Tesla offers free charging in Israel, UAE and Saudi Arabia

Tesla is temporarily offering free charging in Israel and has already activated free Supercharging in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia as Mideast tensions persist. In a post on X early Tuesday, the company announced Supercharging in Israel would be free for a limited time, making it the third Middle East market to receive complimentary charging this week.

Owners in Saudi Arabia and the UAE were notified earlier that fees were waived.

Tesla shares have gained about 2% so far this week and were up roughly 0.5% in premarket trading on Wednesday.

The company has taken similar steps during past crises. In 2022, shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Tesla offered free Supercharging in neighboring countries including Poland, Hungary and Slovakia for both Tesla and non-Tesla electric vehicles. At that time, Tesla did not have an official presence in Ukraine.

Tesla’s footprint in the region has expanded in recent years. The brand entered the UAE in 2017 with the Model S and Model X. In Israel, sales began in February 2021, and the first Supercharger opened in Tel Aviv later that year.

Regulators in the UAE and Israel recently cleared pilot programs for Tesla’s Full Self-Driving driver-assistance software. The UAE permitted road tests with a requirement that drivers stay alert and ready to take control. Israel authorized FSD trials after Transportation Minister Miri Regev visited a Tesla factory in Germany earlier this year.

Tesla’s presence in Saudi Arabia is more recent. The company launched there in April 2025 with models including the Cybertruck, Model 3 and Model Y, and opened a showroom in Riyadh. In 2018, Elon Musk described a go-private plan for Tesla and cited backing from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund; the deal did not proceed. The PIF has since become a major investor in Lucid, which is developing an electric-vehicle factory in the kingdom.