Good day, fellow Weather Watcher 🌡️⛈️

As many of us set off on summer road trips or plan holiday weekend travel, it’s the changing weather rather than charging stops that pose challenges. Storms are sweeping the northwest and eastern parts of the continent, with ramifications for where EV drivers choose to charge.

Check out this snippet of IONNA’s Citrus Belt Road Trip to open the Seffner Rechargery in Florida for an example of why we want to see more canopies at EV charging sites. It’s no coincidence that you’ll see several shelter-focused CPOs in this edition!

Wherever you’re heading and whatever you’re charging, plan for a potential change in weather or oppressive heat as those storms move on and summer settles in. There are plenty of interesting spots to juice up at in this week’s edition, so plan those in too.

Here are the US + Canadian EVI developments for the past 7 days ⤵️

📊 Sunday Stat: Less than 3% of DC fast-charging sites in the United States and Canada provide some form of shelter/shade for the hardware and EV drivers.

News - New locations activated in Georgia this year bring the Racetrac DCFC footprint into double digits, with comfort and convenience at the heart of the brand’s deployments.

Numbers - 35 stalls at 12 sites in 4 states, with Texas accounting for 42% of the convenience store brand’s locations to date.

Nuance - Despite the network’s slow growth, Racetrac is committed to the customer experience at the handful of sites it has activated. Every Racetrac EV Charging site so far has a full canopy sheltering the driver and dispensers, as well as squeegee stations, access to a 24/7 c-store with restrooms, and NACS-J3400 handles at most locations. Even with relatively few locations, Racetrac delivers a consistent charging experience that few of its peers can claim.

Next Up - Although Racetrac references “the first of many” and is developing its own “Electric Highway”, progress has been halting since the brand’s first locations opened in 2024 (see this week’s charging site of the week for an early example). While we don’t have specific sites or network plans from Racetrac, we hope that two new sites in Georgia this quarter represent a reboot for the project.

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News - A consistent week for AC additions, with slightly more L2 ports added than we logged in edition 76, spread across a wider base of states and provinces.

Numbers - 485 L2 charging ports added to the Alternative Fuels Data Center this week, covering 28 states and 4 Canadian provinces.

Notable New L2 + AFDC Additions:

🟠 ChargePoint added 355 ports across the United States and Canada (75% of the week’s total), including 10 ports to serve the City of Newport in Kentucky. 14 ports at Toronto’s 55 Broadway garage also add to the Ontario city’s impressive parking/charging options.

⭕ Red E energized 38 AC ports at 4 US locations covering as many states. By far the largest is a StoreLocal site in Napa, CA, where 30 ports are now available on the network.

◾ Blink Charging added 32 new L2 ports at 10 locations in 9 states. The pick of the bunch for us is 4 ports deployed at Princeton Station in Illinois, because who doesn’t love the overlap of EV charging and public transit systems?

🔷 FLO added 18 ports across 6 locations, all but one of which are in Canada. The largest installation brings 4 ports to the Summit Wellness Centre in Coboconk, ON, while the sole US site adds 2 ports at Rainier Beach Library in Seattle, WA.

🗽 Vialynk added 16 ports in its most fertile AC charging market, New York. Most are in Hauppauge, though Plainview and Hicksville also get in on the action.

News - A return to regularly scheduled programming this week, as familiar names like Tesla and EVgo return to the AFDC data download for the past seven days, and site counts appear closer to what actually happened on the ground. Special mention for Kentucky, which opened 5 new fast-charging locations, each serving a unique location and operated by 5 different charging providers.

Numbers - 324 DC charging ports at 55 charging locations were added to the AFDC, covering 22 states and 2 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:

⚡Kentucky’s headline-grabbing week is most striking in the form of PowerUp America’s debut site in Manchester. This full-canopy location with pull-through stalls and Kempower hardware looks remarkably close to the site renders that the company shared last year, which isn’t always the case. The only aspect missing as the site is energized appears to be the driver lounge, though that could come later, and the neighboring Huddle House provides restroom and dining options.

✨ Mercedes-Benz High Power Charging opened two locations, one in an established market and the other in a relatively new state for the network. 10 stalls in Peabody, MA, complete MB-HPC’s existing pipeline of sites in New England, bringing the total to an impressive 15 sites in the region. 6 stalls in Sunbury, OH, near Columbus, add the network’s second site in Ohio, gradually expanding its Midwest presence.

💕 Love’s Travel Stops and Tesla overlapped in Kentucky’s Cave Country, with Love’s lighting up its latest NEVI-funded site in Horse Cave, KY, and Tesla now charging EVs in Cave City, KY.

🔴 Tesla Charging got back on track in the AFDC listings this week, with a full set of locations as we’ve come to expect. The company added 140 stalls at 12 of its own locations this week, covering 9 states and 1 province. Encouragingly, two full V4 locations with power up to 500kW for capable vehicles are on the list this week: Garden Grove, CA, and Florence, OR. The Tesla team also energized 3 Supercharger for Business (SfB) locations for other charging providers, which are detailed further down this section.

🍁 Canada had limited DCFC activity this week, but FLO did energize a couple of stations north of the border. Both have 4 stalls, each capable of up to 100kW, and the Vaudreuil-Dorion site adds chargers at another Metro grocery store in Québec.

🟦 EVgo added 5 locations in California to AFDC, joining Tesla in a great deal of West Coast activity this week. All but one of those sites brings 8 stalls at up to 350kW via the usual Delta Electronics hardware, with two of them at Foodsco grocery stores in Bakersfield, CA. Elsewhere, the grocery site host theme continues with another 8 stalls at a Shoprite store in Covington Township, PA.

⚡ Rivian continued its weekly opening streak with a new Adventure Network location energized in Troy, MI. Once again, this site has only NACS-J3400 handles, which is a hallmark of all the sites we’ve seen opened by Rivian in June. Bring an adapter if you plan to charge at RAN locations this summer.

⚪ On the Supercharger for Business side, 3 new locations were energized, 2 of which are in Utah. Car Charging Pros energized 4 ports in Garden City, UT, while Saini Charge added 8 in Sandy, UT. The third site is owned by Pure Energy in upstate New York, on Grand Island, right on the border with Canada.

⭕ Red E energized 17 ports across 7 sites in as many states, emphasizing the broader expansion underway for the network outside of its core markets. The site at Crow River Winery in Hutchinson, MN, is an example of this, as a migration of existing hardware to the Red E network by Spark Plug Chargers to improve access and reliability.

📍 New Electrify America pins on the map in 3 states (CA/NY/PA), all at 4 stalls. It speaks to the network’s expansion in recent months that these sites now feel small, as EA moves to 10+ stalls to keep pace with demand and increase throughput. This likely comes down to federal funding. The NEVI site in Dansville, NY, is on the EVolve NY network, typically a 4-stall build, and Wawa’s new site in Bristol, PA, follows the same logic.

🛒 Walmart EV Charging opened another location in Texas, bringing its total in the state to 19 sites. The latest is in Hickory Creek and joins sites in Lawrenceville, GA, and Morris, IL, as the three Supercenters to energize DCFC this week. Assuming no other activations before the month is out, that brings the total to 7 new sites for WEVC in June.

🪙 Closing out with Kentucky, where we started this section, Francis Energy added another NEVI site in the state, taking its nationwide total past 40 locations. 4 stalls at the Ideal Market in Nortonville, KY, also bring the state within reach of the top NEVI spots currently occupied by Pennsylvania, New York, and Wisconsin.

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

🟦 EV Infrastructure Report found a permit for a new IONNA Rechargery in Holiday, FL. As with many of the network’s locations in Florida, this one will be at a Wawa.

📝 In Tesla permitting, new Supercharger filings identified by MarcoRPi1 for Port Hawkesbury, NS, Dexter, OR, and Marysville, WA. He also highlights an impressive SfB location planned for Mission Hills in Los Angeles, which includes multiple solar canopies and a dedicated driver area.

🛒 The latest 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 187 in the permitting stage and 146 under construction. Of the latter, we visited Supercenter 2098 in Columbus (pictured below), which should soon be the first WEVC location open in Ohio.

⚪ Other activity on the Tesla Supercharger for Business side shows a new SfB location coming to South Colorado Blvd in Denver, CO (site owner TBC), and construction underway at sites in Midwest City, OK (Francis Energy upgrade) and Burleson, TX (Tiger Farms, new site).

🚧 Construction is also underway at several 500kW V4 Supercharger sites this week, with full V4 coming soon to Kellogg, ID, and Austin, TX.

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 - California-based Terawatt Infrastructure confirmed plans to expand by developing new fleet charging depots, backed by a five-year secured debt facility.

Numbers - The $300M facility is a secured debt arrangement, arranged by a group of international banks led by RBC Capital Markets. It is structured as $150M in committed financing, with the option for an additional $150M.

Nuance - Terawatt notes industry forecasts put the global AV taxi market at $415 billion by 2035, with fleets projected to number up to 6 million autonomous vehicles in that period. Whether these figures become reality is less important than the clear shot in the arm the AV sector is giving to commercial charging infrastructure providers. Coming in the same month as the Voltera/Revel unification, the sector (and those that finance it) clearly sees the potential in building for both AV fleets and electric freight vehicles.

Next Up - The financing announcement specifically references the acquisition and development of new fleet charging depots, so location announcements are now expected in the second half of the year. These will build on Terawatt’s existing pipeline, which includes sites serving I-10 as part of a fleet consortium announced in 2024.

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:

Target confirms more than 100 future fast-charging sites at its US stores

Colorado adds new charging regulations for consumer protection from July 1st

Tesla rolls out forecasted stall availability to select EVs w/ built-in Google Maps

Tellus Power partners with Nayax on integrated charging payment platform

Walmart EV Charging locations now visible in popular mapping/navigation apps

CalEVIP confirms next two windows for Fast Charge California Project (FCCP)

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

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

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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