Good day, fellow EV Booster ⚡🚀

Following a week in which the latest EV launch did exactly that, flipping and returning to land as if it had just come out of orbit, work on the ground to add regular old charging hardware might seem a little mundane.

But beyond showcase events, that’s what slowly moves adoption forward as the US and Canada gradually get their EV-buying groove back. Each new charging site could convince a potential EV owner that they can drive electric, and every new network milestone means more fast-charging competition to quell whatever lingering range anxiety remains.

So, albeit without the oohs of an upside-down Roadster, or the aahs as it deploys thrusters to glide back to the ground, here's how EV infrastructure developed across the US & Canada this week ⤵️

News - Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) confirmed a massive batch of new DCFC sites funded by the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, which effectively spends most of the state’s remaining budget under the embattled federal program.

Numbers - $226 million in federal funds for 321 fast-charging locations, 264 of which are in metro areas and 57 in county seats, according to TxDOT. 22 stations awarded in Phase 1 are already open, which puts Texas in the pack competing for second place, as program leader Pennsylvania continues to pull away, with more than 50 NEVI sites open.

Nuance - Texas started with the most NEVI funding of any state ($407.8 million), and moved relatively quickly to award sites by the end of 2023, followed by openings in 2024. Unfortunately, progress was significantly stalled by the FHWA pause in February 2025, after which $84.6 million was clawed back from Texas through rescission. It’s unclear how much this weighed on the state to move through its latest funding round, but the size and scope coming so soon after losing 21% of its NEVI money feels like more than a coincidence.

Next Up - Five more Phase 1 sites are expected to open by the end of 2026, followed by another 30 in 2027. Given current turnaround times of more than a year from award to energized site, it seems unlikely we’ll see any of these Phase 2 locations until 2028 at the earliest. Keep an eye on our NEVI tracking page for the latest on Texas and the wider program’s progress.

📊 Sunday Stat: Just five states made up 42% of US fast charger deployments in Q3 2026, with CA, TX, IL, FL, and NY getting the lion’s share of third-quarter activation, based on Paren’s latest report.

Higher EV adoption and the presence of more lucrative metro areas are the driving factors in deployment skewing so heavily to these states. With utilization the primary focus of most charging providers in 2026, 90% of sites added in Q3 2026 are located in urban areas. Rural areas accounted for just 10% of sites.

News - IONNA passed another milestone this week, reaching 200 Rechargeries just 7 months after entering triple digits earlier in spring.

Numbers - 1,666 stalls across 202 Rechargeries in 30 states, as the week came to a close. 55 of these are upgrades of existing Circle K sites, which account for 27% of the network. The next biggest deployment partner is Wawa, with 30 IONNA sites (15%), all of which are new DCFC locations. For more fast stats on the network at exactly 200 sites, check out our LinkedIn post on the milestone here.

Nuance - Although it’s an impressive milestone and a welcome acceleration of the IONNA project, the current network map represents only a fraction of the brand’s promise to EV drivers. The more basic sites and smaller stall count at partner properties like Circle K feels like IONNA building out a presence from which it can launch truly exceptional experiences for EV drivers, such as the ground-up Rechargeries we see in Garner, NC, and Reynoldsburg, OH, or the first Beacon flagship that we’ll see next month.

Next Up - A busy November ahead for IONNA, with the aforementioned Beacon opening preceded by the Ampin’ Up America road trip series. Expect various promotions in the run-up to that, as well as the completion of Circle K retrofits in Q4 and, quite possibly, another end-of-year surge in activations to close out 2026 on a high.

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News - L2 additions eased from last week's 576 ports, though a few sites do much of the heavy lifting in this edition. ViaLynk's 154-port installation at Sky Three Residences in Brooklyn, for example, accounts for roughly one-third of the total. ChargePoint falls to a lower percentage of the overall total, while still maintaining a steady cadence of new ports, while Alberta's EVSTART added a 27-port site in Calgary.

Numbers - 477 L2 charging ports were added to the Alternative Fuels Data Center this week, covering 24 states and 4 Canadian provinces.

Notable New L2 + AFDC Additions:

🛫 Not a location that made this week’s AFDC listings, but 120 new ports at Montréal Metropolitan Airport are still worthy of note. Another 48 Wallbox Pulsar Pro L2 units are slated for install, which will be welcome at an airport capable of serving up to 4 million air travelers a year, with approximately 2,600 parking spaces for those passengers and airport employees.

🟠 ChargePoint added 183 ports across 57 locations, the largest cluster (43 ports) being a set of garages along Park Drive here in Boston, MA, which also features fast chargers from the same CPO. Elsewhere, 16 ports spread across apartment buildings in Solana Beach, CA, and 10 each in Traverse City, MI, and Los Angeles, CA, join a handful of Canadian entries to round out this week’s ChargePoint set.

🅿️ ViaLynk added 172 ports at 6 locations, but 154 of them sit at the Sky Three Residences in Brooklyn, NY. The rest include 6 ports at Pasadena Elementary School in Plainview, NY, and 12 across several Aspen Ridge apartment buildings in Aurora, CO.

⚡ EVKON provided a look behind the planning that goes into AC charging installations, featuring 11 L2 stalls at the Oak Hill Apartments in Pittsburgh, PA (pictured below). With a neighboring University of Pittsburgh research center storing frozen biological samples, this involved getting all parties operating in lockstep to keep the required power outage to a minimum.

⚫ Blink Charging added 18 ports at 6 sites, topped by 6 ports at the Loews Royal Pacific Resort in Orlando, FL, and 4 at a Lego facility in Windsor Locks, CT.

⭕ Red E added 4 ports at Trinity Church in Shelburne Falls, MA. Great place to linger if you’re traveling the Mohawk Trail for autumnal leaf peeping in an EV.

🔵 FLO added 13 ports at 6 sites, mostly in Canada. These include 4 at Boyce-Gyro Beach in Kelowna, BC, 3 at a residential complex in Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm, QC, a parkade in Canmore, AB, and a Québec City entry, while US additions landed in South Bend, IN, and Los Angeles, CA.

🍁 ChargeLab added 13 ports at 5 sites, including two 4-port locations in Nisku, AB, alongside smaller US entries in Stockton, CA, Golden, CO, and Pittsburgh, PA.

🏁 Rounding out this week's L2 activity: EVSTART added 27 ports at a single site on Cayley Rd SE in Calgary, AB; INTERTIE added 14 ports at 3 California sites, including 9 at Bel Marin Keys; Lakeland EV Charging added 10 ports at 5 Ontario sites, from Parry Sound and Bracebridge to Penetanguishene and Washago; EVOKE added 9 ports, 8 of them in Folsom, CA, where the listing shows as temporarily unavailable; EV Connect added 6 ports in Placentia, CA, and Cary, NC; SynergEV added 4 ports at the Perinton Community Center in Fairport, NY; and a non-networked YMCA in Louisville, KY, added 4 ports.

News - Another light period for fast charger activations, with port counts slipping for a second straight week. Tesla led as usual, and IONNA celebrated its 200-site milestone with a mix of new Rechargery Relays and Circle K upgrades. North of the border, Québec’s Circuit électrique supplied most of Canada’s additions, and Lakeland EV Charging also delivered several new sites in Ontario.

Numbers - 190 DC charging ports at 40 charging locations were added to the AFDC, covering 14 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:

🔴 Tesla Charging added 52 ports at 6 of its own locations across 4 US states, with no Canadian entries this week. The largest is a 12-stall Winn-Dixie in Key West, FL, followed by 8-stall sites at Gila Valley Plaza in Thatcher, AZ, Target stores in Glendale, CO, and Port Charlotte, FL, and Wawa locations in St. Petersburg, FL, and Manchester, TN. In a sign of the hardware transition gathering momentum, half of Tesla’s locations this week are full V4 Superchargers, capable of delivering up to 500kW. Expect this to flip to mostly full V4 activations as we move into 2027 and approach the first anniversary of Giga NY in Buffalo ending production of V3 power cabinets.

🟠 IONNA energized 32 ports at 6 sites, extending its activation streak to 15 weeks. Completely new Rechargery Relays opened in Dallas, TX (8 stalls), Kent, WA (6), and University Place, WA (6), while the other three were smaller Circle K site upgrades. The latter Washington State location is flagged by the network as the 200th site to open, so it gets two weeks of $0.20/kWh promotional pricing. If you’re in the area, go get ya some inexpensive juice.

🍁 After previews in recent editions, Lakeland EV Charging energized 3 new sites in Ontario. Locals welcomed two high-power stalls in Bancroft, given the limited options for 800V models on the route from Ottawa to points West, while sites in Penetanguishene and Temiskaming Shores round out the set.

⚪ On the Supercharger for Business side, a single site in Macomb, MI, was the only SfB location energized this week. M-59 Enterprises (Mobil) is the owner.

🛒 Walmart EV Charging opened its latest Texas location, with 8 stalls now online at Neighborhood Market 3530 in Rockwell.

⚡ ViaLynk kept its activation streak alive by adding a single 8-stall site at The Boss’s Signature in Bartlett, IL. This location puts the network within one site activation of 500 stalls, which would put it firmly in the peloton of rising CPOs chasing the top 10 (alongside Shell, EV Gateway, and Francis Energy).

🟠 ChargePoint added 20 ports across 8 sites, the largest of which is an 8-port Caltrans site in Bakersfield, CA, followed by 4 ports on Main Street in Ukiah, CA. The rest are smaller, including a Canadian entry in Vancouver, BC.

🟢 Electrify America energized 10 ports at 2 sites, including 6 NEVI stalls at the Galleria in Middletown, NY, an EVolve NY location, and 4 at a P66 location in Walnut, CA. The latter is another “Powered by EA” site, which is owned by P66, which has set the pricing at $0.66 per kWh at this site.

⚜️ Circuit électrique added 17 ports at 2 Québec sites, with Lévis (14) and Wakefield (3) taking the network past 1,600 ports, according to AFDC records.

🟡 Shell Recharge added a single 2-stall site in Marlborough, MA. With recent additions in Texas under the NEVI program and now this location, the Shell network is gradually building back after divesting former Volta charging locations. It now has more than 500 stalls in the US, spread across 81 sites.

⭕ Red E added 6 ports at 2 sites, including 4 at a Valero in Rock Tavern, NY, and 2 at a Chevron gas station in San Antonio, TX.

🏁 Rounding out fast-charging additions the week: EVRANGE added 8 ports at 2 California sites, 4 each in Clovis and Caruthers; EVgo added 8 ports at Centerpoint Mall in Oxnard, CA; Rivian Adventure Network added an 8-stall site in Jacksonville, FL; NOODOE added 6 ports at City Center Campus in Joliet, IL; and Blink, FLO, RaceTrac, and EVOKE each added 2 ports at single sites.

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

⭕ IONNA upgraded 3 sites to Rechargery @ Circle K locations this week, in Goodyear, AZ, Escondido, CA, and Kennewick, WA. In keeping with some other California Circle K retrofits, the Escondido site gets NACS connectors but no CCS1 option, so drivers will need to bring an adapter. With the consistent flow of these sites turning over every week, the project should be complete by December. At that point, attention turns to new IONNA @ Circle K locations.

↔️ Sticking with connector switches, this section will also now report NACS conversions at existing sites thanks to the helpful new “Recent Changes” list that launched on DCFCtracker (courtesy of AlejandroEV66). This week sees NACS handles added to EVgo locations in Diamond Bar and Moreno Valley, while Rivian switches out some handles at RAN sites in Belcamp, MD, Forks, WA, and Wichita, KS. All of these retain some CCS1 handles, so no adapter needed as long as you pick the correct stall for your port on the way in 👀

🔶 RANtracker reports a retrofit for the Adventure Network site in Daytona Beach, FL, in order to add an ADA accessible stall.

🚧 On the upgrade side, the Electrify America sites in Anaheim, CA, and San Mateo, CA, appear to be back online with new BTC Power hardware, based on successful PlugShare sessions. EA locations currently offline to replace aging hardware are: Dunnigan, CA | Eureka, CA | Lake Zurich, IL | Hauppauge, NY.

🔧 Tesla didn’t expand any of its sites across North America this week, but did bring a notable one back up to full strength. The site in Campbell, CA, was one of the first full V4 Superchargers, capable of delivering up to 500kW, and it now has the full complement of 16 stalls to do so, following recent work.

🪙 On the NEVI side, per our headline story for this edition, TxDOT finally made a massive Texas award drop official with an announcement this week. The big winner is Universal EV Chargers, emerging with 147 planned sites awarded and almost 41% of the total dollars allocated to fund them. The big question here is how many will be deployed under the Tesla Supercharger for Business program. Red E also walks away with 41 site awards, and Love's Travel Stops rounds out the top 3 recipients with 25 sites awarded. Too many locations to list, but you can find status updates on all planned Texas NEVI sites here.

🔶 An updated coming soon map spotted by RANtracker shows 28 new Adventure Network locations in planning, including valuable sites in Jackson, WY (which is already well underway and will serve Yellowstone National Park well), and Colorado Rocky Mountain locations in Frisco and Fairplay.

📝 In Tesla permitting, MarcoRP shared new Supercharger filings for Dolan, AZ, Columbia, MD, and a Supercharger for Business site for ROAM Energy for Orlando, FL.

🟢 A new ChargeSmart EV site is taking shape in Natick, MA, in an area that is becoming something of a DCFC hub. A series of retail properties have added fast chargers in the past year or so, taking an exit that once offered only Tesla V2 Superchargers to one that will soon have as many as five DCFC options from different providers within a half-mile radius.

🟠 The EV Infrastructure Report highlighted the next wave of the Circle K-IONNA partnership to watch, with a new site in permitting for Charlotte, NC. Even with a blank slate, the plans show only 6 stalls at this new site, which could indicate the Rechargery @ Circle K project will remain the more basic end of the IONNA network, with fewer stalls than other partner sites.

🚧 Construction is underway at new Supercharger sites in the following locations, according to supercharge.info: Stockton, CA, Jacksonville, FL, Brownsburg, QC, Myrtle Beach, SC, and Murfreesboro, TN.

🛒 No notable changes in what we know of the Walmart EV Charging project, which still has 358 sites in the pipeline across the US. Around one-third are currently under construction, based on numbers from Wattmart, and we’re watching those in Montana and New Mexico closely, as energizing these sites will add new states to the 22 that WEVC has already added to the map.

🚛 New Megacharger sites are planned for Ocala, FL, Troutdale, OR, and Salt Lake City, UT. Check out the full tracking map from MarcoRP here.

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News - An interview with Zaptec Product Manager and industry charging expert Ned Funnell outlines the potential fleet advantages of making the SAE-J3068 standard more common across North America.

Numbers - Adding a third conductor to a 480V supply increases power by 73%, delivering ~52 kW from a common 480V/63A installation (as pictured below). This compares favorably to the 10 to 15 kW ceiling that J1772 offers at commercial sites, without adding the expense of DC hardware. Many fleet depots already receive 480V three-phase power from the utility, so J3068 sends it straight to the vehicle, removing hardware upgrade requirements to reduce cost and deployment lead time.

Nuance - DC fast chargers aren’t wrong for commercial fleets, but it’s limiting for North American fleet operators that they are the only step up from J1772, especially when their duty cycles don’t justify the extra cost. Transformer upgrades, higher hardware costs, and utility capacity requests sized to the smallest available DC unit are a high price to pay for 50kW power delivery. J3068 reframes that charging math, using the 480V three-phase supply most industrial properties already have to deliver a similar amount of power as low-end fast-charging, but at a fraction of the cost.

Next Up - Range Energy has already implemented J3068 on its electric-powered trailer in the US, and Ned name-checks Harbinger Motors as a near-perfect fit for the standard in this interview. A Class 3–5 specialist that just received a 2,000-vehicle order from FedEx and sells exclusively to fleet depots, where three-phase power is already the norm, makes Harbinger one to watch on this topic.

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:

Electric Mobility Canada CEO reviews country’s Q326 DCFC deployment

Osborne Corp CEO shares details on building out DCFC for leading CPOs

ChargerHelp releases 2026 Annual Reliability Report

iSeeCars ranks top 10 best/worst US cities for EV charging

Honda is working on a wireless, in-road EV charging system

New Hampshire’s slow charging deployment threatens its tourism sector

Cord cutters reach even remote regions, as Sioux Falls, SD Supercharger hit

RANH grant program for L2 chargers open in New Hampshire (ends 11/15/26)

CALeVIP opened Window 2 for Fast Charge California Project (FCCP)

Colorado is currently running its latest DCFC Plazas Program funding round

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

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

Pennsylvania Corridor Connections NOFO windows are open across the state - Next regional deadline: 11/20/26 (Western)

Tennessee is running a TDEC rebate program for MFD level 2 charging projects

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

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

A closing hat tip to Charles Morris at Charged EVs, who delivered two informative interviews with EV charging insiders this week. It’s uncommon to see these exchanges go much beyond the usual press release fodder in this sector, so I look forward to reading more work like this 🙌🏻

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Cheers,

Steve / Plug & Play EV

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