ChargeLeague 2026: Ionity, Fastned, Electra and Atlante – What the Charging Alliance Means for Drivers
📅 Published on October 25, 2026
Information as of 25 October 2026. Based on reports by electrive.net and electrive.com and on statements by Electra (sources at the end). These operators change their prices several times a year; every figure below is given with its reference date and may have been overtaken since. The binding price is always the one shown in the app or at the charger before you start a session.
Four fast-charging operators have formed an alliance: Ionity, Fastned, Electra and Atlante. The promise sounds attractive for drivers – one subscription, one access, many fast chargers. How far that promise carries in autumn 2026 can only partly be read from the published sources. This article sorts it out soberly: what is documented, which prices were quoted when, what changed in 2026 – and what is still open.
What is the ChargeLeague?
The ChargeLeague is the new name of the Spark Alliance. According to electrive.net (19 November 2025), the renaming was announced at the WATT 2025 industry summit in Munich, which about 70 representatives of the EV industry attended, according to EVMagz. The founding members are the four operators Atlante, Electra, Fastned and Ionity; the alliance was formed in spring 2025. The original goal: customers of one provider should be able to charge at all the others without switching apps.
The steps documented so far, according to electrive.net:
- July 2025: The apps also show the other members' charge points. Charging there initially still works only with the respective operator's own app.
- November 2025: Renaming to ChargeLeague. The 2026 roadmap names shared standards for reliability, maintenance and equipment, plus an evaluation of a new data platform meant to give customers and navigation partners more dependable data.
- December 2025: Electra and Ionity open charging at their partners to their customers (details below).
What the sources do not document: a start date from which Fastned and Atlante customers can charge network-wide with their subscription. The December 2025 report by electrive.net explicitly said that no date had been given. In the 2026 reports we reviewed for this article we found no confirmation either – that does not mean none exists, only that we cannot document it.
December 2025: What Electra and Ionity opened up
Electra (according to electrive.net, 8 December 2025): with the Electra+ subscription at €9.99 per month, charging at Ionity, Fastned and Atlante in Germany cost 64 ct/kWh, versus 39 ct/kWh at Electra's own sites. According to the report, the offer applied "at least in Germany" at first. Atlante, per that report, had no charging parks in Germany yet, so its price applied to no sites there. Without a subscription, Electra showed the partners' ad-hoc prices according to electrive.net: 75 ct/kWh at Ionity (while Ionity's own app charged 70 ct without a subscription) and 73 ct/kWh at Fastned.
Ionity (according to electrive.net, 16 December 2025): since then Ionity customers can charge at Fastned, Electra and Atlante. Ionity stated no uniform kWh prices; they depend on tariff, operator and country. The published price list of 10 December 2025 applied only to high-power chargers of 150 kW and above. Example prices for Germany according to electrive.net:
- At Fastned: 83 ct/kWh without a subscription, 75 ct with Motion (€5.99/month), 65 ct with Power (€11.99/month).
- At Electra: 75 ct/kWh without a subscription, 67 ct with Motion, 61 ct with Power.
Important context: these values date from December 2025. Since then at least Fastned and Ionity have changed their own prices (see next section). Whether the partner prices in the Ionity app stayed the same cannot be established from the sources. Treat the December figures as evidence of the price structure, not as a current price list.
2026: What changed in the members' prices
Fastned, according to electrive.net (24 March 2026), lowered its prices in Germany as of 1 April 2026: ad-hoc from 73 to 69 ct/kWh, for app customers with a card as default payment method from 65 to 62 ct/kWh, and in the Gold membership (€11.99 per month) from 51 to 48 ct/kWh. The report gives lower grid fees thanks to the 2026 federal subsidy as the reason; the federal government speaks of 2 ct/kWh on average, Fastned passes on 4 ct/kWh. Our article on grid fees in 2027 covers this background.
Ionity, according to electrive.net (23 June 2026), raises prices in selected tariffs on 1 July 2026 – for ad-hoc payers, app users without a subscription and customers with newer monthly subscriptions – by 4 percent on average. Ionity cites higher wholesale electricity prices as well as infrastructure, maintenance, grid-connection and operating costs. In Germany the ad-hoc price was from €0.69/kWh and is to rise to up to €0.76/kWh; the report does not state the lower bound after the change. Subscription base fees stay unchanged (Motion €5.99/month or €59.99/year, Power €11.99/month or €119.99/year). Monthly subscriptions taken out before 13 February 2026 keep their kWh price, and annual subscriptions taken out before 1 July 2026 keep it until the end of their term.
Electra describes in a statement (reported by electrive.com, 29 June 2026) new German tariffs since May 2026: Electra+ Smart at €4.99 per month with prices at Electra hubs from €0.34/kWh, Electra+ Essential at €1.99 per month from €0.44/kWh; without a subscription €0.54/kWh via the app and €0.69/kWh ad hoc by credit card. According to this report, discounted ChargeLeague rates are reserved for Electra+ Smart customers. On prices at the partner sites it says only that Electra customers paid €0.64/kWh in December 2025 and that the prices of Ionity, Fastned and Atlante were "unchanged" – how that fits with the Fastned and Ionity price changes above is not clear from the text. An Electra overview of payment methods (July 2026) mentions a Smart price of €0.49/kWh on ChargeLeague networks without naming a country; for Germany this is therefore not documented.
Worked example: when does an operator subscription pay off?
The following calculations use only the dated prices above. They are a thought experiment with assumed sessions, not a tariff recommendation and not a statement of what any particular driver pays.
- Fastned Germany from 1 April 2026, 40 kWh per session: ad-hoc 40 × €0.69 = €27.60. App price 40 × €0.62 = €24.80. Gold 40 × €0.48 = €19.20 (plus €11.99 monthly fee). Per session Gold saves €8.40 versus ad-hoc. Break-even versus ad-hoc: €11.99 / €0.21 per kWh ≈ 57 kWh per month; versus the app price: €11.99 / €0.14 per kWh ≈ 86 kWh per month.
- Electra Germany, as of May/June 2026, at Electra hubs: Smart (€4.99 per month, from €0.34/kWh) versus the app price without a subscription (€0.54/kWh): €4.99 / €0.20 per kWh ≈ 25 kWh per month.
The limits of this calculation: it applies only to the respective operator. A Fastned subscription does not automatically bring the Gold price to Ionity chargers, nor an Ionity subscription to Fastned. Also, "from" prices are lower bounds; depending on location and time of day the price may be higher. And anyone who mostly charges at other operators' chargers saves little with a single provider's subscription.
What "network-wide" realistically means for drivers – and what it does not
Three things can be separated cleanly from the sources:
- Visibility: Since July 2025 the members' apps also show the others' charge points. That makes searching easier but says nothing about price.
- Access: Since December 2025 Electra and Ionity customers can demonstrably charge on the partner networks. For Fastned and Atlante customers, comparable access is not documented in our sources.
- Price: There is no uniform ChargeLeague price. According to electrive.net prices differ by tariff, operator and country; within a country the members apply identical tariffs, but the amounts vary from country to country. The "64 ct/kWh" figure from December 2025 was an Electra offer for Germany, not an alliance price.
On top of that come conditions unrelated to the alliance: Ionity's December 2025 price list applied only to chargers of 150 kW and above; for slower DC and AC points Ionity quotes location-based prices in the app. In France, according to electrive.net, Ionity additionally distinguishes between motorway and non-motorway sites.
On scale, Electra states in its own December 2025 release that the ChargeLeague comprises more than 1,700 sites in 25 European countries with more than 11,000 ultra-fast charge points. That is a self-description by one member which we cannot confirm independently. And in June 2026 Electra describes its own app as now working as a roaming platform with around 800,000 public charge points in Europe; on third-party networks the respective operator sets the price there and the Electra+ discount does not apply.
Autocharge and Plug & Charge: a practical side note
In its June 2026 statement Electra describes "Autocharge": after one-time app setup, charging starts automatically, but only for vehicles with a fixed, unique vehicle identifier (VID) and, according to Electra, only on CCS connectors. That is not the same as Plug & Charge under ISO 15118 – the difference is explained in our article on Plug & Charge and AFIR.
What you can take away as a driver
The following points are conclusions from the documented facts, not guarantees:
1. Check the price in the app before plugging in. A subscription price at operator A is not a price at operator B. Especially at partner sites the price can differ strongly by app and tariff – in December 2025 the range at Fastned alone in the Ionity app was between 65 and 83 ct/kWh, depending on subscription.
2. Look at your own charging habits first. Someone charging 50 kWh a month at a single operator calculates differently from someone who uses five operators. The calculation above shows how to find the threshold: base fee divided by the per-kWh saving.
3. Mind cancellation and legacy terms. Ionity names exceptions from the price increase for existing contracts (monthly subscriptions before 13 February 2026, annual subscriptions before 1 July 2026). For Electra the tariffs were cancellable monthly according to the sources (December 2025). Check the current terms in your contract.
4. Compare ad-hoc, card and subscription. For orientation see ad-hoc, charging card or subscription; background on roaming is in EV roaming cards explained. That prices can diverge between payment route and operator is also shown by the roaming ruling against EWE Go.
How Elunio can help – and where its limits are
Elunio shows charging stations on a map and in a list, filters by power and price, and displays prices other drivers have reported at a station. When ad-hoc, app and subscription prices diverge, a price someone actually paid is a useful additional data point. The limits: community reports are individual cases and not exhaustive, and unless stated they do not say which tariff someone paid through. The best coverage with live data is in Baden-Württemberg (live occupancy via MobiData BW) and the DACH region; elsewhere the data is thinner. Elunio does not calculate individual providers' subscription prices and does not replace a tariff comparison – the reference prices stored in the app are rough indications with a reference date.
Frequently asked questions
What is the ChargeLeague?
An alliance of the fast-charging operators Atlante, Electra, Fastned and Ionity, formerly called Spark Alliance, under its new name since November 2025.
Can I charge at all four with one member's subscription?
Documented for Electra and Ionity customers since December 2025, each at its own partner prices. For Fastned and Atlante customers we found no documented start date. There is no uniform alliance price.
What was the partner price with Electra+?
In December 2025 electrive.net reported 64 ct/kWh in Germany at a €9.99 monthly fee. According to Electra the tariffs were revised in May 2026; whether the value still applies today is not clear from the sources.
Did Ionity raise prices?
Yes, according to electrive.net on 1 July 2026 by 4 percent on average in selected tariffs; subscription base fees stayed unchanged.
Did Fastned cut prices?
Yes, in Germany on 1 April 2026: ad-hoc 69 ct/kWh, app 62 ct/kWh, Gold 48 ct/kWh at €11.99 per month (electrive.net, 24 March 2026).
Conclusion
So far the ChargeLeague has mainly brought drivers visibility and – for Electra and Ionity customers – access to partner networks, but no uniform price. The December 2025 figures are partly overtaken by price changes at Fastned (April 2026) and Ionity (July 2026) and by new Electra tariffs (May 2026). Whether a subscription pays off depends on your own charging volume at the respective operator; you can work out the threshold yourself as base fee divided by per-kWh saving. If you use changing operators on the road, check the displayed price before every session.
Sources: electrive.net – "Lade-Allianz Spark Alliance benennt sich in ChargeLeague um" (19.11.2025) · EVMagz – "ChargeLeague Alliance Sets 2026 Roadmap and Plans Network-Wide Subscription Access" (20.11.2025) · electrive.net – "Electra ermöglicht das Laden bei Ionity, Fastned und Atlante für 64 Cent" (08.12.2025) · electrive.net – "Ionity ermöglicht das Laden bei Fastned, Electra und Atlante" (16.12.2025) · Electra Newsroom – "Boost subscription across the entire ChargeLeague network" (17.12.2025) · electrive.net – "Fastned senkt Ad-hoc-Ladepreis in Deutschland auf 69 Cent/kWh" (24.03.2026) · electrive.net – "Ionity erhöht Ladepreise im Schnitt um vier Prozent" (23.06.2026) · electrive.com – "Electra extends roaming network to 800,000 charge points" (29.06.2026) · Electra Newsroom – "How to pay for electric car charging in 2026" (20.07.2026)