Here in the US, IONNA has been partnering with other chains of travel plazas and gas stations. Sheetz, Wawa, and Casey’s are also partners for Rechargery locations.
More chargers than you might think
Since public fast-charging locations are often invisible to the 98+ percent of Americans who don’t have an EV, and assuming the DOE AFSL data is still good, there are currently 17,557 fast-charging locations in the US and Canada, for a total of 79,564 plugs.
A majority of those are NACS plugs—42,879 of them, at 4,739 locations. NACS, also known as J3400, uses the smaller, lighter Tesla-designed plug and is now the standard for most new EVs in the US. Of those nearly 5,000 NACS locations, 3,334 are Tesla Supercharger sites, with a total of 39,993 plugs. (Come on, Tesla, add another seven.)
You’ll find many more CCS1 locations out there. While this might have been the de facto standard for all non-Tesla EVs until 2024, there was no equivalent to Tesla’s giant Supercharger network, so the 14,193 locations include a bewildering array of operators, totaling 38,157 plugs. Meanwhile, I was surprised to discover there are still quite a lot of CHAdeMO sites out there: 7,585 locations with 11,286 plugs, according to the DOE data. That will be good news for all you first- and second-generation Nissan Leaf drivers, as well as anyone who picked that option on their Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV and wants to pay a lot of money for a charge that won’t be much faster than just using level 2 AC power instead.
We already know there are 108 IONNA spots with 1,028 plugs, but what about some of the better-known charging networks? Electrify America has 1,133 locations and 5,539 plugs, but they’re mostly CCS: four locations have a total of 32 NACS plugs.
EVgo, which partnered with GM Energy a while ago, has the edge on locations—1,192—but loses to EA on plug count, with 5,022. Forty-one EVgo locations have NACS already, with a total of 106 plugs.
ChargePoint has a similar number of DC fast chargers in its network: 5,121, but spread out over 4,691 locations. Of these, 644 have a total of 686 NACS plugs.
Other automakers are also building out charging networks (which are open to other makes of EV). In addition to its participation in the IONNA joint venture, Mercedes-Benz is building a separate network of fast-charging locations with ChargePoint. Currently, it has 66 stations with 128 operational ports, 15 of which have a total of 30 NACS plugs. Rivian’s Adventure Network now totals 144 locations and 963 plugs, with 36 locations sharing 106 NACS ports. And Ford has the Ford Charge network, spread out at 370 Ford dealerships with a total of 1,346 plugs, all CCS.