Good day, fellow Efficiency Extrapolator ⚡🧮🔋

The charging landscape at the midpoint of 2027 will look quite different from what we see today. In fact, six months is enough to make a significant difference, as we’ll unpack in the final Coast-to-Coast EVs livestream on Wednesday, before our summer break.

The biggest difference for DCFC in the United States right now is that travel corridors are not only covered, but they’re also competitive. States and regions with solid EV adoption are the focus of multiple CPOs, established and aspiring, who are working to develop sustainable, long-term operations and densify suburban coverage. And along many key corridors, travel center chains like this week’s spotlight charging vendor are giving EV drivers multiple DC options within a mile of Interstate exits.

The next thing we need to see? More consistency, in terms of pricing, power, and the wider driver experience. Keeping tabs on all that and more, here are your latest US + Canadian EVI developments over the past 7 days ⤵️

News - Electrify America (EA) opened its joint-largest charging site to date, including a healthy dose of battery storage to keep its impact on the grid in check. The Carillo Street station is located in Santa Barbara, CA, and repurposes a former Greyhound bus station.

Numbers - 20 stalls at 350kW is the kind of number you’ll see every week in our Fast Forward section, but the juicy digits at this site lie in the batteries. 1.9 MW of energy storage represents EA’s largest BESS deployment so far, despite having deployed more than 170 sites with batteries across the network’s 1,000+ locations.

Nuance - In recent years, Electrify America has steadily built a portfolio of clean energy generation and storage systems. The Solar Glow™ 1 installation in California generates up to 75MW across the solar farm at peak output, and EA’s battery storage deployments earned the company several awards last year. Putting BESS at the heart of its latest flagship emphasizes two things: 1) lower battery costs, combined with rising utility rates, make energy storage and EV charging an increasingly sensible combination, and 2) larger site formats will make the integration of batteries a more viable option for CPOs.

Next Up - As well as emphasizing the importance of BESS, this location epitomizes a pressing challenge facing Electrify America: the transition to NACS-J3400 handles. Opening a flagship site with only CCS1 connectors in 2026 introduces complexity at this location for more than half the market, one that other operators resolve with built-in adapters or hybrid sites offering both plug types. EA’s single-connector dispenser makes this more challenging, but NACS-J3400 ports are promised for this site later this year.

📊 Sunday Stat: Tesla is responsible for 34% of Canada’s DCFC bays. As it opens the country’s largest fast-charging location, Tesla dominates stall count in Canada but lags when it comes to site count. With around 3,000 stalls operating north of the border, Tesla has twice as many as the nearest competitor, Circuit électrique (CE). Switch to sites and the picture shifts, as the Supercharger network drops to 4th, behind FLO in 1st, then CE and ChargePoint in 2nd and 3rd, respectively.

News - Love’s has been quietly consistent over the past month, adding at least one site every week to the company’s targeted expansion at travel centers across the US. This cadence also helped push the NEVI program past 200 active sites, as reported last week.

Numbers - The dedicated in-house Love’s network, operated primarily on ChargePoint’s platform and hardware, comprises 91 ports at 24 locations in 9 states. This increases when factoring in other network operators hosted at Love’s locations, such as Electrify America, Francis Energy, and Tesla Superchargers, but it is the in-house sites managed by Love’s Alternative Energy that we’re focused on for this spotlight.

Nuance - Love’s has taken a more cautious approach to fast-charging integration than competitors like Pilot-Flying J, which now has nearly 300 US charging locations. The Love’s project has tracked closely with public funding opportunities, building where awards are won at the state (Smith’s Station, AL) or federal level (multiple NEVI sites), with all of the associated cost benefits and delays/red tape that come with it.

Next Up - With the NEVI program revitalized and gearing up for another round of award announcements from multiple states, expect the Love’s Charging project pipeline to swell in the next few months. According to the NASEO NEVI awards dashboard, Love’s has 100+ site awards totaling $64.5M in funding, even before the latest solicitations share their winners.

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News - Plenty of outlets reported the US passing 250,000 charging ports this week, although the current AFDC count of 249,229 shows the flexibility of that number, as networks adjust their numbers. How “public” some of these ports are is also questionable, given the preponderance of dealership charging and other inaccessible locations, such as private apartment and workplace access. Nonetheless, we know that more ports are added every week, and this section is here to tell you about the AC side 👇🏻

Numbers - 498 L2 charging ports added to the Alternative Fuels Data Center this week, covering 26 states and 4 Canadian provinces.

Notable New L2 + AFDC Additions:

🟠 ChargePoint added 341 ports across the United States and Canada (68% of the week’s total), including 18 ports at the Alan B. Miller Medical Center in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, and 6 ports at the University of Pittsburgh Panther Hollow lot in Pennsylvania.

🔷 FLO also had a good week, with 23 ports added across 5 locations, many of them in the United States. Almost half of that total is deployed for residents of the Sentosa Epperson apartments in Wesley Chapel, FL, while north of the border we get 6 ports in Ontario, including 4 (currently free) ports at the Memorial Civic Centre in Brockville, ON.

◾ Blink Charging added 12 new L2 ports at 5 locations in 8 states. The largest installation brings 8 ports to the “Parking Ramp” in Bloomington, MN, which could prove useful for guests at one of three hotels on the same block.

🗽 Vialynk added 20 ports in the Tri-state area, with 16 ports at two New York state locations and 4 more across the border in New Jersey. 12 at the Valley East Merchants Concourse in Westbury, NY, is the largest of the three, a second in NY adding 4 more, and a third site bringing 4 ports to the ACI Medical/Dental School in Eatontown, NJ.

⭕ Red E energized 22 AC ports at 5 locations in 2 states, mostly in Massachusetts. 4 ports at the Sunbird Resort on Cape Cod add to a solid presence for the CPO in West Yarmouth, MA, where the network already offers the only DC fast charging in town.

News - Long-anticipated data gaps in the Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC) are beginning to appear, as another quiet week also sees older records disappearing from the AFDC listings and lacks notable names, such as Tesla and Walmart, for the second week in a row. Watch this explainer from Walter at tNAC to understand where some of those DCFC sites went.

Numbers - Taking the numbers as only a small part of what actually happened across the continent this week, 159 DC charging ports at 28 charging locations were added to the AFDC, covering just 17 states and 3 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:

📶 In addition to its headline-grabbing flagship site, Electrify America opened up two other locations. One in Sunnyside, NY, adds to the NEVI total, which last week passed 200 active sites, and the other brings 12 stalls to a Target store in Springfield, MO.

🟦 Circuit électrique added 6 stalls at varying power levels, up to a maximum of 180kW, to the doubly-named Hotel Motel Granby in Québec.

⚡ Rivian partially opened a site that we featured not too long ago in the pipeline section, with 6 of 12 new stalls now available in Bow, NH. This one brings the NACS-only trend that RAN has been cultivating elsewhere to the Northeast, with CCS1-equipped vehicles requiring an adapter (bring your own) to charge at this location.

⭕ Red E was another CPO bolstering the 200+ NEVI count this week, with a new site online at the Lancaster Travel Plaza in Ronks, PA. This is currently a free location and not yet showing up in AFDC listings, so thanks to Matt K. for the heads up, photos, and PlugShare check-in on this one.

📶 Red E also added plenty of officially listed locations this week, with 4 sites opened in the company’s most prolific states for DCFC: Massachusetts and Michigan. The largest of this group is a 6-stall site at an Exxon fuel station in Seekonk, MA.

🔴 Tesla Charging didn’t show up in the AFDC listings again, but if you’ve been reading this newsletter for any length of time, you’ll know the Supercharger network never sleeps. Flipping over to the ever-reliable supercharge.info website, we can see that Tesla added 141 stalls at 13 of its own locations this week, covering 8 states and 1 province (more on that one next). No true V4 sites in this batch, but 12 stalls each for Jersey City, NJ, and Alexandria, VA, add redundancy to options for mid-Atlantic EV drivers.

🍁 Canada isn’t always a hotspot for Supercharger activity, but this week is the exception that proves the rule. The country’s largest Tesla charging location (pictured below) opened in Ontario. The 44-stall site in Ajax, about 30 miles east of Toronto, narrowly beats out the 40-stall Supercharger on the other side of the country, in Richmond, BC, which opened almost three years ago.

⚪ On the Supercharger for Business side, new locations in Fairburn, GA (owned by US Charging), El Cajon, CA (Charge&Go), and San Diego, CA (Manolo Market), all add to the SfB program’s expanding footprint.

🏁 New IONNA Rechargeries in Lafayette, IN, and another site upgraded for Circle K, in Divernon, IL, maintain slow but steady progress for the rising network, which has an ultimate goal of 30,000 DCFC bays by 2030. For a pulse check, DCFCtracker currently has IONNA at 1,136 stalls across 120 locations in 30 states.

🛣️ bp pulse opened another travel center location and adds a new state to its collection in doing so, with the activation of 12 stalls at the TravelCenters of America in Grand Bay, AL. This is a useful site, bridging a gap on a stretch of I-10 with few fast-charging options.

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

📝 In Tesla permitting, new Supercharger filings identified by MarcoRPi1 for Denver, CO, Leland NC, and an especially welcome addition in Martinsburg, WV. More details too on the phase plan for a huge Supercharger to be gradually deployed in Yermo, CA.

📍 Additionally, we have more Tesla locations mapped for future fast-charging activity in this fresh batch of projected Supercharger sites from Marco.

🟦 EV Infrastructure Report found a permit for IONNA’s Rechargery in Magnolia, TX.

⚪ Activity on the Tesla Supercharger for Business side shows new SfB locations planned for Pensacola, FL (ROAM Energy) and Isle of Palms, SC (owner TBC). Construction is also underway at the TigerMart SfB location in Burleson, TX, and another in Franksville, WI (at A&W, owner TBC).

🪙 NEVI sites in Pennsylvania continue to flip from planned to in progress, but it’s those at an advanced stage on Wawa lots catching our eye this week, like this one in Upper Darby, PA. A trio of sites has Electrify America-branded Alpitronic hardware on the ground, which will double the number of HYC400-equipped EA sites. This also means more NACS-J3400 locations for the network, presumably requested by the c-store, as we’ve seen the Sheetz-owned EA location in New Stanton, PA.

🔶 With R2 deliveries underway, we expect to see more from Rivian's charging sites in the second half of the year. One of those is close to home here in New England, with an Adventure Network site breaking ground in Manchester, CT, earlier this month. Thanks to fellow EV obsessive Eli for the heads up on that burgeoning DCFC oasis!

🟠 IONNA is increasingly batching up site announcements across multiple weeks, so it’s sometimes tough to separate the new sites from those we’ve already identified. Four Rechargeries in Florida and one each for Maryland and Nevada are included in the company’s latest pipeline post.

🚧 Construction is also underway at several 500kW V4 Supercharger sites this week, with full V4 coming soon to these locations: Moreno Valley, CA | Paducah, KY | Concord, NH | Walla Walla, WA.

🛒 To update on the Walmart EV Charging (WEVC) coming soon pipeline, monitored in near real-time by Arkansas eTraveler/Wattmart: 326 known locations across 34 states, with 191 in the permit stage and 135 under construction. Of the latter, dirt being turned at Supercenter 1764 in Windsor Heights, IA, catches the eye, as this will probably be the first WEVC location activated in Iowa.

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News - Inspiration Mobility announced a notable acquisition that will see the fleet-focused operator integrate Electrada's team, technology, and charging assets.

Numbers - At the time of acquisition, Electrada serves more than 375 fleet depots with charging services, across all vehicle classes. Inspiration Mobility Group is tapping into an experienced team + technology that reports more than 10 million ZEV miles a year.

Nuance - Backed by several international infrastructure investment specialists, Inspiration Mobility has deeper pockets than Electrada. As operators position themselves to weather the storm of political and economic uncertainty that is currently slowing electrification efforts on several fronts, this is one of many agreements we can expect to see over the next 18 months.

Next Up - Consolidation continues across the charging industry, especially in sectors like fleet, where operating cost is everything. Inspiration has proved its ability to develop a platform that serves as a single source of truth for electric fleet management and adding Electrada’s assets to its portfolio will only strengthen this offering.

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:

Empower initiative sets path for vehicle-to-grid applications across GM EV lineup

Adopt a Charger secures $5M funding for 328 L2 ports in Washington State

Red E reaches 2,000 DC port milestone in the United States

Plug & Charge rolls out for some Volvo all-electric models

Free charging deals are declining, but not dead, for 2027 model year EVs

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

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

Maryland’s round 3 NEVI solicitation is due this week (6/24/26)

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.

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

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Cheers,

Steve / Plug & Play EV

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