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Climate Week NYC was the talk of the town this week, and not just limited to events on the East Coast. Attendees flew in from across the continent, with electrification and EV charging on many agendas. In addition to last week’s news that it’s electric will serve the city’s curbs with 700 AC ports by 2030, fellow NYC-based charging startup Voltpost also confirmed more sites energized, which you’ll find in this week’s AC/DC section.

Meanwhile, it’s the West Coast that will initially benefit most from the long-awaited Tesla Semi, which began volume deliveries to customers this week. Simultaneously, a nationwide network of Megachargers is rolling out, starting along routes that emanate from the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach. A special mention as well to Alpitronic, where notable senior departures this week didn’t stop the hardware manufacturer from celebrating 2 million US sessions (up from 1M just 4 months ago!)

Here’s how EV infrastructure moved this week across the US and Canada ⤵️

News - EVgo fast-charging locations with a NACS-J3400 handle can now appear in the navigation and route planning of Tesla models across the US.

Numbers - The dedicated EVgo network (not including Pilot-Flying J sites) now has more than 4,000 ports at 900+ sites in 37 states, 46% of which are in California, where more than one million Teslas are registered. Currently, a little over 100 of EVgo’s locations offer NACS-J3400 handles, a number which could expand rapidly if Tesla drivers start to give the network a try.

Nuance - On its own, this news looks like a minor software development. In reality, it encapsulates the goal of every competitive charging operator in North America: drive greater near-term utilization by tapping into the Tesla market. Supercharger for Business (SfB) is one growing way for charging operators to tap into the navigation-driven traffic of Tesla drivers, but that means a significant hardware pivot for operators with an established network. And, as we’ve pointed out before, as quickly as the “Show Third-Party Charger Stations” option can be toggled on, it can just as easily be turned off.

Next Up - The largest question remains: will Tesla drivers show any meaningful interest in using fast-charging sites that aren’t owned and operated by Tesla? Some third-party SfB sites report immediate 5x utilization spikes, and EVgo will test that with its own Superchargers later this year.

But established operators would prefer not to rip and replace hundreds of existing locations, making inclusion in Tesla’s navigation a potentially lucrative lift. But only if they can offer a compelling alternative to the seamless Supercharger experience which, as we see next, offers unparalleled coverage ⤵️

📊 Sunday Stat: — 50% of the 80,000+ fast-charging stalls in the United States are Tesla Superchargers, but who can access those stalls and who owns them is quietly shifting. For example, 1% of Tesla’s stalls in the US are now owned by a third party through the Supercharger for Business program.

Around one-quarter of stalls remain Tesla-only, according to John Baker/superchargeinfo, some of which comes down to incompatible V2 and Urban Superchargers, which make up 18.4% of Tesla’s network across the US. That leaves 6.6% that are V3 or above, so presumably capable of full access for non-Tesla models, but which may be in a location that sees high utilization, such as Big Bear Lake, CA, or Las Vegas, NV.

With several rival CPOs (EVgo, Francis Energy, Universal EV) and EV-friendly fueling retailers (Love’s, Victron, Wawa) now signed up for SfB, expect to see that 1% third-party ownership percentage grow quickly next year.

News - Love’s won 4 of 35 newly awarded NEVI locations in Colorado, adding to a steadily growing list of DCFC sites owned by the travel stop brand.

Numbers - 101 fast-charging ports on the ChargePoint platform, at 26 locations in 9 states. Other third-party sites on networks, including Electrify America and Francis Energy, are hosted by Love’s, but these are the ones where Love’s owns the experience and/or sets the pricing.

Nuance - The wrinkle in this set of awards is that all of these locations (Alamosa, Bennett, Brush, and Poncha Springs) are also on a list of third-party-owned Supercharger sites added by Tesla this week. It appears that all four will deploy the latest V4 Supercharger system, delivering up to 500kW for Love’s EV customers and potentially indicating a pivot away from the ChargePoint Express Plus system used at most Love’s locations to date.

Next Up - Love’s deployments are typically in lockstep with state or federal funding programs, so we know more than 100 sites at Love’s locations in 19 states are planned. These are in various stages of deployment, from conditionally awarded to construction underway at sites like Garden City, KS, and several locations in Texas.

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News - In addition to the familiar names that appear in every edition, an honorable mention goes to Voltpost this week for powering Climate Week NYC with free juice at Brooklyn Navy Yard, and expanding to more towns across upstate New York. Back in the regular AFDC listings, it’s business as usual, with ChargePoint dominating new L2 site additions in the US, while a trio of charging operators carry the load up in Canada.

Numbers: 410 L2 charging ports were added to the Alternative Fuels Data Center this week, covering 23 states and 5 Canadian provinces/territories.

Notable New L2 + AFDC Additions:

🔴 Tesla provided its bi-weekly Wall Connector for Business update, with 500 ports at 90 sites over the past two weeks. These cover 27 states and one Canadian province, with a Quality Inn in Nanaimo, BC, getting two ports. The remainder are boosted by matching 40-port installations at California American Water HQ in West Sacramento, CA, and Park Wilshire HOA in Los Angeles, CA, plus hotel-located additions at the Towneplace Suites in Daytona Beach, FL (6 ports) and Everhome Suites in Stockbridge, GA (6 ports).

🟠 ChargePoint added 240 ports across 74 locations, including a 12-port site in Scottsdale, AZ, and an 11-port site in Neptune City, NJ. 4 ports in Vacaville, CA, also catch the eye, primarily because the site host is Dutch Bros. Coffee.

⚡ NOODOE added 38 ports at 5 sites, led by a 19-port location in Delano, CA.

🗽 ViaLynk added 21 ports at 4 sites, led by a 15-port location in East Brunswick, NJ. 2 ports at the Waterhawke Lake Club in Rohnert Park, CA, also take the network’s AC activity to the other side of the country.

🔌 EV+ Charging shared details of a fully-sheltered row of L2 ports installed in Buda, TX, at the Ryze at Sunfield residential community. Kudos on the canopy!

🔵 FLO deployed 25 ports at 6 sites, with the largest adding two 8-port locations. One brings the first charging of any kind to Saint-Donat, QC, as far as we can tell on PlugShare, and the other adds to the many destination charging options in Guelph, ON, at the South End Community Center.

⚫ Blink Charging added 17 ports at 4 sites, including 9 stalls at an apartment complex in Miami, FL, and 2 at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Elgin, IL.

⭕ Red E added 16 ports across 4 sites in New Jersey and Massachusetts. All are 4 stalls, but the deployment at skating arenas in Mass towns (Brockton and Worcester) best signals the changing of seasons.

🍁 ChargeLab added 10 ports at 4 sites, led by 6 stalls at a corrections center in Aberdeen, WA.

🔷 Circuit électrique added 2 ports at a single site this week. The chargers are in Laval, QC, within walking distance of Parc Masson.

🏁 Rounding out this week's L2 activity: EVOKE added 8 ports at a parking lot in Brooklyn, NY; OpConnect added 6 ports at Southern Oregon University; ChargeSmart EV added 6 ports at 2 sites in its home state of New York; EV Connect added 5 ports at 3 sites; EVSTART added 4 ports at 2 Québec sites; and Flipturn added 2 ports in Alpharetta, GA.

News - A productive week for DCFC across the US and Canada, despite the notable absence of major names like bp pulse, Circuit électrique, and Walmart EV Charging. IONNA’s openings included full-size Rechargeries, as well as Circle K locations that take its upgrade program past the 50% mark, while BC Hydro and Mercedes-Benz HPC are both in action north of the border.

Numbers - 359 DC charging ports at 58 charging locations were added to the AFDC, covering 24 states and 2 Canadian provinces.

Check out DCFCtracker.com to see a map of the latest AFDC additions in the US, which you can also filter by the past week, month, or quarter.

Notable New Locations + AFDC Additions:

🟠 IONNA kept a 12-week activation streak alive by energizing 32 ports at 4 Rechargery sites in as many states. The most significant entries bring matching 12-stall locations to Renton, WA, and Tempe, AZ. A couple of Rechargery @ Circle K sites, covered in the next section, round out another productive week.

✨ Pilot-Flying J added 12 ports at 2 Californian travel centers in Palmdale and Salinas. Both are 6-stall locations, reflecting the gradual shift to larger sites that most nationwide charging operators must now factor into their site plans.

🌊 A welcome return to activations for BC Hydro, which added 20 ports at 3 British Columbia sites this week. 8 stalls at a retail store in Kamloops make up the largest site, with 6 each at Abbotsford International Airport and Victoria’s Archie Browning Sports Centre. Only Abbotsford features ABB’s 400kW units.

🔴 Tesla Charging added 159 ports at 15 of its own locations across 10 US states and British Columbia, the largest of which is a 31-stall effort at Bixby Village Plaza in Long Beach, CA. Special mention also to Lander, WY, which brings the state’s first fast-charging location above 350kW thanks to the full V4/500kW Supercharger brought online this week.

⚪ On the Supercharger for Business side, partner EVIO added an 8-stall site at Indian Rock Shopping Center in Suffern, NY. This is the company’s second location, with a promising 25 more planned across the country.

✨ Mercedes-Benz High Power Charging (MB-HPC) added a 6-stall site in Squamish, BC, expanding the network's presence in Canada to 8 sites, all in British Columbia so far.

🔵 EVgo listed 56 ports at 11 locations, although some appear to be existing locations that may have been updated in some way, such as the addition of NACS handles. That said, the 12 stalls at a retail plaza in Corona, CA, are definitely new to the SoCal charging landscape.

🟠 ChargePoint added 25 ports across 10 locations, including a welcome Canadian entry in Hebbville, NS, and a 10-stall municipal fleet site for NYC Park EVs in Woodhaven, NY (Queens). The latter is reserved for fleet use overnight, but open to the public for 60-minute charging sessions from 7AM-9PM.

🟢 Electrify America energized 12 ports at a single site, with another Target store on the company’s network, this time in Omaha, NE.

⚡ ViaLynk added 8 ports at 2 sites, with a 6-stall location in College Place, WA, and another 2 stalls on the other side of the country, in Burlington, VT.

🏁 Rounding out the week: Red E added 10 ports at 3 sites from Massachusetts and Michigan, to way out west in Arizona; Blink Charging added a single 4-stall site at a library in Elgin, IL; EVRange had 3 ports at 2 Los Angeles-area municipal facilities; EV Connect added 2 ports at a Chevrolet dealership in Yorkville, NY; and FLO added 2 ports at an Alabama Power site in Reform, AL.

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

⭕ IONNA upgraded just 2 sites to Rechargery @ Circle K locations this week, but that was enough to put it past the halfway point to finishing the initial 85 former Circle K Charge locations. A slight wrinkle in the expectation that the in-house CK network will slowly disappear from existence, however, as new NEVI sites are now underway in Minnesota, and appear to be installing AUTEL hardware with Circle K branding. Pre-existing contractual requirements being fulfilled, or a potential path back for Circle K Charge? Stranger things have happened.

🔧 Tesla opened an expanded Supercharger in Holbrook, AZ, which is an early site that once hosted 4 V1 posts. A variety of activity is expected here, as the location now has 12 stalls mixing V2/V3 posts and is expected to get V4 posts via NEVI funds in the next couple of months. We’ll keep an eye on it.

🍏 One that slid through our net over the summer is the upgrade of a longstanding Applegreen Fast Charge site - in fact, the network’s only site - here in my home state of Massachusetts. The Sturbridge Service Plaza previously had two ChargePoint CPE250s, but has now more than doubled the power per stall with BTC Power hardware capable of up to 150kW.

✅ Four locations on Electrify America’s NACS pilot program list (2 sites in Pennsylvania and 2 in New Jersey) will still become hybrid NACS/CCS1 locations, but the timeline has been adjusted from this summer to “Fall 2026”.

🛠️ On the upgrade side, the following EA locations are currently offline (or will be imminently), while legacy hardware is replaced with new BTC Power dispensers: Anaheim, CA | San Mateo, CA | Lake Zurich, IL | Hauppauge, NY | Bayshore, NY | Lovelock, NV | Willow Grove, PA. If anyone from EA reads these pages, it would be great to see a pinned note in PlugShare to give drivers a heads-up that sites like these will be temporarily unavailable.

⚪ We start with activity on the Tesla Supercharger for Business side this week, thanks to a massive SfB location drop spotted by MarcoRP. It clearly shows too many third-party sites to link here, but the overlap with NEVI-awarded sites for Love’s Travel Stops in Colorado and Universal EV Chargers in multiple states points to SfB’s growing appeal to fueling retailers and existing CPOs.

📝 In Tesla permitting, MarcoRP shared new Supercharger filings for Doraville, GA, Roseburg, OR, and Pleasant Grove, UT. A new Megacharger was also found in permitting applications for Auburn, WA.

🍁 Lakeland EV Charging shared that a DC fast-charging location with hardware capable of up to 470kW will be installed on Hwy 60 near Algonquin Park, ON, later this year.

🔶 Rivian has new Adventure Network locations planned for Palisades, CA, and Corsicana, TX, based on this week’s updates from RANtracker on X.

🚧 Construction is underway at new Supercharger sites in the following locations, according to supercharge.info: Binghamton, NY | Carbondale, CO | Pooler, GA | Montcerf-Lytton, QC | Newport, ME | Spanish Fort, AL.

🪙 On the NEVI side, construction is almost complete at the aforementioned site in Moorhead, MN, where AUTEL hardware will be activated under the Circle K Charge brand. And the ever-eagle-eyed Walter at tNAC spotted construction activity at what should be North Carolina’s first NEVI location, the Pilot Travel Center in Candor, pictured below.

🟦 ZEF Energy is the latest charging operator to get Alpitronic involved in its hardware mix. Wisconsin sites in Drummond and Washburn each have a solo HYC400 in the ground, both of which could be online by the time you read this.

🚛 One of the first Megacharger sites on the East Coast is sliding into a site in Charlotte, NC, according to an update from Branden Flasch.

🛒 Walmart EV Charging has 336 sites in the pipeline across the US, with 130 sites currently under construction, based on numbers from Wattmart, and at least 236 in earlier development stages, according to permits and media sources.

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News: Tesla opened its first heavy-duty electric truck factory this week in Sparks, NV, with the capacity to build up to tens of thousands of Tesla Semis a year. With charging HDEVs on everyone’s mind, the company also highlighted more Megachargers in the pipeline.

Numbers: Up to 50,000 Tesla Semis could be produced by the 1.8M sq-ft facility at full volume, which means a megawatt charging network must roll out in lockstep with production. The company’s first Megachargers are already online in California, and 30 more locations with 200+ stalls are expected by the end of 2026.

Nuance: Unlike the Supercharger network, which Tesla had to build out itself to support an unproven passenger vehicle, the company will have help deploying a charging network for the Tesla Semi. Semi Charging for Business sells the hardware directly to third-party owners, including charging hubs near major ports, truck stop operators, and private destination depots, which can purchase lower-power Basechargers for overnight truck charging.

Next Up: The Megacharger ramp is likely to happen a lot faster than many expect, not least because it can be purchased outright for private use, which will speed up the deployment process in many locations. We already see this stretching to commercial depots in British Columbia, and EV-friendly states cover the 1,500 miles down the West Coast to SoCal. If there’s to be a bottleneck for the rapid rollout of Tesla’s heavy-duty truck fleet, it won’t be the charging infrastructure.

Here’s a selection of news items we couldn’t squeeze into other sections, and interesting deeper reads we think you’ll want to know about:

Newsom signs legislation to speed California’s charger deployment

BC trucking firm to install Canada’s first Tesla Megachargers for Semi

Kempower strikes charger deal with two major Canadian port terminals

US being left behind as Chinese EV charging falls below 5-minute sessions

GM offers SmartCharge bundle to some CA customers (with utility ties)

Electric Son’s SfB site pairs kilowatts with on-site, all-electric coffee truck

Blink Charging brings L2 back to CCSF after Shell vanishes former Volta site

Wyoming shared its first NEVI RFP (yes, really), which is open now thru 11/18/26

Colorado will open another DCFC Plazas Program funding round on 9/28/26

Virginia’s phase 2 NEVI RFP closes early this week 9/28, awards due 12/7/26

Minnesota’s round 3a NEVI RFP is open for another month (deadline: 11/2/26)

Pennsylvania promotes community EV charging with Corridor Connections NOFO windows across the state. $11M for central PA is currently open.

Tennessee opens TDEC rebate program for MFD level 2 charging projects

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

Efficiency Maine seeks qualified bidders for L2 charging (up to $120K per site)

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

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Steve / Plug & Play EV

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