Charged EVs | Walmart is rolling out its in-house DC fast charging network at a rapid pace

Mega-retailer Walmart has had EV charging stations at its stores for years—thousands of DC fast chargers from public charging providers (chiefly Electrify America) grace its spacious parking lots.

The company decided to develop its own in-house (or “in-lot?”) network in 2023, and it isn’t losing any time. The first Walmart-branded chargers went online last year, and (according to the DOE’s Alternative Fuels Data Center) Walmart now has 31 DC fast charging stations with a total of 112 individual dispensers.

The company installs exclusively 400-kilowatt chargers from manufacturers Alpitronic and ABB. Each stall is fitted with an NACS and a CCS1 port.

Walmart hasn’t been talking to the press much about its EV charging network, so a lot of details are still unknown—but the firm said last year that it planned to install fast chargers at “thousands of its locations by 2030.”

Currently, the state of Texas has the most Walmart EV charging stations, with 15. Arizona has 6, Florida has 3, and Oklahoma has 2.

Walmart is bucking the trend toward installing credit card readers—drivers need to use the store’s smartphone app. Pricing varies from one location to another, but the average price as of this writing is a middling $0.48/kWh.

Source: InsideEVs