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We continue to watch the pivot towards NACS-J3400 this week, and the specific hardware manufacturers embodying this shift. A third Electrify America site with J3400 connectors on Alpitronic dispensers could finally confirm EA’s decision after a year of pilot testing, while built-in adapters like ChargePoint’s Omniport, currently used by Love’s Travel Stops, offer another path to serving both port types.

Whether charging operators choose a mix of dispensers with both connector types, hardware with both plugs on the same units, or instant adapters to offer J3400 handles, the shift is accelerating. In all of Q1 2025, just over 130 J3400 connectors were deployed at sites other than Tesla Superchargers. With only half of Q1 2026 complete, we’ve seen twice that number installed and expect many more, as projects like Walmart and IONNA accelerate installations.

On that note, here’s your latest digest of EVI developments across the US and Canada ⤵️

News - Uber unveiled a multi-pronged investment strategy for charging sites and initiatives that will keep its fleet of electric self-driving vehicles on the road.

Numbers - That $100M headline will be used initially to build out charging at Uber’s fleet depots in Dallas, TX, and Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA. AVs are cleaned and inspected at these facilities, making them a natural fit for charging during downtime. The money should add around 1,000 new ports, including cities outside North America.

Nuance - Uber’s electrification strategy also recognizes that it needs to meet the rideshare drivers that currently make up its fleet where they are on the road, leading to partnerships with public charging operators like EVgo and Revel. Uber already offers drivers an initial incentive of up to $4,000 for using an EV, then layers on charging discounts such as 25% off at Revel locations to keep those drivers on the road and reduce their overall running costs.

Next Up - The partnerships between CPOs and rideshare fleets will continue to provide an important foundation for electrification efforts and charging infrastructure. Maintaining a reliable base of utilization in markets that continue to adopt EVs at a high rate, such as California and the Mid-Atlantic states, provides networks with a predictable foundation for investing in new locations. For example, EVgo’s minimum utilization arrangement with Uber saw rideshare utilization jump from 11% of energy delivered in 2021 to 25% last year. However, as driverless vehicles make up a larger share of rides, charging habits could shift, and investment may not benefit public charging options to the same extent.

News - New York Power Authority (NYPA) celebrated passing the 300-charger mark on its EVolve NY fast-charging network, with a ribbon-cutting for the long-awaited location at LaGuardia Airport, a fitting location to acknowledge the milestone.

Numbers - 300 chargers across 67 DCFC locations, covering almost all of New York State. 16 of these locations are managed by EV Connect and date back to the first wave of openings in 2020-’21. The remaining 51 sites are newer and managed by NYPA’s primary commercial charging partner, Electrify America.

Nuance - NYPA’s network program has been boosted by NEVI funding, which has contributed to 27% of EVolve sites so far across New York state. The Port Authority of NY/NJ and its operational partners have also deployed EVs for airport operations, such as baggage tractors and plane tugs. Across the agency’s three major airports, JFK, LGA, and EWR, 1,400 electric ground service vehicles and 775 electric ground service chargers are currently in use.

Next Up - NYPA’s ultimate target this year is 400 chargers, which would require energizing 20 to 25 new locations over the next 10 months. With 11 already on the coming soon map, most of which are on Long Island or in NYC, we can expect steady growth from EVolve NY for the rest of the year.

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News - AC charging additions shrugged off last week’s lull to push past the 199,000 AC ports mark and settle within 500 of the 200K milestone.

Numbers - 624 L2 charging ports added to the Alternative Fuels Data Center this week, spread across 27 states and six Canadian provinces.

Notable New L2 + AFDC Additions:

◾ Blink Charging only logged four locations with L2 charging additions this week, but the port count contributed hugely to the resurgent activity. 127 new ports represent 20% of the weekly total, with 99 at Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center in California the largest of them. In any other week, the 24 ports at Durham, NC’s central parking garage would take the spotlight.

🟠 Even with Blink’s impressive individual locations, ChargePoint again dominates this week’s AC listings with 401 ports deployed across the United States and Canada. 19 chargers at Nextstar Energy in Windsor, ON, deliver a solid workplace option, while 10 ports at Mountain Meadows in Troutdale, OR, represent a forward-thinking installation for residents at the apartment complex. On the hotel side, Candlewood Suites in Wichita, KS, now offers overnight charging on three new units.

🪙 As we’re covering ChargePoint, heads up that the network begins adding service fees from March 1st, 2026. For AC sessions, guests without a ChargePoint account will pay an additional $0.49 per session, while account holders will pay $0.25 per session. For DCFC, the fee rises to $0.99 per session for guests and $0.49 per session for account holders.

🔷 FLO also had a strong week, with 40 ports energized across 16 sites. Most were in Canada, with the largest being six ports across three different locations serving the lakefront community of Fort Erie, ON. Of the US locations, eight ports at the Melilli Plaza Parking Lot bolster destination charging in Middletown, CT.

⚕️ Noodoe added 10 L2 ports to the HealthPeak medical facility in Kansas City, MO.

⭕ Red E opened four new L2 sites across Michigan and New York, adding 10 new ports in the process. Six of them are at the Wyandanch Rising apartment complex on Long Island.

⚡ ZEF Energy added eight ports across four sites in its home state of Minnesota, including four at two locations in Tower, MN, on the edge of the remote Superior National Forest region. Around the 32-minute mark, the video above explores just how remote things can get up there!

News - Activity picked up in the US last week, with most of the big names in fast-charging adding a station or two and some regional players showing notable moves, including a bulk AFDC drop of 57 ports for FPL Evolution and EVolve NY’s latest milestone, mentioned earlier in this edition. Canada had a slow week, with only three new locations added to the map.

Numbers - 290 DC charging ports at 60 charging locations added to the Alternative Fuels Data Center this week, spread across 15 states and three provinces. Despite a limited batch of openings for Tesla Charging this week, the company reached the impressive milestone of 3,000 Supercharger sites energized in the US. Tesla passed 3,000 Superchargers in the US and Canada combined last summer.

Notable New Locations + AFDC Additions:

🌟 Walmart keeps its weekly opening streak going with yet another site in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. Supercenter #2649 in Irving, TX, becomes the 12th Walmart location to open in D-FW and the network’s 21st location overall. 12 ports available across six Alpitronic dispensers at this latest site, with J3400 and CCS1 handles on every unit.

🪙 NEVI sites were back in focus this week, with two new locations in Wisconsin taking the state’s total to 15 energized under the federal program. The Edgerton Travel Plaza (above) brings what looks like an independent operator to I-90 south of Madison, complete with pull-through stalls that cater to the region’s many boat towers. Another site at Potawatomi Fire Side Market in Crandon, operated by Red E, continues the public fast-charging build-out in northern Wisconsin on US-8, which is also served by another NEVI site in Rhinelander.

⚡ Further NEVI action from Electrify America and Sheetz, where the latest site in New Stanton, PA, held the welcome sight of Alpitronic hardware. This is only the third EA location to deploy the HYC400 units, following pilot sites in Connecticut and Florida a year ago that added EA’s only J3400 connectors. Does this new location

⭕ Red E continues to post excellent weekly numbers, with 28 fast-charging ports (spread across eight sites in three states) added this week. The Aldi partnership continues to bear fruit with a new site using Lincoln Electric hardware in Johnstown, NY, while four new ports at a Casey’s in Loves Park, IL, deploy AUTEL units.

🦞 Mercedes-Benz High Power Charging (MB-HPC) opened its latest location in the northeast with a second site in Maine, energized in Saco, a little south of Portland, ME. This continues the stretch up I-95, which will be further boosted for the network when its planned location in Bangor, ME, goes live in the next month or two. Another new location at Clinton Premium Outlets also snuck under the radar in Connecticut the week before, bringing the network’s total New England count to 11 sites open.

🍁 In Canada, only a few locations were energized this week, two of which were brought online by FLO. The most notable adds two ports at Canadian Tire in Chicoutimi, QC.

🛣️ bp pulse added two new ARCO locations in California, one in Rancho Cordova and another in Hayward. In line with Electrify America’s addition in New Stanton, PA, we also see Alpitronic hardware in the ground here as well, shifting bp from Tritium units as ARCO-branded locations.

🐊 FPL Evolution dropped a batch of locations that add a combined 57 DC ports to the AFDC listings. These date back over the past few months and bring the Florida network up to 390 ports at 108 locations overall. This matches the likes of EVolve NY and BC Hydro for coverage in the single state and province that they serve.

🟠 IONNA opened two new Rechargeries, one adding to its collection in Florida (Hollywood, FL) and the other starting its presence in (North) Las Vegas, NV. These states represent each end of the spectrum for IONNA, with Florida now the network’s largest market (12 sites) and growing out what will become a significant presence in Nevada (four sites so far, with another five in planning).

🔴 Tesla Charging added 40 stalls across three of its own new Supercharger locations in Daytona Beach, FL (20), Minden, NV (8), and Balch Springs, TX (12). That one in Texas appears to be the Supercharger that pushed the network past 3,000 site mark mentioned earlier in this section.

🗽 A new name in DCFC, New York-based Hondo Go, added two new locations on the EV Gateway platform. Both will serve residents and travelers in the Hudson Valley, with Ellenville and Monsey, NY, each adding two SK Signet units with 4 x CCS1 plugs.

⚪ There was more activity for Tesla on the Supercharger for Business side than its own activations this week. There are now more than 10 Tesla SfB locations open across the US, as Francis Energy activated four newly upgraded sites in Oklahoma (Bartlesville, Jenks, Seiling, and Tulsa) and BA Solutions added a second location in Illinois.

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

📝 Starting with permitting news, AlejandroEV66 identified a new IONNA location in Miami, FL. On the Tesla permits side, we have news from MarcoRP1 on new Superchargers in Pinole, CA, Lincoln, NE, and a Wawa store in Ocala, FL.

🔶 RANtracker reports permit papers spotted for new (NEVI-funded) Rivian fast chargers in Silverthorne, CO, following hot on the heels of the new RAN site in Centennial, CO, that was shared last week and pictured below.

⚪ New white-labeled Tesla locations - aka Superchargers for Business (SfB) - are coming to the Southeast, courtesy of new operator ChargedEV Hubs. A first location in Norcross, GA, is scheduled to open this Friday, 27th February, with a second in Morrisville, NC, set to follow this spring.

⚪ EVIO Charging is another SfB-aligned name to watch. Although the company has not yet identified sites, it published a piece on demand-driven site selection this week and has large partners in place, including property giant CBRE and leading hotel chains, including Hilton and Best Western.

🚧 IONNA confirmed “fences up” construction at two new locations: Casselberry, FL, and South Weymouth, MA. I hope to swing by the latter this week, so watch for a site update in edition 60. Our eyes on the ground in the Pacific Northwest also report (thanks, AC!) the Osborne Company added construction fencing to a planned IONNA location in Everett, WA, as you can see from the site shot below.

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News - Student transportation developer Zūm confirmed its first all-electric school bus project on the East Coast, with plans to electrify the fleet of Branford School District in Connecticut.

Numbers - The 10-year contract signed by Zūm and Branford in 2024 is just one of the provider’s partnerships, which cover school districts in 15 different states.

Nuance - In addition to quieter transportation and cleaner air in areas where children congregate, electric school bus initiatives like this are increasingly incorporating vehicle-to-grid technology. Bidirectional charging capabilities enable the return of energy from bus batteries to the grid, providing backup power for local facilities and grid resilience in emergency scenarios.

Next Up - The plan was to take the full Branford School District fleet all-electric within five years, but Zūm reports that the goal is two years ahead of schedule.

News - IONNA continues to drive the pricing conversation for US fast-charging, with a new low “Welcome Price” set for the opening week of its latest Rechargeries. Mercedes-Benz High-Power Charging also does this at new locations, typically lasting longer than a week, although the discount is less substantial than IONNA’s.

Numbers: IONNA’s rate is set at $0.20 per kWh for the first week after a new location opens. MB-HPC sets its rate at $0.40 per kWh for an undisclosed period, which we’ve seen last as long as several months here in the Northeast. IONNA’s rate represents a 49% discount over the current network-wide peak of $0.39 per kWh, while MB-HPC is typically set around $0.50 per kWh, making the welcome price a 20% discount. It’s worth noting that the Mercedes rate includes local taxes and fees, whereas those are added to IONNA’s pricing at final billing.

Nuance - The rate of $0.20 per kWh is undeniably attractive for an opening week offer, although it should be noted that other providers offer a “soft open” period that includes complimentary charging. This is typically intended as more of a testing phase to work out any kinks at individual sites, but it represents a perk of driving electric that has been around for a while, yet often goes overlooked. Other intro rates have been tied to events, such as the $0.01 per kWh on official opening days at some bp pulse Gigahubs.

Next Up: Try welcome pricing for yourself when a new IONNA or MB-HPC site opens in your area. At the time of writing, the new Rechargeries in North Las Vegas, NV, and Hollywood, FL, both show welcome pricing in effect, as do the latest Mercedes sites in Clinton, CT, Alpharetta, GA, Saco, ME, and Manchester, NH. Expect continued experimentation in this area of pricing, as more sites come online and charging operators look for effective ways to raise awareness, driving early utilization and, ideally, return visits.

In every edition, we recommend one of the best listens on electrification, energy, or something similarly EV-related. Given Uber’s ongoing investment in electric fleets and autonomous vehicles, this week we revisit CEO Dara Khosrowshahi’s chat with the Pivot podcast.

🎧 Pivot Podcast: Uber CEO on “The End of Human Driving?” 🤖

Despite hesitation and electrification U-turns from US automakers, fleets and rideshare continue to be a bright spot for EV adoption. Industry leader Tesla has staked much of its future expansion on automation and robotaxis, while Uber continues to shift drivers towards EVs and invests in charging infrastructure for both manned and driverless rides.

In this wide-ranging interview, Uber’s CEO shares his thoughts on sustainable transportation, employment amidst autonomy, and why AVs are ultimately the safest choice for our future.

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:

Tesla receives FCC clearance for wireless CyberCab charging

ChargePoint partners with Stable for charging infrastructure decision-making

Donut Labs launches independent testing to prove its solid state battery tech

GM Energy shares lease program for EV/home energy management systems

S2G partners with AMPECO for fleet charging/energy management software

AlejandroEV66 launches DCFC Tracker site for US fast charging updates

Mercedes-Benz HPC’s next “Driver Dialogues” event is scheduled for Fort Worth, TX, on Feb. 24-25, 2026

Pennsylvania offers $100M for community EV charging projects, with different 2026 NOFO windows across the state. Start with the Interested Organizations Survey here.

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

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

Maryland’s third round of NEVI funding for these target areas opens on 3/17/26

California’s third round NEVI funding is open for applications (deadline: 3/25/26 at 11:59 PST)

California’s Clean Bus & Truck Voucher program is also open for applications

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Cheers,

Steve / Plug & Play EV