Electrek reports "Tesla slashes Supercharger prices across Europe"

[WannabeOwner]

"Tesla has slashed Supercharger prices across most markets in Europe as energy prices are stabilizing downward following the crisis"

"Tesla has decided to revise Supercharger prices, down today across almost all European markets. Most markets saw prices reduced by 10 to 20%, with some markets like Spain seeing Supercharger prices down by as much as 25%."

Tesla slashes Supercharger prices across Europe

Tesla has slashed Supercharger prices across most markets in Europe as energy prices are stabilizing downward following the crisis. One...

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[Sean.]

and in the UK…

“coming soon”

 

[spooksman]

and in the UK…

“coming soon”

Two weeks?

 

[MrBadger]

Two weeks?

End of year, definitely…

Actually those in charge of superchargers seem to have a better handle on things they have worked a few minor miracles in the past.

 

[randompixel]

UK also has most expensive electricity in Europe (April 2023 - Price data — HEPI)

 

[Sean.]

End of year, definitely…

Edging down, but very slowly. Maybe for 2024 or 25 eh?

 

[Kaz911]

The reason the UK is "behind" is due to the way price cycles work here. If Nat Gas price drops - then it takes 3 to 6 months to "revert" into the UK consumer bills due to the price points set by the Government. Many other countries change price daily or monthly.

On the positive side it then takes longer for price increases to push through as price increases are delayed with the same amount of time.

 

[NewbieT]

Tesla, as with many things commonly treat the UK as EMEA region. Looking at the SuC prices, peak cost is now c47p down from 52p two weeks ago. I’d call that a price reduction of about 10%.

 

[Fursty Ferret]

The reason the UK is "behind" is due to the way price cycles work here. If Nat Gas price drops - then it takes 3 to 6 months to "revert" into the UK consumer bills due to the price points set by the Government. Many other countries change price daily or monthly.

Bollocks. Look how quickly prices jumped after the Ukraine war started.

 

[DeejUK]

Bollocks. Look how quickly prices jumped after the Ukraine war started.

If you look at the graph earlier in this thread, it shows that energy prices across Europe started going up in September 2021, mostly because of the weather and its impact on renewables. So the start of the Ukraine war certainly made things worse, but its timing coincided with being about six months after prices started going up.

 

[Kaz911]

Apart from that the statistics are based on Average prices. In many EU countries prices change every 1/2 hour based on consumption patterns and availability. So the statistics might not reflect the TRUE price people are actually paying - but usually the average price weighted equally across each 24 hour period.

So statistics might show avg. price of 0.35/kWh - but in reality people paid 0.45/kWh avg. as not many can offset their usage to the middle of the night - or it is hot at noon and you need AC.

Same goes for the UK but in a much more limited version as we do not yet have 100% flexible "demand" based pricing to end consumers. But the 100% flexible demand pricing is the devils work (for the consumer) as it becomes almost impossible to predict when prices will be low and it might change over seasons.

Like Spain in the winter - cheapest period is early afternoon after sun have heated homes. Then cooking AND heating starts early night - and prices quadruple. Prices stay quite high overnight. But in the summer prices are low at night (no heating or AC needed) but fly up during 11am to 4pm due to AC usage.