Good day, fellow Charge Chaser 🏃‍♂️‍➡️⚡

Apologies for the delay! This weekend we hit the road (and slopes) celebrating IONNA’s second birthday up in Vermont, so this is a slightly shorter digest than usual. There’s still plenty to dig into and we’ll be back up to full steam next week. As ever, thanks for reading.

Here’s the latest digest of EVI developments across Canada and the United States ⤵️

News - Electrify America (EA) shared its recap of 2025, noting increased sessions, energy delivery, and multiple awards for its battery energy storage systems.

Numbers - 750 GWh of energy delivered (up 26%) and more than 20 million charging sessions (up 21%) represent steady progress for EA, despite the growth rate being slightly lower than 2024 levels. The network now has 5,411 fast-charging ports across 1,117 locations, some of which are partner-owned sites with utilities like Rocky Mountain Power and NYPA, or retailers like Costco and Sheetz.

Nuance - An ongoing question mark over EA’s annual numbers is the existence of free charging plans, which inevitably tilt driver use in favor of the network until they expire. However, many of the more generous plans, such as those for the Volkswagen ID.4 and Hyundai IONIQ 5, have now run out for most owners, meaning EA’s numbers for 2025 onwards will increasingly reflect the network’s true customer base.

Next Up - After a record-setting year for DCFC deployment and increased competition for limited DCFC dollars in the US, 2026 is a critical year for Electrify America. This is the final full year of mandated investment that arose from the consent decree from Volkswagen’s “Dieselgate” settlement, after which EA needs to show a path to profitable operations. A significant membership base, the network’s shift to larger stations, and its success with BESS could all contribute to making that happen.

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News - A healthy week for AC charging deployment, with ChargePoint again delivering the vast majority (73%) of additions. FLO, EV Range, and ViaLynk also notched up some useful L2 locations.

Numbers - 449 L2 charging ports added to the Alternative Fuels Data Center this week, spread across 29 states and provinces.

Notable New L2 + AFDC Additions:

🟠 ChargePoint logged notable additions at the University of Oregon (12 ports), the River Forest train station in Illinois (10 ports), and a large parking lot installation in the heart of Cedar Rapids, IA. Two new ports at the Aquatic Center in Yellowknife, NT also add valuable destination charging at an interesting location in a relatively remote part of Canada.

🔌 Los Angeles County Clean Transportation & Energy shared eight new L2 chargers at a multi-family dwelling complex in Lomita, CA. The Harbor Hills installation (pictured below) aims to open affordable EV charging to communities that might otherwise find electric vehicles harder to own where they can’t charge at home.

🟪 22 new ports from the ViaLynk network will serve Harbor Landing in Glen Cove, NY, a premium waterfront property and retail complex on Long Island.

🔷 FLO added 25 new AC ports across nine sites in six states and provinces. Six new stalls electrify the Foster Elementary School in Hingham, MA, while four stalls in Red Deer, AB, will be appreciated by guests at the Hampton Inn & Suites.

🟦 EV Range revitalized seven ports at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital in Vermont

On a related note/opportunity, CBRE (via Mordor Intelligence) estimates that only 5% of US multi-family properties offer EV charging as an amenity. Apartments and property complexes that are able to check this amenity box are increasingly showing up in home listings, while others fall out of consideration for overlooking electric vehicles.

News - The slowest week we’ve seen for DC fast charging since starting this weekly digest, with minimal US openings and only a handful of activations in Canada.

Numbers - 83 DC charging ports at 25 charging locations added to the Alternative Fuels Data Center this week, spread across 18 states and provinces.

Notable New Locations + AFDC Additions:

⭕ Red E kicked back into significant action this week, with five new locations across four states (NE/NY/MA/WY). The most eye-catching is another high-power installation at a New York ALDI, this one offering four stalls up to 320kW in Camillus, NY. For a perfect example of what the network is rolling out in neighboring Massachusetts, take a look at my spotlight on Red E’s expansion in Chelmsford, MA.

⚡ IONNA appears to be ramping again, with 22 stalls at three new locations opened this week. The San Jose Rechargery Relay adds the network’s second site in California, with locations in Cresswell, OR, and Gainesville, VA, also arrived in time for the 2nd anniversary celebrations, offering $0.20/kWh discounted rates to early visitors.

🔴 Tesla Charging added 111 stalls at 10 of its own Superchargers this week, spread across seven states. The increasing importance of the Florida market is evident with the openings, as three locations in the Sunshine State beats out just one in California this week. The 12-stall site in Yulee, FL, is notable for adopting the side-on post position, creating open stalls that are friendly to EVs towing trailers, such as Tesla’s own Cybertruck.

🛒 With promising momentum, Walmart Energy posted a third straight week of activity and a new site in Crowley, TX. At $0.27/kWh, the location offers one of the lowest price points on the emerging Walmart DCFC network, albeit by leaning into time-of-use rates.

✅ Pilot-Flying J opened its latest location at a travel center in Lake Park, GA. Despite recently shifting to larger format stations at some sites, featuring up to eight stalls, this one follows the more familiar two dispenser, four-stall set up.

🟠 ChargePoint added 14 stalls at seven new locations in five states (AZ/FL/ID/KY/WY) and one province (QC). A remote location in Kooskia, ID, is among the more interesting spots, in part because it adds to small town Idaho, much as one of the first Tesla Supercharger for Business locations did in Deary, ID, just a few weeks ago.

🟦 Circuit électrique opened a suitably snowy station in Kitcisakik, QC, the network’s only addition this week.

To see how and where the leading charging vendors are expanding, check out The Network Architect Channel on YouTube for weekly DCFC updates.

🔴 On the Tesla permits front, we have new Superchargers from MarcoRP1 in Riverview, FL, Florence, OR, and Temecula, CA. On the Supercharger for Business side, he identifies a location upgrade for Francis Energy in Lawton, OK, a new site for Envirospark in Boca Raton, FL, and a previously identified permit in Austin, TX, that now appears under the name of ROAM.

🏆 Tesla shared the winners of Q425 Supercharger voting, with 19 new locations on the map for the US (15) and Canada (4). More on that via Michael Timmons here at EVwire.

📝 In other permitting news, AlejandroEV66 identified new IONNA locations in Greenwood Village, CO, and Gambrills, MD. Check out an interview with Alejandro on the particulars of unearthing permits and spotting new sites in the video below with Walter from the tNAC/OoS channels.

🔶 RANtracker flagged a new Rivian Adventure Network location in permitting for Long Beach, CA. With the exception of 10 remaining locations, all other existing and upcoming RAN sites are open to all electric vehicles that can use the CCS1 standard (native or via an adapter).

🪙 On the NEVI side, construction fences are down in Forest Lake, MN, at what could become the first Kwik Charge location opened outside of Wisconsin. The state of Minnesota will also open up its RFI for round 3 locations in early March. Over in Maryland, several sites from the early rounds of funding are slated for completion this quarter, including Francis Energy locations in West Friendship and Taneytown.

In every edition, we recommend one of the best listens on electrification, energy, or something similarly EV-related.

This week we return to the Field Frequency podcast for a conversation with Florent Breton, co-founder of EV data analytics firm Paren.

🎧 Field Frequency #14: What Paren data points reveal about US EV charging 📊

In this episode, host Jason Cortes unpacks his guest’s journey from France to North America and how he ended up monitoring almost every aspect of EV charging in the United States. With hundreds of millions of data points, there’s a whole lot to learn, buried in those numbers.

Here’s a selection of news items we couldn’t squeeze into other sections, followed by select EVI incentive program updates we think you’ll want to know about:

$4 million project will install bus charging infrastructure at Boston public schools

2,000+ DC NACS connectors now installed at non-Supercharger sites

Study finds Canadian grid can support commercial fleet EV charging needs

Tesla makes Superchargers in MS and TN free during winter power outages

Get Charged continues expansion with Kempower across Queens/Long Island

$10 million available for hotel charging sites via NJ EV Tourism Corridor Charging

California’s Clean Bus & Truck Voucher program is open again

Application period open for Rebuild Illinois funding opportunity (DCFC + L2)

Round 3 of the Illinois NEVI funding is now open, with $65.6M available, including applications for M-HDEV charging sites (deadline: 2/13/26)

Maryland’s $10M Community Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Grant Program is open for applications (deadline: 2/25/26)

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See you next week, when we’ll be back up to full power with a bumper edition and bonus content! ⚡

Cheers,

Steve / Plug & Play EV