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As much as I’ve tried to focus on other DCFC projects this week, my attention keeps getting dragged back to Q2’s deployment-leading duo: Tesla and Walmart. The latter, we know, is accelerating at an almost scary pace. After setting a record in May, 5 more sites this month will see July take that record.

For Tesla, the expansion is more nuanced. Larger sites at a steadier pace appear to be the norm for the company’s owned-and-operated sites this year, but it’s Supercharger for Business (SfB) sites that add a wildcard.

What began as smaller 4-8 stall locations could soon yield much more ambitious projects. Two examples: 1) the largest SfB location spotted yet, and 2) EVIO’s planned network, which started recently with a single V3.5 site in New York state but now promises to blanket the East Coast with full V4 Superchargers, almost as quickly as Tesla itself.

The sector continues to tilt in intriguing directions, many of which we unpack in our summary of North American EVI developments over the past 7 days ⤵️

News - In partnership with the provincial government, BC Hydro shared plans to invest $700M and increase its network capacity almost 4x, with a heavy focus on expanding fast charging and increasing DCFC power levels across the province.

Numbers - The utility currently operates 917 ports at 190 locations across British Columbia. The DC to AC/L2 split is approximately 80% DCFC to 20% destination charging. Less than 10% of those locations offer power at levels greater than 180kW, which hints at the network’s next challenge.

Nuance - This plan encapsulates the wider challenge facing early adopter provinces like BC and Québec: both built DC fast charging foundations that the capabilities of modern EVs have since outpaced. With affordable models now routinely exceeding 200kW at peak charging and 400kW shared-power dispensers becoming the US norm, the pressure to level up increases every year. The real question is what happens to the older 50-100kW hardware? Steady upgrades alongside existing units, or the more aggressive rip-and-replace approach adopted by EVgo and Electrify America south of the border.

Next Up - BC Hydro’s plans will expand the provincial network to 3,500 ports by 2035. Although no specific locations have been shared, expect larger charging hubs in areas of high demand (read: densely populated metro areas and popular tourist destinations) and 200kW hardware as a baseline, ramping to 400kW for locations that need quicker throughput.

📊 Sunday Stat: The Electric Era charging network logged 3x more charging sessions YOY in the first half of 2026, but average session duration did not increase, according to CEO Quincy Edmund Lee. A third metric explains that away and underscores a key factor for CPO throughput projections: share of sessions hitting 150kW or above more than doubled in the same period, from 16% in H125 to 34% in H126.

News - Electrify America confirmed that the first of its NACS-J3400 connector retrofits to an existing CCS1-only site has started. The indoor Harrison St flagship site in San Francisco now has 2 x NACS-J3400 handles in place, as do two other large-format sites in California.

Numbers - 5,823 fast-charging stalls at 1,168 sites, covering 47 states (Alaska, West Virginia, and Vermont have yet to host an EA location). In terms of NACS-J3400 ports, the network now has 30 ports at 8 locations in 4 states.

Nuance - Utility-led charging networks and other Electrify Commercial arrangements, such as partnerships with Costco and WS Development, comprise around 9% of EA’s port count and are increasingly common. The New York Power Authority’s EVolve NY network, for example, owns 56 sites that run on Electrify America’s system. Offering a reliable NACS-J3400 option will be critical to continuing those relationships as the industry shifts to the new connector type.

Next Up - The 20-stall site recently opened in Santa Barbara, CA, is next up for NACS handles, after which EA has 5 sites slated for this update on the East Coast. Additionally, 4 other CA sites will be fully converted to NACS-J3400 connectors at some point this summer. Read more about the locations and timing here: www.electrifyamerica.com/pilot-stations/

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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 - 418 L2 charging ports added to the Alternative Fuels Data Center this week, covering 25 states and 5 Canadian provinces.

Notable New L2 + AFDC Additions:

🟠 ChargePoint added 326 ports across the United States and Canada (78% of the week’s total), including a huge 66-port installation at Oxnard College in California. Another significant installation is found on the East Coast, with 13 ports added at the Home 2 Suites in Aiken, SC (hotel guests only). North of the border, 7 ports in Ottawa, ON, add to the capital’s destination charging.

◾ Blink Charging only added 13 ports at 6 US locations this week, including 4 ports at Raising Cane’s QSR locations in California. Those sites offer diners 2 ports at a solid 16.6kW, while the week’s largest Blink install adds 3 ports at City Hall in Perris, CA.

🔷 FLO added 12 ports across 5 locations, 2 in Ontario and 3 in British Columbia. Most are located at dealerships, but the familiar name of Green P in Toronto, ON, shows 4 more ports delivered by the city’s most prominent destination charging network.

🔷 14 more ports in neighboring Québec, as well, with Circuit électrique adding L2 ports at 5 locations in the province. 4 ports in the Little Burgundy neighborhood of Montréal, and 4 more in Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm, a smaller town further north in the province.

⭕ Red E energized 4 AC ports at 2 locations in partnership with Rockland Trust in Massachusetts. One site is in East Boston, not far from Logan Airport, with the other in Fairhaven. Both sites report power up to 19.2kW, for EVs that can accept that much.

🗽 ViaLynk continued to build up New York state’s destination charging options with 2 sites added. One brings 12 ports to an office building in Cheektowaga, near Buffalo, while the second, smaller location adds 4 ports to a municipal lot in the Village of Hamburg.

News - Walmart posted another outstanding week that didn’t quite make it into the AFDC listings, opening double-digit new sites that should slide in next week. An otherwise standard week, with the regulars posting one or two new locations, and IONNA picking up the pace as summer progresses.

Numbers - 246 DC charging ports at 43 charging locations were added to the AFDC, covering 17 states and 3 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:

📍 Walmart EV Charging continues to put pins on the map faster than it can upload them to the Alternative Fuels Data Center, jumping from 85 to 94 active locations since our last update. Triple digits for sites and quadruple for stall count are both milestones that the network should pass comfortably in Q3. Those 9 sites cover 7 states, including the network’s debut location in Minnesota, which arrives at Supercenter #2198 in Bloomington.

🪙 Rivian opened one of New York’s first NEVI sites that isn’t a part of the EVolve NY network, with a new 8-stall Adventure Network location in Latham, NY. Running against the automaker’s recent shift to NACS-only charging sites, this one has to deploy CCS1 to meet federal requirements and opts to use only that connector type at this station.

🔴 Tesla Charging energized 92 stalls at 5 of its own locations, covering as many states and adding the largest Supercharger in Florida in doing so. 48 stalls near Fort Lauderdale, FL, cover a lot of bases, providing a parking lot full of DCFC for nearby hotel guests, an easy on-off spot for EV drivers on I-95, and access to the airport, which is less than a half mile away.

⚪ As the intro hinted, fresh from hitting 50 US sites in our last edition (progress report here), Tesla’s Supercharger for Business program continues to energize locations for clients, both new and existing. It’s the former we’ll focus on this week, as Victron Energy brings two new SfB sites online in Texas. Cleburne and Midlothian both bring V3.5 stalls to Texas Best Smokehouse, which hopefully lives up to its name. Either way, you’ll be leaving with a full battery and a fuller belly if you linger at these locations. The wider Victron Group includes these restaurants at its travel centers, adding a new option for owned charging at these properties under SfB.

⚡July is shaping up to be a return to form for IONNA, with updates to another batch of former Circle K Charge locations and new Rechargeries opened in Placerville, CA, Tampa, FL, and Frisco, TX. All of the new locations are 10 stalls, compared to just 4 at the others, emphasizing the limited impact of the upgraded Circle K sites on the network’s overall stall count, for now.

🍁 Canadian activity was led by Petro Canada locations this week, with 4 sites showing up under the ChargePoint banner. This typically indicates rip/replace activity, switching out the old BTC Power slimline dispensers with ChargePoint’s more modern Express Plus system. No current photos from any of those sites, but 3 are in Ontario, and Boisbriand, QC, rounds out the pack.

🟢 Electrify America added 4 locations in as many states, the throughline for all of which is mixed-use retail properties. From the 10 stalls at the Shops at Jurupa Valley, CA, to 6 at Redstone Shopping Center in Stoneham, MA (which I accidentally visited on commissioning day, as you can see below), EA has its roots in retail and continues to find success at these locations. A slight twist on the theme is found in Florida, where the 10-stall site at the Target in Altamonte Springs delivers more of a big box store experience, aligning with the chain’s recent promise to bring more EV charging to its stores.

⭕ Red E opened a couple of valuable locations here in the Northeast, with 4 ports up to 320kW at a Valero in Fishkill, NY, the all-electric equivalent of a splash and dash before traversing the Hudson Valley. The network also added another charging center in Vermont (Thetford, this week, follows Hartford/White River Junction, opened at the start of the month).

🔷 FLO continued its L2 theme of the week into DCFC, with both fast-charging locations opened by the network located at auto dealerships. Both are single-stall deployments with relatively low power, so we’ll hope to see some non-dealership, FLO Ultra action next week to get some more compelling new locations on the map.

🟡 Shell Recharge energized another location in California, with 12 DCFC stalls and a handful of L2 ports available to visitors at the Oakley Shops at Laurel Fields.

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

🚧 More and more construction is underway at 500kW Supercharger sites, with full V4 soon to be an option for EV drivers in Natick, MA, Tillamook, OR, Chattanooga, TN, and Arlington, TX.

📝 In Tesla permitting, new Supercharger filings identified by MarcoRPi1 for Rialto, CA, Durham, NC, and my favorite grocery store, Wegman’s, in Burlington, MA. The latter just had its Volta L2 chargers ripped out before the transition to JOLT, so a full V4 Supercharger will be quite the upgrade.

⚪ Other activity on the Tesla Supercharger for Business side shows a massive SfB location coming to Austin, TX. This 48-stall monster (pictured below via MarcoRP1) would be the largest site yet under the program, more than double the capacity of Manolo Market in San Diego, CA. Texas and California love to compete in many areas, and now you can add SfB stall count to that list.

❓ Tesla dominates the pipeline section this week, as there are several fascinating sites. This 16-stall permit for Las Vegas, NV, is another of those, as the contractor Trout Electric has also opened Supercharger for Business sites. If this one falls under that program, it would become the first full V4/500kW SfB location identified (note that a couple of days later, EVIO Charging’s full plans for true V4 Superchargers were also added to this list).

🛒 The latest update on the Walmart EV Charging (WEVC) coming soon pipeline brings a significant jump in permits from the Arkansas eTraveler/Wattmart: 356 known locations across 35 states, with 236 in the permitting stage and 120 under construction. Of the latter, much of the recent permit action centers on California, and ABB A400 units in the ground at Neighborhood Market 2689 suggests that Fresno could be the network’s debut site in the Golden State.

🟦 In non-Tesla permitting, The EV Infrastructure Report found several of the Walmart permits mentioned above, while AlejandroEV66 unearthed a permit for a new IONNA Rechargery with specific accommodations for trailer-pulling EVs in Oak Park, IL.

🪙 On the NEVI side, construction is underway at a federally funded location in Green Bay, WI, with WEVI updating the Oneida Casino location’s status this week.

Is there an upcoming site in your area - or one that’s disappeared - 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 - Scaling NA operations, Swedish EV/AV freight company Einride will acquire Flipturn, a fleet charging systems provider based in New York.

Numbers - This is a $38.4 million all-stock deal. Integrating Flipturn's client portfolio will add more than 250 MW of charging capacity for Einride, which more than doubles the company's current energy under management.

Nuance - Flipturn's product and people will be integrated into the new combined organization, with the company’s founders advocating greater ability to support its team in building and scaling new features. For Einride, the move comes hot on the heels of a Nasdaq debut in June and reframes the Amazon deal, which we covered in edition 68, as a deliberate pre-IPO strategy.

Next Up - The acquisition is expected to close this month, pending final conditions and regulatory approvals. In a conflicted market, marked by more cautious investment in transportation electrification but also rising fuel costs for existing fleet vehicles, the deal positions Einride to scale in North America without overcommitting to what is still a nascent market for electric freight.

News - Absent any major promotions or price shifts this week, we’d like to draw your attention to a useful filter recently added to the DCFCtracker website: fast chargers mapped at various pricing tiers.

Numbers - DCFCtracker covers prices at approximately three-quarters of US fast charging locations, so most regions and networks are covered. More than one-third of the sites with pricing track at $0.49/kWh or less, while an encouraging 13% slide in under $0.40/kWh. This is where we can zero in on a DCFC deal, especially if you’re traveling this summer.

Nuance - The map above shows the regular DCFCtracker map you see every week in our Fast Forward section, toggled to show pricing rather than network and filtered down to show only locations priced at $0.40/kWh or less. Naturally, with its price cap currently set at $0.39/kWh, all of IONNA’s sites appear. But if IONNA isn’t yet in your area or on your route, this map view is a great way to find the cheapest fast charging options in a given area. Add minimum power and stall count filters with the menus above the map to fine-tune the right sites for your EV.

Next Up - Monthly pricing reports by network and overall shifts across the United States are brewing in the DCFCtracker reports section. Be sure to check in next weekend, as a new month arrives, to see all the action from July.

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:

Prominent charging deployment partner MN8 Energy acquires Greenbacker

Connecticut picks AmpUp to scale Adapt & Earn pilot statewide

L.A.’s Tesla Diner is the most utilized site on the Supercharger network

Schneider Electric enhances Charge Pro L2 solutions for commercial buyers

EVgo announces absorption of Stable Auto data engineering team

Grizzl-E Connect launches credits program for fleets + commercial properties

Ford taps GenerLink to deliver simpler home backup power w/ electric models

Atlas Public Policy releases NEVI update fact sheet

Oklahoma has opened its $30M round 2 NEVI solicitation (deadline: 8/25/26)

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

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