O the irony! US automakers insist that nobody wants to buy EVs, and one of the reasons cited is that there isn’t enough charging infrastructure.
Well, the folks who actually build and operate EV charging infrastructure have a different perspective. The number of DC fast charging ports in the US is growing at over 1,000 stalls per month, and the total recently surpassed 71,000.
Around 3,500 new stalls were added in the first quarter of this year, a substantial increase over the 2,700+ added in Q1 2025.
According to the Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC), as of April 1, 2026, there were 71,398 public DC fast charging ports in the US, at 15,121 charging sites (including 883 ports, or 1.2% of the total, that were temporarily out of service at the time of the survey).
AFDC notes that the number of sites may be somewhat misleading, as adjacent sites belonging to different networks may be counted as separate stations.
In fact, all these numbers should be taken with a gram or two of lithium salt, because the definition of a “network” is somewhat fluid. For example, Chargepoint, listed as the fourth largest network, doesn’t actually own most of its charging points. Other networks may have similar arrangements.
Charging sites are getting larger—AFDC found that the average number of ports per location increased to over 4.7 stalls, compared to 4.1 a year ago.
A few large players dominate the industry—the top 10 largest DC fast charging networks account for roughly 85% of the total number of ports. The remaining 15% belong to other networks, or are non-networked stations.
The Tesla Supercharger network remains the largest provider, with 36,877 ports. The company added almost 1,200 new ports in Q1. Despite this expansion, Tesla’s share of the charging decreased this quarter, to 51.6%, and AFDC predicts that it may soon fall below 50%.
More than two-thirds of Supercharger sites in North America are now open to non-Tesla EVs.
The largest DC fast charging networks (by number of charging ports):
- Tesla Superchargers: 36,877 ports (51.6% market share)
- Electrify America: 5,610 ports (7.9% share)
- EVgo: 5,102 ports (7.1% share)
- ChargePoint: 4,591 ports
- Blink: 1,989 ports
- EV Connect: 1,856 ports
- Red E Charge: 1,694 ports
- Ford Charge: 1,262 ports
- IONNA: 1,030 ports
- Rivian Adventure Network: 962 ports
Other notable networks that didn’t make the top ten: bp pulse, which now has over 700 ports; and Walmart’s new in-house network, which has rapidly expanded to over 200.
Source: EV Charging Stations
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