EV charging cost: what a home charge costs today
Enter battery size, charge level and charging power. The calculator finds the cheapest continuous charging window in the published prices.
Cheapest time to start charging
tomorrow at 02:30
€8.24 for 40.0 kWh from the grid
| Energy into the battery | 36.0 kWh |
| Charging time | 3.75 h |
| Finished at | tomorrow at 06:15 |
| Average all-in price | 20.6 ct/kWh |
Exchange price + 0.00 ct markup + 10.72 ct grid fee + electricity tax 2.05 ct + levies 2.946 ct + concession fee, plus 19% VAT. Standing charge and meter fee not included.
Latest day with prices: 25 October 2026. Day-ahead wholesale prices: Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de (CC BY 4.0), fetched on 24 October 2026. Calculation: Radif Partners
Charging an electric car at home on a dynamic tariff costs the kilowatt-hours drawn from the grid times the all-in price of the quarter hours in which you charge. As an example, a battery with 60 kWh usable capacity charged from 20 to 80% takes in 36 kWh; with an assumed 10% charging loss, 40.0 kWh come from the grid. On an 11 kW wallbox that takes about 3.8 hours, on a 2.3 kW household socket about 17.5 hours. On 25 October 2026, a wallbox charge in Germany costs €8.24 in the cheapest window starting at 02:30 and €10.99 in the dearest starting at 17:00, with the average grid fee, electricity tax, levies, concession fee and VAT but no supplier markup. In the Netherlands, with energy tax and VAT, the same charge costs €4.26 at best and €9.74 at worst. On a socket the charge stretches over so many hours that cheap and dear times mix. The faster you charge, the more precisely the charge hits the cheapest quarter hours.
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One charge on 25 October 2026
| Charge point | Duration | DE best start | DE cost | NL best start | NL cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wallbox 11 kW | 3.75 h | 02:30 | €8.24 | 10:15 | €4.26 |
| Socket 2.3 kW | 17.50 h | 00:00 | €8.28 | 00:00 | €4.39 |
Quarter-hourly prices come from Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de: wholesale electricity prices (CC BY 4.0). A window that runs past midnight can only be found once the next day is published; before that, the search stays within the rest of today.
What the cost includes
The German all-in price includes the average grid fee, electricity tax, levies, concession fee and VAT; the Dutch one includes energy tax from the Environmental Taxes Act (Wbm), articles 59 and 63 (1 January 2026) and VAT. Your supplier’s markup is added once you enter it under “Charging losses, country, tariff”. In Germany every supplier must offer a dynamic tariff to customers with a smart metering system (Energy Industry Act (EnWG), section 41a: dynamic tariffs).
Over a month
If you charge every night or every midday, dynamic electricity tariff with the night profile shows what that adds up to over 30 days against a fixed price. The particularly cheap quarter hours with exchange prices below zero are on negative electricity prices.