About a year ago, we saw headlines in the media portraying Latvia’s fast charging prices as among the highest in all of Europe, as well as the rest of the Baltics. Our unique analysis found that this is false.
Eleport analyzed EV fast charging prices across thousands of charging networks in 29 European countries to see how much EV drivers actually pay in each country. Because until now, reliably comparing these prices has been nearly impossible.
What did Eleport find? We found that fast charging prices in Europe can cost more than double for every kWh charged on average, purely depending on which country you are in. This is why we created a leaderboard for each of the countries, and now we can take a closer look at what we found for Latvia.
When it comes to EV sales, Latvia, like the rest of the Baltics, is still below the European average, albeit growing: 1 602 EVs were sold in 2025, growing +27,3% year-over-year.
Despite the strong growth, the Latvian EV market share fell from 7,3% to 7,1% as the car market in total managed to grow even slightly more. This puts Latvia in the 23rd spot in EV adoption in Europe.
How much does fast charging cost in Latvia? It turns out from our analysis that Latvia is the third-cheapest country in all of Europe to fast charge your EV in, with 0.40€/kWh on average. It is actually even tied with Lithuania in the third and fourth place.
So, the average (median) fast charging price that an EV driver gets through paying right at the station (ad-hoc) or through a free subscription or app use, is 0.40€/kWh. This is quite significant considering the median for Europe in general is 0.54€/kWh, and the cheapest public EV charging on average is in Finland, which came in at €0.38/kWh.
Here’s how the fast charging operators in Latvia compare in pricing in 2026:
Overall, we found that the EV fast charging prices in Europe do not directly indicate how well the country is doing in EV adoption.
Some insights that we found to be unique to Latvia across our European comparison:
Latvia’s Virši fuel chain offers the most granular power-tiered DC pricing we have found in Europe: six tiers that are incrementally based on the power offered, from €0.28 (40kW) to €0.42 (320–400kW). To compare, most CPOs use two or three tiers, and some just settle with a single one.
Eleport is priced just below the EV public charging cost median in Latvia, at 0.39€/kWh for most locations, with a few exceptions at 0.44€/kWh.
The legacy e-mobi/CSDD network still charges per minute (€0.23/min) rather than per kWh — a relic where the price is especially dependent on how much your vehicle can pull, and such we can not compare it directly in the cheapest EV charging list. Nowadays, the e-mobi stations, like many others in Latvia, can be activated with the Mobilly app.
IONITY seems not to have taken a look at most of the competition for public EV charging cost in Latvia for a while, since it is currently at nearly double the kWh price from the next spot, with its 0.71€/kWh price. Even the 0.42€/kWh membership pricing at €11.99 per month doesn’t bring it a better ranking in the public EV charging cost leaderboard this time.
Tesla supercharging price in Latvia is somewhat of an outlier given that the network, unlike in most European countries, is (yet) not available to all vehicles – Tesla owners in Latvia pay 0.38€ per kWh as of February 2026.
So, how much does fast charging cost in Latvia? It depends on which charging operator you visit, but if you can avoid the highest-priced, the median comes down to €0.40 per kWh, and the lowest public EV charging cost you can find starts at 0.28€ per kWh.
EV charging prices vary significantly across Europe
A total of 2 585 187 battery electric vehicles were sold in Europe in 2025, growing by a strong 29,7% in the full year of 2025. Nearly every 5th car sold in Europe is fully electric today, but just as the EV adoption varies between the countries, the fast charging prices do as well. This is often dependent on the local competitive landscape, grid situation, and overall energy systems as well.
Eleport found that there are no great fast charging price comparison tools in most countries for the 2,6 million new EV drivers that hit the road, and likely even more that go for EVs this year. So we built one.
From this overview, we can see that the 2026 EV charging prices for fast charging can vary from 0.38€/kWh on average in Finland, all the way to €0.82/kWh on average as public EV charging cost in the UK. What’s remarkable is that all of the Baltics made it to the top five, with Lithuania and Latvia tied for third and fourth place, and Estonia closely following in fifth.
The lowest fast charging prices we saw across Europe were at around 0.16€/kWh, and the absolute highest were nearing 1€/kWh.
Is there one charging network in Europe that is the cheapest in 2026? The answer is: almost.
Tesla charging cost came in as the absolute lowest available-to-all price in 18 out of 29 countries, but with a specific caveat – the supercharger price for their off-peak times is what gave them the win. The Tesla charging cost varies significantly per time of day in most countries, and the supercharging cost can often even vary depending on the location itself.
But when taking the median fast charging price of each individual country, and then taking the median of all these 29 European countries, it comes down to 0.54€/kWh as the average fast charging price for all of Europe.
Methodology:
Showing only DC prices, this is our unique overview based on publicly available data and subject to changes.
This research is commissioned by Eleport, put together with the EVwire.com team, with the help of the charging price platform Chargeprice.net. Some country-specific comparison tools used are noted in the relevant country sections.
Notes on the prices shown per CPO:
All ≥50kWh DC power tiers are banded into price ranges in the same cells. Any dynamic pricing is also shown in that price range. The tables are sorted for the best non-commitment price (ad-hoc and free app prices).
To dig deeper, see the complete report: European fast charging price comparison 2026.
