Australia's 27c Supercharger rate is a floor, not the network

On a 31 October reading of Tesla's Australian stalls, the middle of the flat-rate list sat at 48 cents a kilowatt-hour. The number that travels, 27 cents, was the bottom of that range, not the typical stall.

The Driven reported the 27-cent price on 22 April at the four-stall Braybrook site in Melbourne, before 8am, and for Tesla vehicles. In the same story, a non-Tesla driver at Braybrook without a membership was at 37 cents. Osborne Park in Perth, opened in that round, was 32 cents for Teslas and as little as 45 cents for other cars. Those were site openings with an hour attached. Tesla does not publish a national tariff card, so a single opening becomes the number people repeat.

EV Log's later pass is the one that tells a driver what the list looked like at the end of October. Flat rates, dated 31 October 2026 on that page, ran from 27 to 49 cents. The median was 48 cents and the average was 45.2 cents. Time-of-use sites, on the same survey, ran from 20 to 63 cents. The floor can be lower than 27 cents in the right hour. The middle of the flat-rate network was still 48.

The stall count on that page should not be read as an October recount. EV Log says its direct-current figures come from Tesla's Find Us listing dated 7 September 2026: 159 locations and 1,088 bays, of which 117 locations and 828 bays were open to other electric cars. Ninety-four sites were flat rate and 65 were time-of-use. The alternating-current destination count is sourced separately, to PlugShare on 30 October.

EV Log lists a Supercharger membership at 9.99 Australian dollars a month that gives other electric cars the Tesla rate. Where a site has tap-and-go, that path bills the non-Tesla price. Someone who uses a Supercharger twice a year does not recover the fee. Someone who uses one every highway weekend might. The gap is not a national constant, so the fee only pays after the driver knows the gap at the site they actually use.

EV Charging Locations, updated 28 October, put Tesla's reported public range at 27 to 74 cents, against Chargefox at 59 to 79 cents and Evie at 58 to 73 cents. The top of the Tesla range is the non-member case, not the Tesla-owner flat rate in the EV Log table. The same guide put South Australia's reference home rate at 41.9 cents. At that tariff, an off-peak Supercharger session can cost less per kilowatt-hour than charging at home on the default offer. Home is still the cheaper habit in most circumstances. It is not automatically cheaper where the reference rate sits above the cheapest public stalls, and it is not cheaper if the home rate in force is the peak rate while the public session is the early stall.

The Driven's 17 October report on Leichhardt is a different product from the April floor. Six stalls, which the story described as the first full V4 cabinet site in Australia, rated at 415 kilowatts each. The reported off-peak prices there were 34 cents for Teslas and 48 cents for other electric cars. The same piece noted other high-power networks approaching 90 cents. A car that can accept 415 kilowatts still pays the site's price, and most cars will not hold the cabinet's peak for the whole session. The rating on the stall does not set the bill. The site, the hour and the membership do.

Before a trip, the check that matches the evidence is the Tesla app for the stall and the hour on the account the driver actually has. A 27-cent Braybrook report from April does not price Leichhardt in October. A 48-cent median does not mean every flat-rate site has moved there. EV Log's own range still starts at 27 cents. It just does not let that number stand in for the other sites.