Good day, fellow future Flash Charger ⚡🏁

Early signs surfaced this week that the future of fast charging could arrive on our shores sooner than expected. Companies these days don’t typically invest in charging infrastructure without a business model to go along with it, which makes China-native EV brands feel that bit closer to their North America debut.

On the other hand, Build American Buy American (BABA) continues to get a boost from the NEVI program, as charging hardware with domestic sourcing requirements is installed at 200+ DCFC locations across the United States. Almost 1,000 ports with BABA stipulations have been installed across 22 states as of this writing, underscoring the alignment of federal infrastructure investment with domestic manufacturing jobs.

For all that and more, here are the latest US + Canadian EVI developments ⤵️

News - A BYD job posting for a business development role in Toronto reveals Flash Charging technology is planned for Canada. The highly anticipated system should bring single-digit charging times to North America, as demonstrated outside of China with its launch this week in the UK.

Numbers - BYD has boiled the Flash system down to three numbers: “Ready in 5. Full in 9. Cold, add 3.” Those all refer to minutes spent charging, with 5 minutes for 10-70% state of charge, 9 minutes to reach 97%, and 12 minutes (9+3) if temperatures fall below -30°C/-22°F. Notably, time overtakes power in the coverage, with 1,500 kW/1.5 Megawatt power levels buried beneath the time comparison to filling up a traditional ICE vehicle.

Nuance - Remember when the Supercharger network was a closed network that effectively sold Teslas? BYD might be positioning to follow a similar strategy with Flash Charging. Only this time, it’s the technology underpinning BYD’s Blade battery that could sway the purchase decision. In the near term, the charge times outlined above will only be available to BYD models, which could tempt buyers in Canada to an automaker that is otherwise untested in the country

Next Up - Unlike US automakers (other than Tesla), BYD understands the need to establish charging infrastructure before trying to sell the vehicles that will use it. If the company’s target of 20 Canadian dealerships in its first year in the market holds true, expect to see deployment of Flash Charging in one or all of British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec within the next 12 months.

📊 Sunday Stat: 59% of NEVI sites open so far are located at gas stations, travel centers, or service plazas. Site hosts and operators such as Love’s, Kwik Trip, Pilot-Flying J, and Applegreen Electric have dominated the program’s initial deployment. This is due to the original NEVI stipulation that states must cover designated Alternative Fuel Corridors (AFCs) with a DCFC site every 50 miles or less and within a mile of the AFC exit, before securing permission to proceed with other locations.

With retail properties (which make up only 11% of NEVI sites so far) typically more than that distance from an Interstate exit, convenience retailers and travel services have swooped to scoop up those early NEVI awards. Expect to see other site types reclaim some of that ground in upcoming solicitations, now that FHWA has removed the 50-mile restriction and more advanced NEVI states have covered their primary travel routes.

News - Less a charging network and more an effort to catalyze investment in fast charging across the US, the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program nonetheless reached a notable milestone this week, with 200+ locations energized.

Numbers - 213 NEVI award-winning sites are active across the country, but several sites were selected but did not receive funding due to the FHWA-induced program pause last year. Removing those still keeps us at just over 200 NEVI locations, spread across 22 states and 16 charging operators. With almost 40 sites open, Pennsylvania leads the nation in NEVI deployment. PA has almost twice as many locations open as Wisconsin, which has surged this year and now sits in second place.

Nuance - In addition to the awarded sites that proceeded without funding during the 2025 pause, which include several Tesla Superchargers in Alaska and a trio of sites for Meijer/EVgo in Ohio, some of the 200 funded sites have tales to tell. Select Pilot-Flying J locations, including Pennsylvania’s first NEVI site in Pittston, are currently offline for expansion, demonstrating demand for sites that the program has deployed.

Next Up - As you can see from the funding section later in this newsletter, NEVI solicitations are in full swing, and many have deadlines this month. Expect a flurry of new NEVI award announcements from state DOTs over the summer, with many shifting the focus from travel corridors to community charging and secondary highways. The construction side is similarly busy, with approximately 100 locations in the pipeline between permitted status and ready to energize. Check out this map for NEVI locations open and under construction.

Advertisement

A lead comes in on Instagram. Another on Messenger. Three more on SMS.

Your team switches tabs, repeats answers, and loses context while hot leads wait hours for replies. At 2am, nobody responds at all.

That’s not a people problem. It’s a process problem.

Wati brings Instagram DM, Facebook Messenger, TikTok, WhatsApp, SMS, RCS, and web chat into one AI-powered inbox. Automations instantly respond, qualify leads, and route conversations to the right person, 24/7.

Your team stops firefighting. Your leads stop waiting. Your pipeline starts moving.

See How Wati Works

News - AC charging maintained a steady pace over the past seven days, with positive reports across both countries and similar numbers to last week.

Numbers - 508 L2 charging ports added to the Alternative Fuels Data Center this week, spread across 25 states and 5 Canadian provinces.

Notable New L2 + AFDC Additions:

🟠 ChargePoint added 283 ports across the United States and Canada (56% of the week’s total), including 20 stalls for employees and visitors at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. On the accommodation side, 4 new ports are available for guests at The Sewanee Inn, which serves The University of the South in Sewanee, TN.

◾ Blink Charging added 24 new L2 ports at 6 locations in as many states. The pick of the bunch is 8 ports at the Greenbelt Branch Library in Greenbelt, MD, although our eyes (and stomachs) are also drawn to 4 ports at the Hawai’ian Bros. Grill in Scottsdale, AZ.

✨ EnviroSpark shared that 6 ports are now available at the Midtown Place parking lot in Atlanta, GA. With a wide variety of retail and dining within walking distance and a busy area, according to locals, it will be intriguing to watch the utilization at this site.

⭕ Red E energized 22 AC ports at 5 locations in 2 states. No prizes for guessing the states involved, as Michigan is the network’s HQ and Massachusetts has become a home away from home for Red E fast-charging installs. 4 ports installed by Island Charging stand out on Grosse Ile, MI, as they appear to be the only L2 option on the small island, sandwiched between suburban Detroit and the Canadian border with Ontario.

🔷 FLO got back on track with 28 L2 ports across 9 locations, spanning 4 provinces and 1 state. 4 ports at LloydMall in Lloydminster, AB, gives us the chance to spotlight Alberta in the AC section, which doesn’t happen all that often. The company’s only site in the US comes to Washington State, with 8 new ports for an apartment complex in Pullman, WA.

News - One of the quietest weeks we can recall for AFDC additions, not helped by the lack of a data drop from Tesla this week. A quick check of either Tesla Charging’s X account or supercharge.info reveals plenty of new Superchargers across the US over the past 7 days, so expect a boost to next week’s numbers when the company catches up.

Numbers - For the week, 73 DC charging ports at 23 charging locations were added to the AFDC, covering just 14 states and two Canadian provinces.

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

Notable New Locations + AFDC Additions:

📶 Electrify America continues to build bigger sites, with 12 stalls in Capistrano Beach, CA, the one to embody that trend this week. With limited options along this stretch of I-5 south of Los Angeles, the bigger the better. Two more EA locations combine to add another 6 stalls each, with Live Oak, TX (with IKEA), and Midvale, UT (with Rocky Mountain Power), rounding out another good week for the network.

🟦 Circuit électrique logged two locations with this week’s date, each with 2 ports. The site in Brownsburg, QC, installed at Gilles Lupien Arena, is the municipality’s first DC fast charging location.

◾ 4 stalls at the Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin, IL, add to the Blink network, with Heartland Charging Services also named in the deployment via AFDC listings.

🔴 Tesla Charging didn’t show up in the AFDC listings, but on the ground, new Superchargers sprouted from coast-to-coast as we’ve come to expect. Supercharge dot info records 9 Tesla-owned sites and 2 SfB locations, which are operated by Tesla but owned by a third party. A full V4 Supercharger brings 500kW DCFC to Beaverton, OR, while 24 stalls in Albuquerque, NM, make up the largest site of the week, and 16 stalls at a Wawa in Fredericksburg, VA, take us across to the East Coast.

⚪ Focusing on the white-label SfB sites, one is a truly new location that brings 4 stalls to Eagle Travel Plaza in West, TX. The second continues the transition of existing Francis Energy sites in Oklahoma to Tesla hardware, with 4 stalls upgraded in Owasso, OK. Notably, this brings the Francis/SfB project up to 100 stalls exactly, a milestone celebrated on LinkedIn by the company’s Chief Strategy Officer, Seth Christ.

🍁 Petro Canada upgraded a site in British Columbia, with the fueling chain’s Abbotsford c-store the latest to activate 2 ChargePoint Express Plus units at an existing location.

⭕ Along with EA, Red E was the other regular contributor to keep things moving during a slow week, with 14 ports added across 5 locations in as many states. The additions include automotive retail, fueling stations, such as QuikTrip Scottsdale in Arizona, and a golf course. The latter gets the works, with 4 DCFC stalls alongside 6 L2 ports at the Warren Valley course in Dearborn, MI.

🎀 Energized EV shared news of its first site, now live at a Shell fuel station in Lexington, KY. The location brings 4 stalls at up to 240kW, powered by AUTEL Maxicharger DC units.

⚡ British Columbia’s Plug EV deployed 4 new ports on home turf, with a new site at Sunrise Park in Vancouver, BC, energized earlier this week.

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

📝 Starting with Tesla permitting, diverse new Supercharger filings identified by MarcoRPi1 start with almost 100 stalls slated for Willows, CA. Meanwhile, for San Antonio, TX, a new AV charging hub is planned with 56 private-use taxi stalls. On the regular Supercharger side, new permits for Shreveport, LA, and Milpitas, CA. And Tesla’s first Semi Megacharger in Florida is also unearthed, with 4 stalls planned for the Flying J Travel Center in Fort Pierce, FL.

⚪ Activity on the Tesla Supercharger for Business side shows new SfB locations planned for Loxahatchee Groves, FL (ROAM Energy) and Killeen, TX (VIKTA). On the fleet side, a new Forum Mobility charging hub in Rancho Dominguez, CA, will include 10 Tesla Megachargers alongside CCS options from other hardware OEMs, including Kempower.

🔮 Lots of Tesla to dive into this week, as Marco also shared the updated Supercharger Projections Map, which contains the 30 new locations in the image below ⤵️

🛒 Walmart EV Charging (WEVC) locations have been quieter the last couple of weeks, although plenty of construction is ongoing. The project’s coming soon pipeline, monitored in near real-time by Arkansas eTraveler/Wattmart, looks almost the same as last week, minus one opening: 312 known locations across 34 states, with 176 in the permit stage and 136 under construction. Of the latter, this week’s notable location is Supercenter 2357 in Germantown, MD, which now has fences up and could become the first WEVC location to open in Maryland this summer.

🟦 Moving on from Superchargers, EV Infrastructure Report shared permits for a new EVgo location slated for Smith’s Grocery Store in Salt Lake City, UT.

🗽 ChargeSmart EV confirmed that work has begun on the network’s latest location, which will bring 8 × 320kW stalls to the waterfront of Rochester, NY.

🟠 Official announcements from IONNA continue at a steady clip after a quiet couple of months, with 5 new Rechargeries (3 x FL, 1 x MD, 1 x NV) shared in a “coming soon” post on X. No new permits were noted this week, but work at the Lafayette Rechargery @ Wawa in Indiana looks set to align with the new build c-store, which has its grand opening later this month. That’s set for Wed. 24th June, if you’re in the area.

🚧 Construction swept across Wisconsin’s NEVI program over the past six months, with the state moving from 11 active NEVI sites before Thanksgiving 2025 to 21 open and 13 more in progress at the time of writing, according to the WEVI dashboard. This includes several Kwik Trip locations and a handful from program leader, Francis Energy, which are all neatly summed up in the wider Great Lakes region NEVI update from WisconsEV, linked below… 👇🏻👀

Is there an upcoming site in your area that the EV community needs to know about?

Reply to this email with the location and charging provider (if known), and we’ll add it to the next edition 🙌🏻

News - Fleet charging specialist Mobility House North America confirmed its best quarter to date, with projects commissioned in Q2’26 topping 15MW and putting the company above a notable milestone.

Numbers - Added to the rest of Mobility House NA’s portfolio, the 15MW added in Q2 puts the company's fleet capacity under management at more than 100MW. This includes schools, municipalities, transit agencies, and freight clients across the US and Canada.

Nuance - The real meat of the news is in the fleet mix that underpins the 100MW milestone, rather than the number itself. The school buses, transit vehicles, university shuttles, and administrative-duty EVs share a common theme: publicly funded operators with predictable duty cycles and grid constraints. These are the profiles that make managed charging and vehicle-to-grid applications compelling, while shifting the driver for fleet electrification from sustainability targets to wider commercial viability.

Next Up - Though the milestone is a notable number, it represents a relatively small segment of the company’s global portfolio. But North American fleet EV charging is gradually building a foundation from which to match more mature markets like Europe. In the meantime, as fleets are able to participate in more utility programs and get compensated for flexibility, the economics of fleet electrification start to make more sense for budget-constrained municipalities and school districts.

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:

Optimus Energy Solutions acquires Duke Energy DCFC sites in South Carolina

Tritium launches energy infrastructure GRID-FLEX system to data centers + more

i-charging unveils 500kW Blueberry Cluster charging hardware

Carbon DC + PowerStation deliver free off-grid fast charging in Mojave Desert

Wallbox receives almost $17M (CAD) via Canada’s Clean Fuel Credit program

EVIO Supercharger in New York doubles as test drive site for Tesla FSD

Colorado’s latest round of Fleet-ZERO charging grants opened this week

California Clean Fuel Reward (CCFR) opens enrollment for M-HDEV rebates

Maryland’s round 3 NEVI solicitation is open for applications (through 6/24/26)

Michigan will issue its round 3 NEVI RFP soon, with applications due in July

A fresh round of Colorado’s DCFC Plazas Program ($17M) is now open (due: 7/10/26)

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

Oregon will open round 3 NEVI solicitations this summer

If you found this edition useful, please pass it on to a friend, colleague, or family member interested in electrification.

See you next week ⚡

Cheers,

Steve / Plug & Play EV

🥵 ^{This edition fueled by: Any and all cold brew. Black. But mostly, cold.}

🎵 ^{Spinning this Sunday: Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill}

^{📺 Watching this Week: Endless World Cup 2026 games ⚽}