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Despite the broadly vibrant fast-charging scene that we unpack every week, 2026 has so far failed to match the remarkable pace of deployment we saw last year. Even so, this week marked notable stall count milestones for the established charging operators, with ChargePoint (#3) reaching 5,000 and Electrify America (#2) passing 6,000, when partner site stalls are included.

The sobering number for these networks, and every other CPO? Tesla passed 40,000 stalls a couple of weeks ago and saw record Q3 usage. The former makes the Supercharger network 32% larger than the next 10 competitor networks combined. Although we’ve moved beyond coverage in favor of utilization and customer satisfaction, the fact remains that when US EV drivers need to charge, the most likely option they’ll encounter is a Supercharger.

Thus nuked with numbers, here’s how EV infrastructure shifted this week across the US and Canada ⤵️

News - As the third quarter of the year came to a close this week, early numbers indicate that site activations failed to match the frenetic opening rate of 2025, leaving little chance of an improvement on last year’s numbers for 2026 as a whole.

Numbers - By site count, Q326 delivered just under 600 locations, according to DCFCtracker.com, which represents a YOY decline of 25%, compared to the 792 locations reported by the platform for Q325. But in keeping with the greater capabilities of EVs, both power and capacity are up. Sites with 400kW or more rose from just 6% of openings in Q325 to 29% in Q326, with IONNA and Walmart EV Charging responsible for 64% of the 400kW+ locations opened. Average stalls per site of those opened in Q326 hit 6.5, up from 5.9 in Q325.

Nuance - A further caveat to the already underwhelming numbers is that two-thirds of IONNA’s Q326 sites are new to the network, but not the wider US charging landscape. The locations already existed as Circle K Charge sites, which have now been removed from listings, leaving the locations as upgrades, rather than net-new sites for EV drivers. Shorn of Rechargeries @ Circle K, IONNA opened 22 new locations from July to September, averaging just below 2 truly new site activations per week.

Next Up - Although the fourth quarter could yet deliver some surprises, we would need to see significant upticks from all of the major charging operators, plus some of the new faces, to make up the YOY gap that has already developed. More than 1,000 new fast-charging sites would need to open between now and the New Year just to match 2025’s record-setting DCFC deployment.

📊 Sunday Stat: Pennsylvania is responsible for 21% of NEVI’s fast-charging activations so far, with more than 50 of the 250+ sites located in the Keystone State. The program has transformed charging options along key routes such as I-80 and the PA Turnpike, as the focus now turns from corridor to community charging awards.

The NEVI open list passed 250 sites energized at the tail end of September, with Jule’s first site in Vermont and a Tesla Supercharger in Wichita Falls, TX, putting the embattled program past the milestone. 300+ sites open by the end of the year appears to be a possibility, if weather and utilities cooperate.

News - EVgo released more details about its next-generation charger, developed in-house with the help of Delta Electronics, including shared power distribution and a peak to compete with rival systems set to debut in 2027.

Numbers - 750kW peak power shared across multiple stalls at the site level (current hardware only shares power at the dispenser level, splitting two stalls). The EVgo-owned location count is now just two sites away from 900, while the addition of Pilot-Flying J-owned locations that are operated under EVgo eXtend brings the wider network to 1,219 sites with 5,380 stalls.

Nuance - 750kW is an impressive headline number, but the important factor here is how many stalls will share that peak power. Spread across 4 stalls, the even split of 187.5kW will still deliver a positive charge session for most current models, but could struggle as more new EVs capable of accepting higher power come to market. Spread across any more than that, busy EVgo locations could fail to meet the expectations of most modern EV drivers.

Next Up - The new 750kW system will debut in 2027, which is a slight slip from the anticipated launch before the end of this year. EVgo Superchargers on Tesla’s white-label SfB program are still expected in Q426, although this is a tight turnaround, given that no sites have yet been identified in permitting.

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News - ChargePoint again accounted for more than 40% of new L2 ports, with 186 of the 420 added, though the week’s largest individual sites came from NOODOE and ViaLynk. Canada added L2 ports across a variety of sites in Alberta, Ontario, and Québec. Circuit électrique is notably absent this week.

Numbers: 420 L2 charging ports were added to the Alternative Fuels Data Center this week, covering 25 states and 3 Canadian provinces/territories.

Notable New L2 + AFDC Additions:

🟠 ChargePoint added 186 ports across 59 locations, topped by a 23-port school district site in Santa Monica, CA, and a 12-port deployment at Otay Ranch in Chula Vista, CA, which is also home to a number of former Volta destination chargers, now operated by JOLT.

🅿️ ViaLynk added 43 ports at 3 sites, the largest of which is a 27-port SP Plus parking garage installation in Chicago, IL. This comes alongside 12 ports at Manetto Hill Shopping Center in the network’s home state, in Plainview, NY.

⚡ NOODOE added 28 ports at a single development site in Tampa, FL, serving visitors to the Harrison Residences/Aureate Development, a mixed-use property in the city’s Encore district.

🔌 EV Gateway added 21 ports at 2 sites, including a 19-port location at Rize Federal Credit Union in Irwindale, CA, and what appears to be an upgraded location at the Hampton Inn Midtown in Omaha, NE.

🔵 FLO added 35 ports at 9 sites, with matching 8-port locations at a City of Ottawa visitor lot and a Quality Inn & Suites in Val-d’Or, QC.

🟢 ChargeSmart EV added 14 ports at 3 sites in New York and Massachusetts, with 8 at a Spark by Hilton in Liverpool, NY, which looks like a large rip-and-replace of the single ChargePoint post we once used there four years ago.

⚫ Blink Charging added 16 ports at 6 sites, mostly 2-port apartment and hotel installs plus 4-port locations in Amherst, NY, and Shoreline, WA.

⭕ Red E added 26 ports at 5 sites in New York and Massachusetts, including a 12-port site at the Cedar Hill apartment complex in Hilton, NY, plus school and library installs in Charlemont and Northampton, MA.

🍁 ChargeLab added 21 ports at 4 sites, starting with 7 at the Valor Acres parking garage in Brecksville, OH, and 6 at The Lofts at River Creek in Lebanon, OH, plus a Canadian entry at Magna Golf Club in Aurora, ON.

🏁 Rounding out this week's L2 activity: EV Connect added 16 ports at 6 sites, including 6 at a parking facility in Brooklyn, NY; EVOKE added 8 ports for employees at a hospital in Vineland, NJ; ZEF Energy added 4 ports at 2 sites in Tampa, FL, and Washburn, WI, the latter (pictured above) featuring ZEF’s first HYC400; and SynergEV added 2 ports at Perinton Park in Fairport, NY.

News - Tesla led the week as usual, with a triple-digit port count across the continent, but there were also some standouts away from the Superchargers. For example, bp pulse’s latest Gigahub in Texas and a bridge site for Rivian in the Pacific Northwest are notable additions. IONNA openings blended Circle K upgrades with brand new Rechargeries, while Canada added a variety of sites from several operators. Walmart EV Charging slid in a site that didn’t quite make the AFDC upload, but both MB-HPC and BC Hydro took a break this week.

Numbers - 417 DC charging ports at 64 charging locations were added to the AFDC, covering 27 states and 3 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:

✈️ bp pulse’s Gigahub in Houston, TX, brings 22 ports online (6 NACS-J3400 / 16 CCS1) under a full canopy next to IAH Intercontinental Airport.

🔴 Tesla Charging added 143 ports at 11 of its own locations across 6 US states and Québec, led by matching 24-stall sites at Almarida Place in Campbell, CA, and Rendez-Vous Ryan in Mont-Tremblant, QC. The latter hosts a specially wrapped post to mark Tesla’s 3,000th stall in the country. Special mention also to Ocean City, MD, and Parksley, VA, which both received full 500kW Superchargers that shift the DCFC landscape on the underserved DelMarVa peninsula.

✨ Feel the fours with Pilot-Flying J this week, as the company opened sites at 4 travel centers in 4 states (IL, LA, NV, and VA), all with 4-stall layouts. We’ll opt for Rayville, LA, as the spotlight site, because Louisiana fast charging needs all the help it can get.

🔋 Battery-backed NEVI charging for Vermont, as Jule made its debut in the Green Mountain State with 4 ports at Starfire Bakery in Wilmington.

🛒 Although it didn’t quite make the AFDC listings in time for the week’s map, Walmart EV Charging energized its first location in several weeks at Supercenter 1578 in Roswell, GA. It’s worthy of an early mention because this is WEVC’s largest site to date, with 8 x ABB A400 dispensers serving a total of 16 stalls.

🟠 IONNA energized 42 ports at 8 sites, extending its activation streak to 13 weeks. Six of those were Rechargery @ Circle K upgrades, covered in the Level Up section, while the full-size Rechargeries bring 10 stalls to Laguna Hills, CA, and 8 to Roseville, MN.

⚪ On the Supercharger for Business side, Francis Energy added a 4-stall site at Colton’s Steak House & Grill in Enid, OK. This location puts the network one shy of 25 SfB locations since upgrades started at the tail end of 2025.

🔵 EVgo added 30 ports at 3 sites, the largest of which is a 12-stall location at The Village at Eagle Glen in Corona, CA. The 10 stalls at Kensington Valley Outlets in Howell, MI, and 8 in Reno, NV, complete this week’s trio.

🔶 Rivian Adventure Network entered the Pacific Northwest’s High Desert region with a 12-stall site activated in Ritzville, WA. This site helps the network bridge a gap on I-90 between Ellensburg and Spokane.

🔷 Circuit électrique failed to register AC sites this week but did add on the DC side, with 14 ports at 4 Québec sites. These include a relatively remote 4-stall site in Waswanipi and another more metro-focused location in Saguenay.

🟢 Electrify America energized 24 ports across two Tennessee sites, with matching 12-stall locations at Bellevue Place in Nashville and a Target in Knoxville.

⚡ ViaLynk added 38 ports at 4 sites, the largest of which is an 18-stall location at College Square in Stockton, CA, alongside a 10-stall Quick Quack car wash in Santa Cruz and two smaller Illinois sites in Romeoville (6) & Beach Park (4).

⭕ Red E added 10 ports at 2 sites, including an 8-stall Kroger in Hazel Park, MI, and a Casey’s in Martinsville, IN.

🟠 ChargePoint added 13 ports across 7 sites, the biggest among them a 4-port RechargeCo location in Laval, QC. The rest are smaller installs with just a port or two, many of which add to the US dealership charging landscape.

🏁 Rounding out the week: EV Connect added 17 ports at 4 sites, including 5 at Honolulu International Airport; PlugEV (Vancouver, BC), Shell Recharge (Oakville, ON), and ChargeLab (Québec City, QC) each added 4 ports in Canada, alongside FLO’s 4 ports at 3 sites in Ontario and Michigan; SynergEV added 4 ports at 2 Alabama sites; ZEF Energy’s Washburn, WI location, previewed last week, is now officially online.

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

⭕ IONNA upgraded 6 sites to Rechargery @ Circle K locations this week, moving the project within a week or two of being two-thirds complete at that pace. The locations are heavily clustered around the Southeast (the Carolinas and Florida) this week, with a couple of outlier sites in Phoenix, AZ, and Cherry Valley, IL.

🔧 Tesla opened an expanded Supercharger in Bronx, NY. The site originally had only Urban Superchargers, which were capped at 72kW and have now been removed. The replacements are 8 x 250kW posts, with another 16 stalls expected once the expansion is complete.

🚧 On the upgrade side, the following EA locations are currently offline (or will be imminently), to allow for aging hardware to be replaced by new BTC Power dispensers: Anaheim, CA | San Mateo, CA | Lake Zurich, IL | Hauppauge, NY | Bayshore, NY | Lovelock, NV | Willow Grove, PA.

📝 In Tesla permitting, MarcoRP shared new Supercharger filings for Madison, AL, Orlando, FL, and Charleston, SC.

🔵 The EV Infrastructure Report found a new 8-stall site permitted for EVgo in Tampa, FL, along with another IONNA Rechargery planned for a Wawa in Pembroke Pines, FL.

⚪ Looking at the Supercharger for Business pipeline, Optimus Energy is the latest charging operator to show interest in Tesla’s system, with a site planned for Columbus, GA. Others catching our eye are a site for Universal EV in Coraopolis, PA, which is a $384,880 NEVI award for the company, and a site now under construction for Synergy in Tampa, FL, which will reportedly feature full V4 Superchargers and a dog park.

🚧 Construction is underway at new Supercharger sites in the following locations, according to supercharge.info: Danbury, CT | Norcross, GA | Concord, NH | Deschambault, QC | Montreal, QC | Richardson, TX.

🚛 The number of Megacharger sites under construction is expected to ramp quickly this quarter, with the current list including: Conley, GA (8 stalls), Ellabell, GA (6 stalls), Charlotte, NC (2 stalls), North Las Vegas, NV (6 stalls), San Antonio, TX (8 stalls), La Porte, TX (6 stalls), Saginaw, TX (8 stalls), Mesquite, TX (8 stalls). Check out a full tracking map from MarcoRP here.

🛒 Walmart EV Charging has 363 sites in the pipeline across the US, with 132 sites currently under construction, based on numbers from Wattmart, and at least 231 in earlier development stages, according to permits and media sources. Of the many locations to watch, the network’s second site in Alabama could soon be energized in Hoover.

🪙 On the NEVI side, construction is underway at a second North Carolina NEVI site at the Pilot Travel Center in Warsaw. Another P-FJ underway in Candor now competes to be the first NEVI site open in NC. And don’t miss updates from Dan the EV Man on Red E and Francis Energy, both of which feature NEVI developments from two prominent operators in the program.

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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:

Canada’s Hypercharge acquires Texas-based REVS Charging LLC

City of Boston sues Trump admin for $20M funding cut including EV charging

Tesla introduces emergency drive-away while charging feature

IONNA launches Driver’s Dashboard feature for app-free charge monitoring

Québec party policy on EV strategy varies during election season

More than two years after awards, Oregon still has no NEVI stations online

Colorado just opened another DCFC Plazas Program funding round

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

Wyoming’s first NEVI RFP is open now through to 11/18/26

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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