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As always, there’s a lot to get through this week, starting with a look back at how industry veteran EVgo fared in 2025, through the latest L2 and DCFC deployments, and projecting all the way forward to Supercharger sites 2.5x bigger than the largest we see today.

So let’s dive right into the latest EVI developments across the US and Canada ⤵️

News - EVgo released earnings for Q4 2025 and offered a full-year review of the network’s steady path to positive adjusted EBITDA.

Numbers - It’s an earnings report, so the numbers run wide and deep, but here are headline figures shared by EVgo: a 50% rise in revenue over 2024, up to $384M, driven by a 32% YOY increase in throughput, which is up to 366 GWh for 2025. That all-important path to sustained profitability is captured in the year’s $12M EBITDA figure, which is a $44M improvement over 2024 and the first time EVgo has posted a positive number here.

Nuance - There are onion-like layers to peel back on every EVgo quarterly earnings report, so I suggest looking to the likes of Loren McDonald, Michael Greenberg, and Maythem Alsodani for some excellent choice cuts on this release. For my part, noting a significant focus on accommodating NACS-J3400 ports to maintain/increase EVgo’s total addressable market, and looking to a new generation of “charging architecture” are key areas to watch. With the best Delta hardware deployed by EVgo today capped at 350kW and power sharing quickly cutting that in half at smaller sites, it looks like the network will seek out higher power and broader options as it looks to keep pace with industry leaders and new challengers, who are already pushing beyond 400kW to 500-600kW and beyond.

Next Up - For this year, watch for an imminent ramp in stall deployment that EVgo expects to “operationalize in H2 2026”. That’s likely to mean more sites in busy metro areas, especially those maintaining strong EV adoption and rideshare economies. NACS-J3400 handles will become common at many of these new sites. On the Pilot-Flying J side, EVgo says the eXtend business will begin to focus primarily on operations & maintenance after 2027, which could indicate completion targets for most of P-FJ’s buildout.

News - A somewhat new name on the US charging scene, SynergEV added its full location list to the AFDC this week. Naturally, this prompted us to dig into the map/data to see how they’re shaping up.

Numbers - 807 ports (86% level 2 / 14% DCFC) at 179 locations (27 of which have DCFC), across 34 states. Although this is the AFDC count, it’s worth noting that the company notes “1,000+ stations” on its website. SynergEV does not yet have any Canadian locations.

Nuance - SynergEV was founded in 2024 and has built its fast-charging footprint to date primarily at auto dealerships (59% of DCFC locations), followed by a variety of municipal locations and fueling stations (notably, several Chevron sites in California). Most of these locations already existed under previous providers but give SynergEV a base to build from, given the coverage across most of the United States.

Next Up - SynergEV acquired the ChargePro network earlier this year, adding more than 400 ports in one swoop and suggesting a possible path for future growth. However, the company also partnered with hardware manufacturer viveEV, noting continued expansion via reliable chargers and rapid deployment. Keeping in mind the drag factor that early charging sites with aging hardware have been for some established networks, our money is on the latter to take this network to the next level.

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News - The first week of March also brings the first week with the AC charging count above 200,000 ports in the US and Canada. This week’s additions bring the total 1,000+ ports above the notable milestone, with little sign of slowing as property developers, municipal agencies, and the hospitality sector all continue to show greater ambition around destination charging deployments.

Numbers - 1,044 L2 charging ports added to the Alternative Fuels Data Center this week, spread across 37 states and four Canadian provinces.

Notable New L2 + AFDC Additions:

🥇 In a rare week when ChargePoint didn’t register the most port additions, spotlight vendor SynergEV dropped a batch of existing charging sites that added 691 L2 ports across 32 states to the Alternative Fuels Data Center. The set has three residential locations with 20 destination chargers operated by the relatively new vendor, including Hudson Harbor Condominiums in Tarrytown, NY.

🟠 ChargePoint added 214 ports across the United States and Canada. Four ports at the Holiday Inn Express in Oak Grove, KY, bring a now-essential amenity to the Fort Campbell-area hotel, while Liv Sky Cottages in Flagstaff, AZ, can say the same, with two new destination chargers installed.

⚡ ChargeSmart EV went to town at the Buffalo Marriott Niagara hotel, adding DCFC hardware alongside an impressive batch of 18 AC ports, all using AUTEL equipment. As the company proudly shared on Linkedin: “one of the largest hotel charging deployments in Western New York.“

◾ Blink Charging added 37 new ports at 10 locations. 16 are spread across various corners of the Westlakes Drive commercial area in Berwyn, PA, while eight are added for high-energy EV owners visiting the City of Vista Sports Park in California.

📍 ViaLynk energized 21 new L2 chargers at two sites in New York and one in Georgia. Queens gets the most, with 11 ports at East End Studios in Sunnyside. In Georgia, it’s unclear whether four AC ports at Gresco in Forsyth are in addition to the existing ChargePoint-administered units or replacing them.

🔷 FLO added 16 AC ports at six locations, most of which are in Canada (BC/ON/QC). The largest of them adds four ports each, one at the National Bank in St. Félicien, QC, and the other in Charlottesville, VA, FLO’s only activity in the United States this week.

News - Fast-charging additions this week were also bolstered by SynergEV, which made up 44% of all new AFDC locations. Other significant additions include bp pulse, ChargeSmart EV, Electrify America, Rivian, Tesla Charging, and Walmart, though IONNA is notable by its absence and remains three Rechargeries short of that elusive 100-site mark, as we enter March.

Numbers - 363 DC charging ports at 61 charging locations added to the Alternative Fuels Data Center this week, spread across 24 states and three provinces.

NB. Prolific permit spotter AlejandroEV66 turned his hand to AI-supported site coding and created a resource for mapping recent US DCFC openings. Below is a map of this week’s additions based on his platform, some of which you’ll find detailed in this section.

Check out the DCFCtracker.com site to see a map of the latest AFDC additions, which can also be filtered down to the past week or month.

Notable New Locations + AFDC Additions:

🪙 Francis Energy also continued the NEVI side of its expansion, energizing Michigan’s fifth site funded by the program. Four stalls at a Family Fare store in Gaylord, MI, retain SK Signet hardware, which our Oklahoma-based EV buddy Lynyrd confirms will remain the go-to manufacturer for Francis NEVI sites. Elsewhere, the network’s expansion will be driven primarily by Supercharger for Business, where Francis is seeing high utilization and could soon deploy 1,000V Tesla equipment.

🌟 Rivian energized its latest Adventure Network site with 10 stalls now available in Park City, UT. The popular mountain resort is already home to Tesla Superchargers and Rocky Mountain Power’s partnership with Electrify America, but both of those options serve I-80 exits. The RAN site is located in the city itself and will be more convenient for visitors staying in the area and needing a faster charge while there.

📍 Pilot-Flying J opened one new travel center charging site with EVgo eXtend this week, at store 375 in Houston, TX. No other EVgo additions this week, although as highlighted, the network did release its Q4 2025 and full-year results, much to the delight of industry analysts.

🥷 The stealth-mode expansion of MB-HPC continues, with new locations opening every week without yet appearing in the Alt. Fuels Data Center. Thankfully, the website map and tracking by DCFC news stalwarts tNAC and AlejandroEV66 are keeping us all up to date. This week’s additions bring a new state and yet another in New England, where the network has been on something of a spree in recent months. The Starbucks in Phoenix, OR, brings a second MB location in partnership with the coffee giant and the network’s first site in Oregon. A long-watched site in Braintree, MA, adds another option near the busy intersection of I-95 and Rt. 3 to Cape Cod, where 10 × 400kW stalls are now the highest power charging available in the area. 84 locations are now live, according to the Mercedes-Benz map, with another 13 in the works.

⚡ bp pulse opened another TA fast-charging location in California. 12 stalls at the TravelCenters of America stop in Corning, CA, add a compelling high-power option for NorCal’s I-5 EV travelers.

⭕ Red E fired up another two locations in their home-away-from-home market of Massachusetts, with 12 stalls in total between new sites in Chelmsford and Quincy. To emphasize the network’s impressive presence in my home state, these sites are the third (Chelmsford) and fourth (Quincy) Red E sites opened in just this town and city.

🟢 Electrify America energized eight new stalls at a The Cove Hotel in Long Beach, CA, the network’s only new location this week.

🔴 Tesla Charging opened 10 new Superchargers across eight states and two provinces this week. The largest this week is a 16-stall site in Laval, QC. Two locations were expanded, notably some of the first true V4/500kW Superchargers in Redwood City, CA, and Taylorsville, UT, both of which now have 16 stalls.

⚪ Two new white-labeled Supercharger (for Business -- SfB) energized as well: one in Calumet, OK, the latest Francis Energy upgrade, the other in Georgia, by the City of Alpharetta, where MB-HPC recently opened a new site just last month. Densification! Thanks to Cassius for flagging these.

🗽 ChargeSmart EV had another good week in the Empire State, this time at the fast-charging end of the market. 12 ports across two sites in New York (Great Neck on Long Island and Amherst, near Buffalo) add new DCFC at either end of the state.

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, we have new Superchargers found by MarcoRP1 for Tuscaloosa, AL, Louisville, CO, and South Miami Heights, FL. Yermo, CA, is also on the list, but that gets its own segment because…

📶 Tesla keeps upping the ante on the size of its California Supercharger sites, with the six-phase development of Eddie’s World in Yermo set to host as many as 400 stalls by the time it is finished. The first phase will include 72 stalls when it is finished later this year, while the eventual completion of the location will make it more than twice the size of Tesla’s current largest Supercharger, which is 164 stalls in Lost Hills, CA.

⚪ New white-labeled Tesla locations - aka Superchargers for Business (SfB) - are coming to Las Vegas, NV (Trout Electric), Gorham, NH (owner/host unknown) Austin, TX (owner/host unknown), and Seattle, WA (Seattle City Light). Francis Energy will also continue its enhancements with SfB in Oklahoma, with Henryetta the latest location in the company’s crosshairs for more reliable hardware. This appears to be an alternative location at a new Casey’s store being built, rather than a rip/replace of the existing Francis location. As ever, keep eyes on this section for confirmation in a future edition.

🚧 IONNA confirmed “fences up” construction at two new locations, both of which are in one of the network’s favorite states: Florida. Rechargeries in Jacksonville and Orlando both join Casselberry, Hollywood, Seffner, Pembroke Park, and Tallahassee, FL, on the coming soon list in the Sunshine State. In IONNA permits, a fourth Rechargery is planned for Massachusetts, this time serving Mansfield, close to the border with Rhode Island.

👷‍♂️ The duo over at EV-Texans confirms construction underway for DC fast charging at Walmart Supercenter 3773 in Fort Worth, TX. As we shared last week, the retail giant is also on the cusp of opening its debut locations in several states, including Kansas, Missouri, North Carolina, and Utah. In permitting, AlejandroEV66 and Landon West report two new locations coming soon to Lawrenceville, GA, as well as soon-to-be-revealed sites in Louisiana. Follow/subscribe to The Arkansas eTraveler channel for all the latest on that project.

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News - After months of build-up via charging teasers and coming soon map updates, the first Tesla Semi Megacharger is now open in Ontario, CA.

Numbers - This is the third Megacharger energized, but the first opened at a public location rather than a Tesla manufacturing facility. Charging doesn’t quite reach the giddy heights of 1.2MW demonstrated by the Semi team late last year, but 750kW of power is nonetheless an impressive start for the company’s public electric truck charging.

Nuance - The Tesla Semi was also shown undergoing winter testing in Alaska this week, marking late-stage trials to put the updated model through its paces in cold weather. Latest stats put both the Standard Range (325 miles) and Long Range (500 miles) variants capable of hauling 82,000 pounds GCW at 1,700 Wh per mile. A full-power Megacharger is expected to replenish 60% of that range in half an hour, while the new Ontario, CA, location would be closer to 45%, given the lower power cap.

Next Up - If all goes to plan, the first production Tesla Semis should hit freight routes later this year. More than 60 sites are planned for the initial wave of Megachargers, with the first expected to open this summer. A previously reported partnership with Pilot-Flying J to install Megachargers will ensure convenient access to key routes for many of these early sites.

News - The utility-backed charging network run by BC Hydro shared rate increases with customers for 2026, citing operational stability as the reason for higher prices.

Numbers - Level 2 rates (before tax) will rise to CAD $0.3083 per kWh, up 3.7% from the 2025 rate for AC chargers. DC fast charging, classed as anything at or above 25kW, rises to CAD $0.3969 per kWh, a 10% increase on the current rate of CAD $0.3069 per kWh.

Nuance - Although price hikes are rarely welcomed by customers, annual increases have become the norm, and there’s no denying that BC Hydro has built a “product” worth paying for. The network covers all corners of British Columbia and recently passed the 800 ports milestone, giving EV drivers access across the geographically diverse province.

Next Up - The new rates will take effect on Wednesday, April 1, 2026.

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

This week’s episode comes from our own Coast-to-Coast EVs podcast, where we enjoyed an episode driven by the community members who show up almost every fortnight for EV conversation and camaraderie.

🎧 C-to-C EVs #55: Community Topics, Tangents, + Q&A 💬

This conversation covers a lot of ground, with community members sharing updates from Oklahoma on the latest Francis Energy upgrades with Tesla hardware, to Toyota’s potential to attract new EV buyers among its loyalists, and where Walmart's in-house EV project overlaps with existing Electrify America locations.

There’s something for everyone…assuming that “everyone” is obsessed with EVs and the infrastructure that powers them.

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:

Alpitronic unveils gen. 2 of ubiquitous HYC400 fast charger line

BYD showcases 5-minute EV “flash charging” battery system

US charging sector surges as EV sales slow: what happens next?

Canada shares permit process for Chinese EV imports

Mass. Clean Energy Center nears deadline for bidirectional charging pilot

Colorado Energy Office to host March webinars on MFD charging programs

Minnesota’s 3rd round NEVI RFI is open (through 4/30/26) for 74 DCFC sites. An applicant info session is scheduled for this Wednesday (3/11 at 10AM EDT)

Efficiency Maine is seeking qualified bidders for L2 charging (up to $120K per site)

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 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

The latest round of Colorado’s DCFC Plazas Program is targeted for “Spring 2026” — use the general info page to see previous recipients or sign up for the latest dates/news

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Cheers,

Steve / Plug & Play EV