One app. One account. Thousands of charging points across Italy.
Driving an electric car to Italy is easier than the distance suggests. From Calais, Milan is about 1,090 km — a long day or an easy two — through France and the Mont Blanc or Fréjus tunnel, and the fast charging runs the whole way: French service areas to the tunnel mouth, then the Italian autostrade south. Italy now has more than 84,000 public charge points, with charging at over half of its motorway service areas, most of it DC, and AC posts in every town — and easyCharging helps UK EV drivers use them without learning a new system.
Whether you’re rolling out of the Mont Blanc tunnel into the Aosta valley or plugging into a post in a Tuscan hill town, easyCharging works exactly as it does at home — one app, a price you see before you plug in, and charging you can rely on.
Before or during your journey, open the easyCharging app to find charging points across Italy — from motorway service areas to town-centre posts, hotels and shopping centres. Check power, pricing and live availability before you arrive.
Park at the charging bay and plug in — Italian AC posts are Type 2 sockets rather than tethered cables, so keep your own cable in the boot. Start the session in the easyCharging app, or tap your RFID key tag on the reader if mobile signal is weak.
On the autostrade, the DC fast chargers at the service areas are made for a short stop — long enough for a coffee and a panino at the bar. In towns, an AC post suits lunch, a museum or an overnight stay; just remember that a charging bay is for charging, so unplug and move on within an hour of finishing, or by morning if you finish overnight. You can monitor progress live in the app.
Stop charging in the app, unplug and continue your journey. Payment is handled automatically and you’ll receive a receipt instantly — no subscriptions, no monthly invoices.
easyCharging gives you access to AC, fast and ultra-fast chargers across Italy — on the autostrade, in cities, at hotels, supermarkets and shopping centres — as part of a network of 900,000+ charging points across Europe.
View all charging points in the easyCharging app and filter by connector, charging speed and availability — including rapid DC chargers along the A1, A4, A14 and A22.
Find the right charger instantly while travelling.
Cities with strong coverage: Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, Rome and Naples.
City guides: Rome · Milan · plus live coverage in Turin, Bologna, Florence and Naples.
Many UK EV drivers discover that charging in Italy often means downloading new local apps, setting up new accounts and loading prepaid credit — and the same again in France, Switzerland or Austria on the way down. easyCharging lets you charge across Italy using the same app and account you already use at home.
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See charging prices upfront — per kWh, session or minute — so you know exactly what you’ll pay before charging in Italy, where the ad-hoc price at a post can be a different number from the price on a card.
No subscriptions, no prepaid credit to load. You’re charged instantly after each session — just like at home in the UK.
Every charging session in Italy appears in your history — locations, costs and energy usage, all in one app.
Favourite the service areas on your run south, or the post outside your hotel, for faster access and live availability.
easyCharging supports all major EV brands and the connectors used across Italy and the UK — Type 2 at the AC posts, CCS at the rapid hubs.
Start charging with the app or use your easyCharging RFID key tag — useful in underground car parks or wherever mobile signal is weak.
Start and stop charging instantly using the easyCharging app or our RFID key tag. Ideal when travelling abroad, in underground car parks, or in an Alpine valley where mobile signal is weak.
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From the Alpine tunnels to Rome, and on down to Naples, these are the routes UK EV drivers travel most in Italy — and where easyCharging helps keep journeys simple and predictable.
The direct road from the Channel. Reims, Dijon and the Geneva bypass pass under the wheels, then the 11.6 km Mont Blanc tunnel drops you into the Aosta valley — €55.50 one way for a car in 2026, €69.20 for a return used within a week, paid at the booth by card — and the A5 runs down to Turin’s ring and the A4 on to Milan, about 1,090 km in all. French service areas carry fast charging all the way to Chamonix, and the Italian side picks up at once in the Aosta valley; easyCharging shows both sides live, so the last French top-up and the first Italian one are planned before you leave the M20.
The all-motorway alternative, and the one to prefer on a night when Mont Blanc is closed for maintenance: the A43 up the Maurienne to the Fréjus tunnel at Modane, the same toll as Mont Blanc for a car, then the A32 down the Susa valley to Turin, where the A4 runs east to Milan and the A21 and A1 lead south towards Bologna and Florence. In winter the A32 requires winter tyres or chains on board when the tyre-and-chain sign is shown, snow or not. Fast charging sits at the service areas on both sides of the tunnel and around Turin’s ring, all shown live in the app.
The Autostrada del Sole is the spine of the country and the best-equipped road in it for an EV: fast charging at service areas roughly every 50 km, nearly all of it DC. Bologna is two hours from Milan, Florence another hour over the Apennines and Rome three hours beyond — the climb between Bologna and Florence is the only real one, so charge on the flat before it on a summer weekend, when the service areas fill up. easyCharging shows live availability the whole way.
Just over two hours down the A1 to Naples, with Pompeii, Sorrento and the Amalfi coast beyond on the A3. Charging thins out south of Rome, so top up before you leave the capital and keep the app’s live view of the Campania service areas open — this is the stretch of Italy where a little planning pays.
East along the A4 through Bergamo and Brescia to Verona and Lake Garda in an hour and a half, and on to Venice in about three. The Po plain is the best-charged region in Italy and the A4’s service areas are thick with fast chargers, so this is the corridor where range is least of a worry. Venice itself has no roads — charge on the mainland at Mestre before the causeway and leave the car at the edge.
For drivers who come through Germany and Austria: an Austrian vignette to Innsbruck, a €12.50 section toll for the A13 up to the pass, then the A22 ticket down through South Tyrol and Trento to Verona, where the A4 leads west to Milan and the A14 runs the length of the Adriatic coast to Rimini and Bari. Winter tyres or chains on board are compulsory on the whole A22 from 15 November to 15 April, snow or not. The app shows chargers on both sides of the pass, so the stop in Austria and the first stop in Italy are planned together.
Every summer, thousands of drivers point their electric cars south toward Italy — over the Brenner, through the Gotthard, or down the coast. The good news is that the charging landscape on these corridors is now dense and fast. This guide walks the routes south the way an EV driver sees them: not turn by turn, but charger by charger — where the fast charging sits, what changes at each border, and how to keep it all on one app and one free card.
Crossing a border in an electric car used to mean a different app, a different card and a different account in every country. It doesn't have to. This guide shows how to charge your EV anywhere in Europe with one app, one free RFID card and live pricing — so you can see what a session costs before you plug in, even in a country you've never driven through.
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Answers to the most common questions from UK electric vehicle drivers — covering charging, payments, tolls, restricted zones and travelling to Italy.
Yes. easyCharging shows charging points at Italian motorway service areas, including fast and ultra-fast chargers along the A1, A4, A14 and A22. More than half of Italy’s service areas now have charging, and nearly all of it is DC.
Italy had 84,564 public charge points at the end of June 2026, about seven in ten of them AC posts — typically 22 kW in towns and at hotels, suited to a few hours or overnight. On the motorways it is the other way round: nearly nine in ten of the 1,516 motorway points are DC, most of those deliver more than 150 kW, and the newest reach 400 kW. Actual speed depends on your vehicle and battery state.
No. easyCharging has no subscription fees and nothing to load in advance. You only pay for the charging sessions you actually use — in Italy and across Europe.
Payments are billed instantly after each charging session and you receive a receipt in the app. Italian tariffs are set per kWh, and many operators add an occupancy fee per minute if the car stays plugged in after charging ends — usually from an hour after the session finishes — which is why the app shows the price of every charger before you plug in.
Yes. easyCharging supports all major EV brands and the connector types used by UK vehicles, including CCS and Type 2. Italian AC posts are Type 2 sockets rather than tethered cables, so bring your own cable; some also carry a smaller Type 3A socket, which is for scooters and microcars and not for you.
Yes. The easyCharging RFID key tag works at compatible charging stations across Italy and is especially useful in underground car parks, in mountain valleys or wherever mobile signal is weak.
Yes. easyCharging shows live charger status, pricing, connector types and power output so you can plan ahead before arriving.
Under EU rules, every public charger installed since April 2024 must accept a payment without a contract, and new fast chargers of 50 kW and more must take bank cards — so the newest motorway hubs have a card reader. Most town AC posts still don’t: older ones need a charge card or an app, and newer ones usually offer a QR-code web payment at the operator’s ad-hoc price, often higher than in an app. Using easyCharging gives consistent access and a clear price across operators.
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easyCharging offers access to a vast network of 900,000+ charging points across Europe
