Polestar has split its European public-charging discount into two paid tiers. In a release issued from Gothenburg on October 2, 2026, the company says Plus costs EUR 7.99 a month and Pro costs EUR 14.99 a month. The free-to-use Polestar Charge account is still there. The new money is for drivers who want a percentage off fast charging.
Polestar’s release aims Plus at people who fast-charge now and then. For that monthly fee, Plus takes 15% off charging at five selected fast-charging networks in each market. Pro is aimed at people who fast-charge often. It takes 30% off at seven selected fast-charging networks in each market, and Ionity is one of the seven. Polestar does not print the other network names in the release. It sends drivers to the Plugsurfing page for the market-by-market list.
The discounted footprint is larger than the previous subscription, Polestar says. Plus covers more than 104,000 charging points across Europe where the discount applies, which the company calls a 26% increase versus the old subscription tier. Pro covers more than 118,000 discounted points, a 43% increase versus that same previous tier. A news post on Polestar’s UK site, dated October 1, describes the same prices and percentages and calls Pro a stronger top tier, with Plus as the new entry point.
What you get without paying the monthly fee
The subscription is a discount, not the only way in. Polestar says Polestar Charge comes with the purchase of a Polestar, including cars from the pre-owned programme. Every user, paying or not, gets the same underlying access: more than 1.25 million public charging points across Europe, through one account, the app, and a charge card. The network includes Tesla Superchargers.
Compatible cars can use Plug & Charge. Route planning can filter for points that sit inside the Polestar Charge network, including when the route is built in Google Maps. Polestar’s wording is that drivers can charge almost anywhere across Europe on the go through that single account. It does not publish a standard price per kilowatt-hour in this release, so the 15% and 30% figures are discounts against whatever the regular fast-charging price is at those networks, not a capped rate you can budget from the press note alone.
Olivier Loedel, Polestar’s head of product software management, said the point of the split is fit. “Polestar Charge provides users with one of Europe’s largest and most convenient charging ecosystems,” he said. “Now, thanks to this expanded offer, we make it even more affordable for customers to benefit from savings on fast charging through subscription options that suit their needs and driving habits.”
Polestar also says subscribers see savings after the first full charge. That is the company’s claim about the math. The release does not show a sample session price, so it does not show how many kilowatt-hours it takes before EUR 7.99 or EUR 14.99 is covered.
How busy the network already is
Use is the other number Polestar put on the release. Over June, July, and August 2026, Polestar drivers logged 161,000 charging sessions through the service. The company calls that a record for the platform. Michael Lohscheller, Polestar’s CEO, tied the product to day-to-day trips rather than to a new car launch: “With Polestar Charge, we make sure our drivers have convenient access to public charging, affordable charging discounts, and we turn range anxiety into a thing of the past.”
The offer is a Europe charging product. Polestar says its cars are sold in 31 markets across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, and this release is about the European public network, not a US Supercharger membership.
Sessions on that Tesla hardware do not always end cleanly. If a Supercharger stop sticks and the car will not release, the emergency drive-away steps Tesla documents are covered in our Supercharger drive-away walkthrough.
