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Back to our full Sunday EVI programming this week, including returning sections and other regulars following abridged editions during summer travel.

Full Q2 2026 analysis is starting to roll in, including Paren’s always-insightful quarterly reports on DC fast charging in the US and Canada. As we’ve covered extensively in these pages, some DCFC projects are lagging behind their expected progress, leaving US infrastructure especially struggling to keep pace with the record-setting deployments of 2025. Hope for a bumper summer of activity springs eternal, however, in the form of Walmart EV Charging, Tesla Supercharger for Business, and the resurgent NEVI program.

Whether or not one or all of these initiatives will deliver in Q3 is what we’re here to report every week, so let’s dive into North American EVI developments over the past 7 days ⤵️

News - The industry-leading electric automaker cut the ribbon on its first public Megacharger, in Bloomington, CA, marking the start of a new phase in the rollout of the Tesla Semi.

Numbers - 6 charging stalls with MCS v3.2 hardware, capable of delivering up to 1.2 megawatts. That’s an improvement from the 750kW delivered by the earlier MCS v2.4 site that we covered back in March, which Tesla Semi head Dan Priestley subsequently confirmed was for existing fleet use. That location in Ontario, CA is no longer listed on Tesla’s Megacharger map.

Nuance - Although the availability of public fast charging will be a key component of the Semi’s success, Tesla is keen to stress that owned infrastructure, such as private depot charging, remains the most efficient solution for an electric fleet. Control and cost management are long-term fundamentals for fleet managers, and Tesla highlights financial incentives in markets such as California, Washington, Oregon, and Canada as a motivator to run the numbers on its Semi Charging for Business offering.

Next Up - More than 60 locations are on Tesla’s Megacharger map, including 15 sites in California. A partnership with Pilot-Flying J is expected to accelerate deployment, given the travel center chain’s prime locations and commitment to passenger EV charging, with many of these sites expected to open this year.

📊 Sunday Stat: Superchargers accounted for 27% of US DCFC port deployments in Q226, more than the next five charging operators combined. Even with the shadow of Walmart starting to loom over the rest of the charging sector, Tesla Charging added almost 1,200 ports at more than 100 locations, which is more than 3x the pace of its emerging retail rival.

News - The world’s largest retailer continues its expansion into the world of EV charging, with a potentially record-setting start to the third quarter in terms of activations and enough in the pipeline to cement its position as the leading DCFC provider after Tesla.

Numbers - We’ve already covered Walmart’s ascent to second place in Q2 DCFC deployments, but that news is already eclipsed by the retailer’s start to Q3. 94 ports at 11 new sites energized in the first two weeks of July sets the company on a path to add more than 500 ports in Q3, and potentially break into the top 10 US charging providers before the year is out.

Nuance - The inevitable caveat to the excellent update from The Arkansas eTraveler channel above is that Walmart is currently dominating non-Supercharger EV infrastructure. Put the retailer’s port count up against Tesla’s network across any timeframe, weekly, quarterly, or annually, and Superchargers claim the top spot. In total, Tesla’s share of DCFC ports is just below 50% in the United States, while Walmart ended Q226 at 0.8%.

Next Up - As you’ll find in our summary every week, courtesy of Wattmart.community, Walmart EV Charging has hundreds of sites in the pipeline, which equates to thousands of new ports. Not all of them will make it onto the charging map this year, but the stage is set for the network to join the upper echelons of North American CPOs over the next 6-12 months.

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News - A steady week for AC additions, with activity across all of the usual charging providers on both sides of the border.

Numbers - 412 L2 charging ports added to the Alternative Fuels Data Center this week, covering 25 states and 3 Canadian provinces.

Notable New L2 + AFDC Additions:

🟠 ChargePoint added 305 ports across the United States and Canada (74% of the week’s total), including 4 ports at the La Quinta Inn in Shonto, AZ, a location with very little charging of any kind for 50+ miles in every direction. Exactly the kind of example where L2 can bridge a gap until DCFC arrives.

⭕ Red E energized 10 AC ports at 3 locations, in the network’s ever-familiar markets of Michigan and Massachusetts. The largest of the sites brings 6 AC ports of up to 12kW to the Grace Hall Lot in Provincetown, MA.

◾ Blink Charging only added a single location this week, installing 6 ports at the Horizon West Library in Winter Garden, FL.

🔷 FLO added 18 ports across 7 locations, 4 in Canada and 3 in the United States. 6 stalls at the Staybridge Suites in Aurora, ON, make up the largest site in this selection.

🔌EV Gateway added 6 ports at City Hall in Waynesboro, GA, the municipality’s first downtown charging location.

News - A relatively slow week for AFDC additions on the fast-charging front, although Canadian activity showed a notable uptick in deployment and some notable sites were added in the US, such as the 50th Supercharger for Business location and the first NEVI site energized in Illinois.

Numbers - 200 DC charging ports at 39 charging locations were added to the AFDC, covering 19 states and 5 Canadian provinces.

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

Notable New Locations + AFDC Additions:

⚪ Only one new site for Tesla’s Supercharger for Business program this week, but it’s a notable one that puts SfB at 50 locations even. The setup is a familiar 4-stall, V3.5 deployment in Dalton, OH. The location, at local business Pioneer Coffee, emphasizes why the SfB program works. It brings a familiar, reliable charging solution with near-immediate utilization to a place that would not be prioritized for a larger, Tesla-owned Supercharger.

🪙 After a frenetic first week of July, NEVI sites took a breather after July 4th but are back with an important one this week: the program’s first of many sites in the state of Illinois. 4 ports at a Phillips 66 fuel station in Casey, IL, put the Land of Lincoln on the NEVI map, with another 5 sites underway across the state. At the other end of the spectrum, Kentucky continues to chase the leading pack of states (PA/WI/NY/OH) with its 18th NEVI site opening, this one from Francis Energy in Mayfield, KY.

✨ Mercedes-Benz High Power Charging opened another location on the network’s steady march to 100 sites. This one (number 97, according to the MB-HPC map) brings the brand back to the Texas Triangle, an important early market for its growth, with 9 stalls at The Domain in Austin. MB-HPC also unveiled its new Charging Portal in time for summer, giving customers access to key charging session details without needing to download a dedicated app.

🍁 Welcome activity north of the border this week, especially in New Brunswick, where 3 new locations with FLO Ultra hardware are now online. The province doesn’t often appear here, so it’s worth focusing on all 3 sites. They’re on the eCharge network, in Bouctouche, Dieppe, and Saint-Léonard.

📍 More Electrify America pins on the map in New York and Utah, as utility-led networks EVolve NY (from NYPA) and Rocky Mountain Power (RMP) continue to build out their state-focused charging initiatives. NYPA adds an EVolve NY location that’s not hard (not hard) to reach in Rockaway Park (not Beach), while RMP adds 6 stalls in West Valley City, UT. EA’s third location this week is the Illinois NEVI site, covered above.

🛒 Walmart EV Charging didn’t squeeze any entries into the AFDC this week, but on the ground it maintained the pace that pushed the network up to second place in Q2. 5 new locations at stores in as many states emphasize the nationwide scope that the project has achieved this year, with sites as far west as Bonney Lake, WA, and another activated 2,000 miles to the east in Skokie, IL. All of the sites are in states where Walmart has already opened a debut location, bringing the total to 18 states.

⚡IONNA updated 5 former Circle K Charge locations and opened a new Rechargery Relay at a Refuel Travel Center in Raleigh, NC. Although the Circle K upgrades don’t add new pins to the map, they do boost power and ports for the convenience retailer, as well as adding to IONNA’s overall site count. Notably, the network dropped to 7th position in Q226, down from 2nd in Q125.

🐊 Florida Power & Light made a rare appearance this week, with a new location added to the FPL Evolution network at a retail center in Deerfield Beach, FL.

🟡 Sticking with the Sunshine State, Shell Recharge also energized a new location in Florida this week. 4 dispensers serve 6 stalls at this site in Orlando, FL, which doubles down on Shell’s recent strategy to focus on DCFC at fuel stops and larger metro hubs, rather than the broader retail and municipal sites it had previously acquired.

🔴 Perhaps Megachargers stole the show this week, as Tesla Charging had an otherwise light week by its own high standards. 64 stalls at 5 of its own locations were added, including a new country for these pages, thanks to a site in Villahermosa, Mexico. For context, there are 37 Superchargers in the country, and the last site opened by Tesla was in September 2025, the only one of the year. Back in the States, a 26-stall site in Chino, CA, is our pick.

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: 316 known locations across 35 states, with 186 in the permitting stage and 130 under construction. Of the latter, Supercenter 2559 in Kalispell, MT, catches the eye, as it has made the company’s official “coming soon” list and will be the first opened in the state and the wider northern Rockies region.

🟦 EV Infrastructure Report found a permit for multiple IONNA upgrades to existing Circle K charging sites, including Goodyear, AZ, and several in Texas. AlejandroEV66 also identified an upgrade lined up for Wenatchee, WA, and a full Rechargery permitted for Princeton, NJ.

📝 In Tesla permitting, new Supercharger filings identified by MarcoRPi1 for Modesto, CA, Tampa, FL, and Centerville, UT. As we’re in Tesla Semi mode this week, here’s a construction update from a new Megacharger in La Porte, TX.

⚪ Other activity on the Tesla Supercharger for Business side shows a new SfB location coming to Lutz, FL (Mail Depot), and Midlothian, TX (Texas Best Smokehouse).

🚧 Construction is underway at several 500kW V4 Supercharger sites this week, with full V4 coming soon to Brisbane, CA, Natick, MA, and Tillamook, OR. A new SfB location for EVODS in Washington State is also confirmed as underway by CEO and founder Leigh Hunt, with a video update on Linkedin.

👋🏻 On a different tip for this section, Tim R. highlights above the (now former) V2 Tesla Supercharger in Buckhorn/Bloomsburg, PA, which looked like a potential upgrade but ended up being removed entirely.

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With the Tesla Semi and Megachargers taking the spotlight this week, it’s worth remembering that there are many operators outside of the EV leader working to electrify fleets and build charging infrastructure for commercial vehicles. EV Realty is one of them, and the company already has an impressive charging hub up and running in San Bernardino, CA.

Join Clean Trucking’s Jay Traugott for an inside look at that facility in the video below.

News - DCFCtracker analyzed price changes at Tesla Superchargers from June to July 2026, flagging states with the highest and lowest price swings and quantifying the payment gap between Tesla owners/members and those EV drivers who don’t subscribe to the network’s monthly charging plan.

Numbers - Non-members pay $0.605/kWh on average, while Tesla owners (and non-Tesla EV drivers who pay the $12.99/month fee) rates average out at $0.433/kWh. The overall gap is 28% lower rates for owners/members, with the break-even point at 76 kWh of energy delivered for those who pay the fee.

Nuance - Although the flat average at just above 60 cents is high, it obscures both sharp individual shifts in key markets and the increasing value of the Tesla Supercharger membership plan. Rates were down by 7.6% here in Massachusetts and neighboring Rhode Island rates dropped 5.4%. Hawaii was predictably the most expensive state, but increases of 5% or more in Nevada and Virginia could motivate non-Tesla drivers in those states to sign up for the monthly subscription.

Next Up - Tesla has previously cited savings of up to 40% for members, compared to those who just pull in and pay the going rate. This report pegs the average savings at 28%, which could either represent temporary summer rates or an overstatement from Tesla to convert more EV drivers to a membership plan. With monthly reports now rolling, it will be easier for non-Tesla EV owners to gauge the value of signing up for a Supercharger plan.

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:

PlugShare introduces AI-driven check-in summaries to location listings

Onvo and ChargePoint team up on 12 Northeast travel center charging sites

Melted component raises timely alert around DCFC adapter use

Electric Era introduces financially-backed charger reliability guarantee

Volt Vault expands product line with battery-integrated charging system

Illinois is running a short window of NEVI funding, with $30M available for DCFC (deadline: End of day 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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Steve / Plug & Play EV

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