Good day, fellow e-Traveler ⚡🗺️

Still on the road up in Canada for a few more days this past weekend, so apologies for the delayed send. Enjoy this Québec-centric abridged edition and we’ll be back to the full newsletter next week.

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

📊 Sunday Monday Stat: North America was responsible for 55.8% of Tesla’s Supercharger growth in Q2 2026. Our region added 1,372 new stalls in that period, contributing to a global total of 2,457 new stalls, according to supercharge.info.

News - Circuit électrique (CE) surpassed 500 fast-charging locations earlier this year, with a 9-stall site in Granby last month the most recent addition to the Canadian network.

Numbers - 1,522 ports at 511 DCFC locations across Québec (98%) and Ontario (2%). As the headline suggests, the network now has 500 sites in its home province. On the hardware side, FLO & ABB make up more than 91% of units used at CE fast-charging sites.

Nuance - The network was born of a project at Hydro-Québec in 2012, when the utility sought to harness the province’s abundant and affordable hydropower for transportation. Four partners provided a foundation for early sites: Les Rôtisseries St-Hubert, RONA, exo, and METRO initially came together to make 100 stations available to the public.

Next Up - Other than a handful of sites in neighboring Ontario, Circuit électrique is focused on expansion in Québec to assist EV adoption . The network’s coverage is already impressive, leaving charging power the primary area for improvement. Expect to see more deployments with Kempower hardware and wider use of the FLO Ultra system, as it has done at L’étape on Route 175, to move the network beyond its base of 50-100kW sites.

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News - An uptick for AC additions this week, with more L2 ports added than we reported in edition 78. California dominated this week’s listings, with almost two-thirds of the 700+ ports added in the Golden State.

Numbers - 727 L2 charging ports added to the Alternative Fuels Data Center this week, covering 23 states and 4 Canadian provinces.

Notable New L2 + AFDC Additions:

🔴 Tesla Charging offered its semi-regular update on Wall Connector for Business deployments, with 171 ports covering 22 states and 1 province. With 26 ports added at the Modera residences in Revere Beach, Massachusetts tops the list for the US. In Canada, a residential location also provides the top listing, with 5 ports at the Fontana Condominiums in Markham, ON. This spot also has 3 ChargePoint ports listed, so either an upgrade or expansion for residents.

🟠 ChargePoint added 613 ports across the United States and Canada, including an upgrade to Moorpark College in California, which features almost 150 new ports according to AFDC listings.

🔷 Circuit électrique deployed 30 ports across 9 locations, with one-third in Montréal. 6 ports installed at the arena in Amqui, QC, make for the largest CE addition of the week.

⭕ Red E energized 24 AC ports at 4 US locations covering as many states. The majority are deployed at the Newport Highlands residences in Irondequoit, NY. 4 ports at the Macmillan Pier parking lot also bring much-needed destination charging options to Provincetown, MA, which has very limited DCFC and aging L2 installations.

◾ Blink Charging added 32 new L2 ports at 10 locations in 9 states. 4 ports at The Inn at St, Mary’s in South Bend, IN, bring destination charging for EV-driving guests visiting Notre Dame University and the surrounding area.

🗽 Vialynk added 24 ports at various locations along Broadhollow Rd. in Melville, NY.

News - Another solid week for US fast-charging additions and a resumption of steady business in Canada, now that national celebrations are complete for another year.

Numbers - 393 DC charging ports at 66 charging locations were added to the AFDC, covering 26 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:

⚡ IONNA opened a new Rechargery @ Wawa in South Brunswick, NJ, notching the network’s 122nd location. Progress has been slow since the automaker-backed CPO made it to triple digits all the way back in March, but a large pipeline or permitted sites gives us hope for a summer that brings meaning back to the oft-used term of “IONNA Speed”.

✨ Mercedes-Benz High Power Charging celebrated 900 ports thanks to new locations energized in the Midwest and the network’s latest in Roseland, NJ. This location marks the company’s first in the Garden State and goes some way to bridging the gap between MB-HPC’s bevy of sites in New England and a handful in the Mid-Atlantic.

🍁 Canada gets a little more activity this week, after just a single location recorded in last week’s addition. 8 stalls from BC Hydro in Richmond, BC, is the most compelling, serving students, faculty, and visitors to Kwantlen Polytechnic University with 5 level 2 ports, while the site also offers the familiar 180kW power level of ABB’s Terra DCFC hardware. Congratulations again to the network for passing 900 ports in time for summer travel.

🛒 Walmart EV Charging officially added some locations we’ve covered in previous editions to the AFDC database, for a total of 72 ports at 9 locations in this week’s numbers. On the ground but not yet in the database, new sites are open in several states, including a second for the retailer in Ohio, at Supercenter 5499 in Milford, and another in Vancouver, WA, which is confirmed to have payment card readers.

🔴 Tesla Charging added 48 stalls at 6 locations this week, covering 6 states and no Canadian provinces. This includes 4 Supercharger for Business sites, with 4 stalls at each of the SfB client locations. The largest site is a 16-stall Supercharger in Temecula, CA, but the 500kW, full V4 site in Kellogg, ID, is the one that catches our attention.

⭕ Red E added 6 ports at 2 locations, with the largest energized at the intriguingly named “Off the Grid” in Sandwich, MA. Although this site host conjures up images of remote, self-sustaining locations like PowerStation’s solar-powered site in Baker, CA, this Cape Cod spot is actually a BBQ restaurant. And now it’s one at which you can charge your EV!

📍 Electrify America added another location in collaboration with Rocky Mountain Power (RMP), bringing 6 new stalls to South Jordan, UT. The partnership has now yielded 12 RMP fast-charging sites, which is EA’s second-largest site count with a utility after New York Power Authority’s EVolve NY network, which has 55 sites with Electrify Commercial.

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

🛒 The latest update on the Walmart EV Charging (WEVC) coming soon pipeline, monitored in near real time by Arkansas eTraveler/Wattmart: 321 locations identified across 35 states, with 186 in the permitting stage and 135 under construction. Of the latter, we’ll focus on California’s Neighborhood Markets in Fresno and Vallejo, both of which were recently added to Walmart’s official “Coming Soon” list.

📝 In Tesla permitting, new Supercharger filings identified by MarcoRPi1 for Milford, OH, and Florence, SC. A new Megacharger is also in the pipeline for a Pilot-Flying J travel center in Laredo, TX.

⚪ Other Tesla activity, this time on the Supercharger for Business side, shows new SfB locations coming to Midlothian, TX, and another Francis upgrade slated for Midwest City, OK. ChargedEV Hubs also started construction on its second SfB location in the Southeast, this one in Morrisville, NC.

🟦 EV Infrastructure Report found permits for multiple IONNA Rechargeries and a new bp pulse location in Raleigh, NC. From AlejandroEV66, we have Rechargery permits for Gilbert, AZ, Parker, CO, and Austin, TX.

🎦 Infrastructure design and construction firm 3V3i offered an overhead view of completed construction at IONNA’s latest Rechargery in Houston, TX. There are currently 6 new IONNA locations slated for the city, but only this one looks close.

🚧 Finally, further construction is underway at 500kW Supercharger sites, with full V4 coming soon to Natick, MA, and Albany, OR.

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News - The recent heatwave over the July 4th holiday weekend impacted celebrations and pushed the already summer-strained grid to its limits. On a more positive note, the potential for electric school buses to support the grid during demand spikes was tested in several states.

Numbers - The current 230 electric school buses in fully deployed V2G projects can supply up to 8 MWh of power, which would run approximately 1,600 typical US homes for up to 4 hours.

Nuance - Electric school buses are uniquely suited to this extreme-heat usage pattern because they charge when power is abundant (and prices are low), then sit idle through summer, when electricity demand peaks. This alignment between fleet downtime and grid stress is what makes this fleet solution different from asking passenger EV owners to participate in demand response programs.

Next Up - The largest US regional grid, PJM, needed more than 160,000 MW to meet peak demand during last week's heat event, serving 67 million people. To scale, extending V2G to half of the 6,700 electric school buses already on US roads would yield well over 100 MWh of flexible capacity, and the total fleet is projected to more than double to around 14,625 buses by 2030, many of which will be compatible with V2G programs.

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:

ChargePoint to add 200+ fast chargers in collaboration with Optimus Energy

Voltpost partners with InCharge Energy to expand post charger care & coverage

British Columbia’s fleet operators could explore shared charging infrastructure

Voltra introduces Fabric system for energy infrastructure control & optimization

Alliance for Automotive Innovation releases quarterly EV + charging update

Illinois opened a new, short window of NEVI funding, with $30M available for DCFC but initial applications due by July 20th, 2026

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

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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See you next week ⚡

Cheers,

Steve / Plug & Play EV