Stockholm is built on fourteen islands, and the car is the expensive way to see them: the congestion-tax cameras on every road into the inner city charge an electric car like any other. So charge where the car can stay — a fast charger on the E4 or E18, or a kerbside bay any plug-in car may use — and let the metro and the ferries do the rest. The same app and free card you use at home show every point they cover, with its live price, here and right across Sweden.
See the live price before you plug in. One app, one free card — across Stockholm and all of Europe.
Charging in Stockholm is priced per network and per station, and the price for your account is the one the app shows before you plug in: in September 2026, 9.74 kronor per kWh at a 100 kW charger on Kungsholms Hamnplan, plus 1.41 kronor a minute after the first hour. Around the charge come two more costs: street parking at 55 kronor an hour around the clock in the central City district and 20 to 31 kronor an hour by day across most of the inner city, charging bays included, and the congestion tax, up to 135 kronor on a weekday, electric or not. easyCharging shows the live price at each point up front, so you choose on cost, not guesswork.
Open the app to see live availability and price across Stockholm’s kerbside posts, garages and fast-charging hubs on one map.
A few local things worth knowing before you charge in the city — what the congestion tax does to an electric car, who may park at a charging bay and what it costs, and where the car is happiest left.
Cameras on every road into the inner city, and on the Essingeleden bypass, charge each passage on weekdays from 06:00 to 18:29 — up to 45 kronor at the morning and evening peaks, 11 kronor in the middle of the day, never more than 135 kronor a day (105 in the low season), and nothing at weekends, on public holidays or for most of July. Electric cars have paid since 2012. A UK plate is not stopped and needs no registration: the bill arrives by post from EPASS24, Transportstyrelsen’s collection partner, after the month you drove, and paying late adds 500 kronor. In a hire car, the rental company pays and bills you, usually with a fee.
A bay signed Laddplats is for cars that can be charged from a cable: yours may stay even when it isn’t charging, unless the sign says charging only, but within the time limit on the sign — three hours by day is typical. You pay the ordinary street fee as well as the electricity, through one of the city’s four parking apps (EasyPark, ePARK, Mobill or Parkster) or by card at the meter, which takes no coins. The public posts — some 1,700 at the kerb and thousands more in the city’s garages — are Type 2 sockets, so bring your own cable.
The cheapest place to leave a car is a park-and-ride by the metro: arrive between 05:00 and 09:00 and one fixed price covers the day — 60 kronor at Enskedehallen, where the city’s parking company also sells charging at 3 kronor per kWh, paid in its parking app with the space. In winter, studded tyres are banned on parts of Hornsgatan, on Fleminggatan and on Kungsgatan between Sveavägen and Birger Jarlsgatan, with a 1,000-kronor fine; Hornsgatan is also an environmental zone that keeps out older petrol and diesel cars, which does not touch an electric car. See more on the Sweden guide.
Download the easyCharging app on Android or iOS and create your account. Add a payment method once and you’re ready to charge across Stockholm and beyond — no Swedish app, no credit to load in kronor, no second account.
Before you cross into the congestion-tax zone, decide where the car stays: filter the map for the fast chargers on the E4 and E18, or for a charging bay near your hotel, and check it is free and what it costs right now — the price shown is the price for your account.
At a kerbside post, plug in with your own Type 2 cable, start the session in the app — and start a parking session in a parking app too, since the bay is paid as well. In an underground garage, where the signal often drops, tap your free RFID card on the reader instead. Mind the time limit on the sign.
Stop charging in the app, unplug and continue your journey. You’ll get a charging summary, and payment is handled automatically — no subscription, no monthly invoices.
Leave the city and the same app and free card keep working — across Sweden and home through Denmark and Germany. One app, one free card and a live price the whole way.
The road home: about 615 km and seven hours down the E4 through Norrköping, Linköping and Jönköping to Helsingborg and Malmö, then the Øresund Bridge — 690 kronor at the toll station — into Denmark. Fast charging lines the whole road, and the app shows live availability at each stop, so the last Swedish top-up and the first Danish one are planned before you leave.
Past Lake Mälaren and between Vänern and Vättern to Gothenburg — about 470 km and under six hours — and Stena Line’s overnight ferry to Kiel. There is no charging on board, so reach the port with enough charge for the drive from Kiel; the hubs around Gothenburg are on the app’s live map.
Uppsala in an hour, the copper-mining town of Falun in about three and Rättvik on Lake Siljan in under four — Dalarna, red wooden houses and midsummer on the water. Charging here is AC posts in town car parks and at hotels as much as fast hubs, so the app’s live view of what is free, and what it costs, is worth a look before you leave the E4.
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Built for a city where the car pays to come in, pays to stand still, and is best left at the edge.
Fast chargers on the E4 and E18, kerbside posts in the inner city and hotel chargers from a dozen networks, on one map with one account — no app-hopping to find out which is free.
Where a network’s pay-as-you-go price and its members’ price are kronor apart, the price for your account is the one you see before you plug in — no guessing, no idle-fee surprises.
Stockholm’s underground garages often have no mobile signal. A free RFID card starts the charge at a compatible garage charger without the app.
Pay only for the sessions you use. No monthly fee, no credit to load — ideal for a few days where the car charges once and the metro does the rest.
Answers to the most common questions about charging an electric car in Stockholm — prices, the congestion tax, charging bays and parking, rapid chargers and using the same app abroad.
Prices are set per network and per station, and the app shows the price for your account before you plug in — in September 2026, 9.74 kronor per kWh at a 100 kW charger on Kungsholms Hamnplan, plus 1.41 kronor a minute after the first hour. Parking is on top wherever the bay is in a paid zone — 55 kronor an hour in the central City district, 20 to 31 kronor by day across most of the inner city — for the whole time you are parked.
Outside the centre. A park-and-ride by the metro costs one fixed price for the day if you arrive before 09:00, and a fast charger on the E4 or E18 does in half an hour what a kerbside post does over an afternoon of paid parking. The app shows the live price and availability of all of them, so you can compare before you drive in.
Yes. The exemption for green cars ended in 2012, and every car now pays on weekdays from 06:00 to 18:29 — between 11 and 45 kronor a passage depending on the time, 135 kronor a day at most (105 in the low season), and nothing at weekends, on public holidays or for most of July. The Essingeleden bypass is charged too.
You don’t register or stop. Cameras read the plate, and Transportstyrelsen’s collection partner, EPASS24, finds the owner and sends the bill by post after the month you drove; pay by the date on the notice or 500 kronor is added. In a hire car the tax goes to the rental company, which adds it to your bill — often with an administration fee.
Yes, if your car can plug in: a Laddplats bay in Stockholm is for vehicles that can be charged from a cable, charging or not, unless the sign says charging only. The time limit on the sign applies — three hours by day is typical — and you pay the ordinary street parking fee on top of any electricity. A car that cannot plug in may not park there at all.
Mostly on the roads out: along the E4 north towards Arlanda at Sollentuna, Upplands Väsby and Sigtuna, on the E4 and E20 south-west through Huddinge, Botkyrka and Södertälje, and on the E18 at Järfälla and Täby, with a handful of high-power sites in the inner city itself. The whole county has only around 600 public fast-charging points, so check live availability in the app before you set off.
One street of it: Hornsgatan on Södermalm is an environmental zone that keeps out older petrol and diesel cars, and an electric car may drive there whatever its plate. The city has also planned a stricter zone for the blocks of the City district, open only to electric, fuel-cell and some gas cars; it was annulled in May 2026 and is under appeal — and it would let an electric car in either way.
Yes. The same app and free card work across Sweden and on into the rest of Europe, so you can drive from Stockholm to Gothenburg, down to Malmö and home over the Øresund Bridge and keep charging with one app — no second account.
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