have one gas powered vehicle in the family and home charging.. too much reliance on a company’s services makes me susceptible to these types of BS.

Only supercharge on a trip. There aren’t any options and even if there was, I wouldn’t go out of my way to use the or price compare. Never price compared gas station prices when I needed to fill up.

54c in California.

There is a new charging station near where I live. It has 65 stalls and has been changing price since day one. It was .38 after 10pm, then it changed to .38 after 12. The normal hour price was .42, then went up to .48, now it is .54. It all happened in less than 6 months. The site is pretty dead and has only 10 cars charging most of the time. It is like 20% occupied

Slowly making the case for EVs even less appealing. Wait 40 minutes to charge and pay even more than a tank of gas.

> ~~If Tesla, as a company, keeps having revenue growth issues, unfortunately~~ the SC system will be milked. Tesla has invested a huge amount of money in the SC system. They have the largest most reliable fast charging network in USA. Of course they're going to start to leverage their market dominance and raise prices. It has nothing to do with the overall health of the company. This is basic business 101, how to make more money.

Meanwhile, the nearest one to me increased the top price to 0.47 (was 0.36) before the change to dynamic. Overnight is 0.25, was 0.22.

Not by 50%

Am I assuming correctly that these show dynamic vs time-based pricing? It's not really labeled. [https://imgur.com/a/4bvAdFt](https://imgur.com/a/4bvAdFt) (from [tesla.com/findus](http://tesla.com/findus) )

Right? If the real reason is to manage congestion, they would simply build something into navigation to prioritize less busy charging stations rather than rely on the consumer to choose.

Looked at a few stations near me (Bay Area) about half seemed to have switched over to dynamic pricing. I am not completely against it. One of the nearest ones actually was way cheaper than it normally would have been at this hour but this just seems super shady. How often does it update? Would it change mid charge? Would it change en route? The opacity just seems like it will cause at lot of annoyances.

Commercial rates have gone up 50% at peak times in some locations.

There is a 6 stall SC location near me that is always full, cars waiting. Less than a mile away, there is a newer V4 16 stall location that is never even half full, and it's cheaper! Also, since preconditioning the battery needs a nav destination, hopefully Tesla will be sending people to the lowest priced location in their area with cost per kw locked in when nav starts. Just a thought.

Greenfield wisconsin at the Meijer was $.50/kWh yesterday afternoon. Half the stalls were free. Charged my Volvo.

> at peak times What about off peak hours where SC prices went up by 50%?

They're up too, but more like 10-25%, not 50%. Not having demand pricing based on electricity pricing shows Tesla is probably trying to make more money on Supercharging. I wonder if rates for non-Tesla vehicles with demand pricing is even higher now.

realistically it’s around $0.45 in socal. but yeah it’s high compared to the $0.33 low peak fee

i believe this only applies to busy superchargers in dense regions. if you look at the road trip superchargers in california, none of them have this dynamic pricing

same experience in north NJ, off peak used to be .18-21. with peak being .46-.53. Peak stayed the same non peak doubled.

good for you. before I owned an EV, Gas Buddy was my Bible.

Did you actively plan where you would stop for gas when traveling?

> Charged my Volvo Sorry 😢

It’s a 50% increase in my area. Off peak rates were .21 cents but now it is .33 minimum.

I usually get caught at $0.50-$0.60 between lax Vegas and LA.

I did. Looked for the Costco's and Sam Clubs along the way.

we got hit in California, my closet supercharger was 22 cents now the lowest is 33. It jumped to 53 when I was enroute. It’s stupid. Charging prices have to be predictable like gasoline for mass adoption. I know high demand equals higher energy costs but my area has cheap electricity compared to the rest of the state.

This should be illegal! There should be an advertised price that doesn’t change if someone beats me to the line!

So only more expensive…never cheaper.

They are talking about what the commercial rate not what’s being passed on to you.

So long as it’s still marginally cheaper than gas, I’m not too upset if the prices jump a lil bit. The extra income to Tesla could help fund better/more supercharger locations too

"Haha enjoy being stranded if you can't pay our extortion price!"

Why would Tesla try to minimize the money they make from you?

Sadly, it doesn’t sound like most of you know how anything works. Progress is iterative, not immediate. You would be the keyboard warriors trolling the Wright brothers that their prototype plane is a POS that doesn’t immediately fly 200 people for their test flight. Or that computers are useless cause who wants a mainframe the size of a room to compute anything. Go read a book or something…

I think it’s more like we know how timeframes work and when we’re being blatantly lied to. Critical thinking skills.

No, you’re just entitled. You don’t know shit. The fact that you think new discoveries and new inventions must fit within some timeline you randomly made up proves it. Do you know how many people work on these things or the engineering efforts it takes to solve problems never seen before? Can you even name one challenge they’re working on? No. All you’re doing is sitting in a basement judging everyone else and getting upset you don’t get a new toy to play yesterday.

No one thinks they fit in timelines except Elon little buddy. Because he keeps attaching them. Keep up, I know it’s hard.

This is crap, the price has changed on me enroute like 4 times already.

Hate it. Ruined my whole routine.

Basically if you and two others show up expect to go from low to medium, and half occupancy brings you to peak, almost 2x of a solo supercharger. I guess they wanted to deter congestion and this works great!

I think it’s fractions, above a quarter goes to mid, above half to high or somesuch. I need to recheck

Yeah, it’s the ones in the towns usually, and sometimes not the 150, or god forbid one of the rare 72 kW

Switched from time of use to total occupancy at time of use

Yeah, this happened to me at a supercharger when I went into the sprouts market, came out and was billed at a much higher rate. Very annoyed since I had started out at the lower rate. I guess no more errands if you want to be cheap about your charging, disconnect when people show up

Yeah, I used to love that 21 cent charging in Turlock when driving Central Valley in early morning or late night

Huh, what’s the commercial rate from pg&e? Now I’m curious

It’ll change on the fly. As far as I can tell if you get upgraded to a higher tier it stays that way. I don’t know when it calculates the final rate (when you disconnect?)

Or worse, it changes while youre charging, which is what it did to me.

Some are still on old time of hse

Yep, this.

Why did they pull the article? Hmm

So PHEVs have trade-off against BEVs. You can get gas on the trip and home charging at home in exchange of ICE maintenance and less efficiency. I haven't done $/mile calculations, but I'm inclined to PHEVs now.

It’s .33 all the time here in Missouri. Never seen it cheaper.

Same for 95% of the superchargers in south Florida. My local supercharger (in town) used to have reduced rates at .21 per kWh from 10pm-8am, and now it’s .31 per kWh most of the time.

I noticed the same for my area (Treasure Coast area, Florida). Where are you?

Used to be able to get $.28 in California. Lots of places now at $.30. Tesla just increased all locations since not alot of people are purchasing Teslas now. Gotta get that money somehow.

Completely ruined Tesla for me. I will not be getting one as my next car. As someone who strictly charged via supercharging and took advantage of the 20 cent rates in the morning before work, this just killed me. Thanks Tesla.

Yea i already bearly supercharged, now just not going to

Upper East Side, Miami, Florida.

If it ain't broke, then don't try to fix it. Tesla just broke their supercharger system.

They’re probably scrambling for a boost to alternative revenue streams given the drop in US sales with the loss of the $7500 credit. Now that more cars have NACS ports and adapters they can become like a gas station company 😆

They should implement transparent pricing. Cost of electricity paid to utility. Cost paid for infrastructure build out (e.g. depreciation over useful life). Maintenance. Profit. Their profit is very small, known because of their financials, I think this would help show that they're just passing on electricity costs and whatnot.

Lol like the stickers at the gas pumps (at least in Canada)

Here’s the issue, Tesla claims that the price you start at is the price you finish at. I don’t believe that remotely. Even more so my local chargers aren’t actually switching over to low peak costs during low peak times. On my Tesla it’s still showing me and charging me for .47 even when it’s supposed to be .33

In NJ might be cheaper to charge on the Turnpike now

It's actually quite empty during mid day yesterday when the charger first switched to live pricing! You just have to watch in the car as someone leave and it changes from 0.47 to 0.33 and you immediately plug it in to lock in the price. I am thinking all those local folks who didn't know about this charge must be really upset when they all show up at 12am and see that they got the $0.53 price because everyone still thinks that's the cheapest time to charge!

Low was 0.21 in Miami, now low is 0.31, peak is the same at 0.38. However it’s always high congestion even at night (not enough chargers) so effectively it’s always 0.38 now which is absurd

Supercharging getting to the point where it is no longer worth using as it is getting close to costing similar to gas.

Fort Lauderdale prices are double from 10pm to 6am. It used to be 21c, now its 36 or even 40c sometimes during the low-usage. Such a BS.

I feel I got cheated. I bought my model 3 in June, 2025 base on how much I can afford including charging my car before 8am. Now the cost is double! If I knew this I would not buy it.

Sacramento CA here shit has like doubled at my local charging station not to mention it’s $2 to enter the parking structure SMH Was 22 on low times haven’t seen it less than 47 in at least a week

Loving that lifetime free supercharging…

Why are we restricted to 80 percent when on a road trip 250 miles from home with my lousy range in my cyber truck? Tesla is racking it in on overcharges. Coming home from surgery, we were charged 49 dollars and change to fill cyber truck at an 80 percent charger with 3 other cars there. I could have driven my gas Audi for that. I feel like after loosing 40 thousand dollars in value and completely inaccurate estimated range, let's pour salt on the wound. Think about the revenue for nothing he is generating. It is a revenue stream, nothing more.

Problem is competition is charging like 53cents/kwh,

Yep was at 18 cents beginning of year by my north jersey and for many months was at 22nd a now the one I usually go to is at 39 cents even when I went this morning at 430 am.. but now I found another one same distance from home and at 31 cents. Just more off road and lights etc. such bs man i can see 22-26 whatever but a 50% increase roughy depending where u are is ridiculous

Only makes sense for the consumer if night pricing reflects the change. Otherwise this is Tesla turning the screws on the market they have a solid grip on.

I mean u should see competition pricing, its just a scam. The rivian ones are like almost 60 cents

Doesn't surprise me. But in the 7+ years I've had a Tesla I've never successfully charged at a non-Tesla charger. They are always broken. :(

A 50% increase in commercial rates might be 1 to 4 cents higher we kWh. They’re raising the prices on customers by over a dime, ultimately making it far more profitable to Tesla. The commercial rates in Kansas are around 2 cents per kWh but the cheapest supercharger is 0.33 per kWh. This idea that Tesla is operating in the best interest in f consumers is 100% wrong. They’re systematically trying to wring out customers as much as possible. If the continued price increases continue, my next car will 100% not be a Tesla.

Every SuperCharger site probably has to pay ~25k/mo (primary, secondary and substation plus demand charges see [this](https://www.bpu.com/Portals/0/pdf/July-1-2025-Rate-book-Manual-for-website.pdf)) just to get power, then it's $0.01089/KWh metered + SuperCharge Equipment and lease costs. I'm sure they're making some profit, but I don't think it's nearly as much as you imply from the simple $0.02/KWh claim. It's definitely way cheaper if you can charge at home though.

I know there are other costs associated with supercharges beyond electricity but I can assure you that Tesla is going to squeeze customers for every single penny they can. If car sales have truly slowed down, the stock price will eventually hit free fall. I fully expect premium connectivity prices to get jacked up and I expect every other service to get more expensive. Glass coverage already increased 33%. I like my MY Juniper but I feel a little vulnerable to the actions of Tesla. I don’t feel in control of my cost structure going forward. My more immediate concern is that insurance costs are going to force me to sell the car. It’s not that I can’t afford more costly insurance, it’s just that it doesn’t make sense to pay so much in insurance that an F-150 would offer a cheaper total cost of ownership. There isn’t much of a reason to own a Tesla if the total cost of ownership is higher than an inefficient ICE.

This is not true, at least in CA where I live. The time schedule remains, but they added the dynamic pricing which only allows a few cars at night and in the morning to receive the cheaper price. If you charge noon and no one is there its still the high price. I'm up at 5am to charge and run and there are NO cheap chargers available. Royally pissed at Tesla at the moment

In CA I pay between 49c and 59c a kwh. Its not cheaper to charge at home... this sucks

I thought in CA everyone had solar panels, so many incentives out there. In Illinois I only pay $0.02/kwh or less at night, although delivery and taxes are like $0.08/kwh now.

PG&E, our public but privately owned monopoly power company, is managed by Gavin Newsom's goons. They burnt down Paradise CA, killing several people, went bankrupt, and Gavins goons (CPUC) has been handing PG&E rate increase after rate increase which has lead to our current situation. They're now recording best ever profits at our expense and they're probably going to approve another rate hike again. Gavin also tanked the solar industry. He allowed PG&E to change how they're allowed to payback solar customers who produce energy. New solar customers get 1/4 the credits for the electricity they earn, making it impossible to get a decent ROI. It quadrupled the time the system will pay for itself. Gavin has royally fucked CA in so many ways. Heaven forbid he somehow becomes President. Even democrats will be begging for Trump if he does.