Compare Rapid Charging Services

Rapid charging is a quick way to get charging on a large number of locations across the country. For this category we include anything above 40kW and up to 100kW.

Price comparison of EV Networks offering Rapid Charging

	Charging network	Service	Indicative cost per mile
Electric AFR comparison			9p

	EB Charging	Rapid March 2023	11.48p

	Tesla	Supercharger (Owners & Members) March 2023	11.67p (off-peak)

	Pod Point	Tesco Rapid March 2023	14.29p

	Tesla	Supercharger Peak Hours (Owners & Members) March 2023	14.53p

Diesel AFR comparison			15p

Petrol AFR comparison			15p

	BP Pulse	50kW Rapid (Members) March 2023	15.72p

	Tesla	Supercharger (Non-Members) March 2023	15.76p (off-peak)

	Fastned	Members March 2023	16.23p

	Geniepoint	Off-Peak Hours March 2023	16.29p (off-peak)

	Liberty Charge	Membership March 2023	17.96p

	Gridserve	Gridserve Electric Forecourt March 2023	18.29p

	Dragon Charging	Dragon Charging March 2023	18.58p

	Pod Point	Lidl Rapid March 2023	18.58p

	Gridserve	Gridserve Electric Highway (Medium Power) March 2023	18.58p

Average			18.59p

	Liberty Charge	PAYG March 2023	18.86p

	Tesla	Supercharger Peak Hours (Non-Members) March 2023	18.9p

	BP Pulse	50kW Rapid (Instant) March 2023	19.15p

	ESB Energy	Rapid Taxi Members March 2023	19.43p

	Mer Charging	Rapid (Registered Users) March 2023	19.72p

	Ionity	Ionity Direct March 2023	19.72p

	BP Pulse	50kW Rapid (Contactless) March 2023	19.72p

	ESB Energy	Rapid Members March 2023	20.24p

	Mer Charging	Rapid (Contactless) March 2023	20.58p

	ESB Energy	Rapid PAYG March 2023	20.86p

	Fastned	PAYG March 2023	20.86p

	ESB Energy	Rapid Contactless March 2023	20.94p

	Geniepoint	Peak Hours March 2023	21.43p

	Instavolt	Instavolt Rapid March 2023	21.43p

	Motor Fuel Group	EV Power March 2023	22.58p

	Osprey	PAYG March 2023	22.58p

	Shell	Shell Recharge Rapid March 2023	22.81p

	Charging network	Service	Cost per kWh
	EB Charging	Rapid March 2023	40.16p^‡

	Tesla	Supercharger (Owners & Members) March 2023	40.83p^‡ (off-peak)

	Pod Point	Tesco Rapid March 2023	50p

	Tesla	Supercharger Peak Hours (Owners & Members) March 2023	50.83p^‡

	Fastned	Members March 2023	51.10p

	BP Pulse	50kW Rapid (Members) March 2023	55p

	Tesla	Supercharger (Non-Members) March 2023	55.14p^‡ (off-peak)

	Geniepoint	Off-Peak Hours March 2023	57p (off-peak)

	Liberty Charge	Membership March 2023	60p

	Gridserve	Gridserve Electric Forecourt March 2023	64p

Average			64.6p

	Dragon Charging	Dragon Charging March 2023	65p

	Pod Point	Lidl Rapid March 2023	65p

	Gridserve	Gridserve Electric Highway (Medium Power) March 2023	65p

	Liberty Charge	PAYG March 2023	66p

	Tesla	Supercharger Peak Hours (Non-Members) March 2023	66.14p^‡

	BP Pulse	50kW Rapid (Instant) March 2023	67p

	ESB Energy	Rapid Taxi Members March 2023	68p

	ESB Energy	Rapid Members March 2023	68p

	Mer Charging	Rapid (Registered Users) March 2023	69p

	Ionity	Ionity Direct March 2023	69p

	BP Pulse	50kW Rapid (Contactless) March 2023	69p

	Mer Charging	Rapid (Contactless) March 2023	72p

	ESB Energy	Rapid Contactless March 2023	73p

	ESB Energy	Rapid PAYG March 2023	73p

	Fastned	PAYG March 2023	73p

	Geniepoint	Peak Hours March 2023	75p

	Instavolt	Instavolt Rapid March 2023	75p

	Motor Fuel Group	EV Power March 2023	79p

	Osprey	PAYG March 2023	79p

	Shell	Shell Recharge Rapid March 2023	79p

‡ Indicates that the cost-per-kwh has been calculated as an average.

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