#stateoffastcharging

Greenlots

Last I reported, QwickCharge out of Atlanta bought these old Greenlots assets and intended to slap a credit card reader on them and get them back in operation. To date, nothing has happened at any of these locations:

The Biltmore Ave Parking Deck

The Asheville Public Works station

Charlotte’s  AAA South End

Charlotte’s AAA on Flat River Dr.

Cherokee

Waynesville (personally tried to use this unit, while powered up it will not start a CCS session due to a proximity error)

Dallas

Salisbury

Matthews

Wadesboro

Greensboro

Hillsborough

Durham

Chapel Hill

Leland

Calabash

The only active Greenlots machines that I can find are all Level 2 systems, however, Duke Energy’s Plug&Charge pilot will use Greenlots as their management backend (the only site currently open is just over the border in SC at South of the Border). It’s entirely possible that in next year’s report there will be some Greenlots stations to report.

ChargePoint

ChargePoint’s footprint continues to grow the North Carolina Electric Member Cooperative’s Electric Vehicle Network using funds from the VW Diesel Emission Mitigation funding plan. The complete list of online locations:

2020 Machines Online: 18

2021 Machines Online: 34 (change: +16)

Machines to be built in 2022: 7

Raleigh: Land Rover, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Durham: BMW, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Greensboro: Land Rover, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Concord: Speedway Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Raleigh: Tobacco Road Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Fayetteville: Fort Bragg Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Shallotte: Beach House Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Wallace: Bad Boar Restaurent, 50kW (CPE250)

Lenoir: Blue Ridge Energy District Office, 50kW (Tritium)

Moncure: Jordan Damn Mini Mart, 50kW (CPE250)

Avon: Pangea Tavern, 50kW (CPE250)

Dobson: Circle K, 50kW (CPE250)

Huntersville: BP, 50kW (CPE250)

Asheboro: McDonalds, 50kW (CPE250)

High Point: Riding High Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Evergreen: Sun-Do Kwik Stop, 50kW (CPE250)

Enfield: Shell, 50kW (CPE250)

Boone: Blue Ridge Energy, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Statesville: The Greenbrier Grill/Banner Drug, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Mocksville: Mcdonalds, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Marshville: Town of Marshville Public Parking, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Elizabeth City: McDonalds,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Tarboro: Edgecomb EMC,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Wilson: Chick-Fil-A,  125kW/62.5kW (2x Powershared CPE250)

Mebane: Arby’s,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Carrboro: Carrboro Plaza,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Halifax, 125kW/62.5kW (2x Powershared CPE250)

Hope Mills: Dirtbag Ales/Dirty Whiskey,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Lake Gaston: Lake Gaston Pit Stop,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Graham:  PART Park & Ride, 50kW (CPE250)

Lexington: Lexington Parkway Plaza 62.5kW (CPE250)

Lilesville (formerly Wadesboro): Pee Dee Electric, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Locations that should be open by Winter 2022 report:

Waynesville: Unknown

Morganton 1: Unknown

Morganton 2: Unknown

Siler City: in the ground, not yet activated

Kinston: Unknown Status

New Bern: in the ground, not yet activated  125kW/62.5kW (2x Powershared CPE250)

Wilmington: Unknown

It is safe to assume that all new locations will either be a single 62.kW CPE250 or a pair of power-shared CPE250s that can provide up to 125kW to a single vehicle. ChargePoint now has two, and hopefully soon three, locations that have redundancy (meaning 2 or more stations at the location).

EVgo

EVgo has expanded their footprint and improved reliability in 2021:

2020 Machines Online: 23

2021 Machines Online: 30 (change: +7)

Machines to be built in 2022: 0

Asheville outlet mall (2) 50kW

Asheville Biltmore Park 50kW

Charlotte Ballantyne Commons Pkwy BP 50kW

Charlotte Walker Branch Road BP  50kW

Charlotte Steele Creek Rd BP  50kW

Charlotte Mt Holly-Huntersville Rd BP  50kW

Charlotte Vinnie’s Way BP  50kW

Charlotte Cambridge Commons Dr BP  50kW

Charlotte The Shoppes at Highland Creek  50kW

Charlotte Thomas Ave Public Lot  50kW

Charlotte SouthPark Mall  50kW

Mooresville BP  50kW

Durham at The Hyatt  50kW

Durham South Square Mall  50kW

Cary Sheetz  50kW

Morrisville Sheetz  50kW

Raleigh Marriott  50kW

Raleigh Airport Sheetz  50kW

Raleigh AAA New Hope Rd  50kW

Wake Forest has one at the AAA  50kW

Mint Hill at Earp’s Express  50kW

Matthews BP  50kW

Charlotte Carmel Commons 2x 100kW and 1x 350kW (dual CCS no CHAdeMO)

Greensboro Lowe’s Foods Jamestown 2x 100kW

Raleigh Lowe’s Foods Brier Creek 2x 100kW

EVgo listed Harrisburg as the award site under the Phase 1 VW Settlement funds, but it appears they built in South Charlotte instead. At least all three locations are online! EVgo’s new sites are all minimum 2 dispensers at twice the power level of their existing network footprint.

Electrify America

2020 Machines Online: 54

2021 Machines Online: 58 (change: +4)

Machines to be built in 2022: 0

Electrify America is the largest operator by a wide margin now: 58 dispensers across 12 sites. They’re no longer the only company with a redundant design - meaning more than one dispenser and more than one cable per machine. The open locations:

Raleigh: 6 (BTCPower)

Wake Forest: 3 (Signet)

Rocky Mount: 4 (Signet)

Henderson: 4 (Signet)

Greensboro: 8 (Signet)

Charlotte: 10 (ABB)

Asheville: 4 (Signet)

Hillsborough: 4 (ABB)

Cary: 3 (Signet)

Smithfield: 4 (Signet)

Lumberton: 4 (Signet)

Statesville: 4 (Signet)

Interstate Highway Coverage: I-95

Interstate 95 now has 7 DC fast charging locations with 18 dispensers. Starting at the North Carolina Welcome center:

13.6mi: Halifax, 2x ChargePoint 62.5kW to 125kW

7.4mi: Enfield, 1x ChargePoint 50kW

25.7mi: Rocky Mount, Electrify America 2x 150kW and 2x 350kW

18.8mi: Wilson,  2x ChargePoint 62.5kW to 125kW

27.3mi: Smithfield, Electrify America 2x 150kW and 2x 350kW

55.7mi: Hope Mills, 1x ChargePoint 62.5kW

21.1: Lumberton, Electrify America 2x 150kW and 2x 350kW

27.5: South of the Boarder, 2x 150kW Duke Plug & Charge

The single longest stretch between chargers is Smithfield and Hope Mills. If a single charger were to be installed between these locations, I-95 would qualify for Alternative Fuel Corridor signage from the Federal Government. I-95 needs to have billboard signage to promote these charging locations, this is a project I’ve been trying to engage Plug-in NC and The NC Clean Energy Technology Center into funding.

Interstate Highway Coverage: I-85

Interstate 85 now has 7 DC fast charging locations with 29 dispensers. Starting at the VA State Line:

29.7mi: Henderson, Electrify America 2x 150kW and 2x 350kW

48.2mi: Hillsborough, Electrify America 2x 150kW and 2x 250kW

11.6mi: Mebane, 1x ChargePoint 62.5kW

9.0mi: Graham, 1x ChargePoint 50kW

25.9mi: Greensboro, Electrify America 6x 150kW and 2x 350kW

33.9mi: Lexington, 1x ChargePoint 62.5kW

50.9mi: Charlotte, Electrify America 8x 150kW and 2x 350kW

44.3mi: SC Border

Interstate 85 technically qualifies for Alternative Fuel Corridor signage, being that 50.9 miles is the single longest stretch between charging stations. This doesn’t denote non-networked/dealership charging stations or any charging station below 50kW.

Interstate Highway Coverage: I-40

Interstate 40 now has 13 DC fast charging locations with 29 dispensers. Starting at the TN border:

41.1mi: Asheville, Electrify America 2x 150kW and 2x 350kW

6.7mi: Asheville, EVgo 2x 50kW

108mi: Statesville, Electrify America 2x 150kW and 2x 350kW

4mi: Statesville, ChargePoint 62.5kW

16.9mi: Mocksville, ChargePoint 62.5kW

45.1mi: Greensboro, EVgo 2x 100kW

11.4mi: Greensboro, Electrify America 4x 150kW 2x 350kW

26.8mi: Graham, ChargePoint 62.5kW

8.6mi: Mebane, ChargePoint 62.5kW

25.4mi: Durham, EVgo 50kW

11.4mi: Morrisville, EVgo 50kW

7.1mi: Raleigh, EVgo 50kW

3.9mi: Cary, Electrify America 3x 150kW

94.2mi: Wallace, ChargePoint 50kW

39.8mi: Wilmington (pending DC Fast charger)

Greenlots

I haven’t spoken much on this subject since the last report. I emailed Brightfield Transportation Solutions, the station owner of all those Greenlots machines, back in Feb. Their email was basically a rehashing of the message they’d been posting to Plugshare entries for these machines.

They told me QwickCharge out of Atlanta bought the assets. I called QwickCharge up in March, after my reply to this email asking about the status of the acquisition went unanswered by Brightfield. I got the outgoing CEO on the phone, he actually answered it himself! He was stepping down from the role after the sale was finalized (I was told due to a disagreement with the board), but that he wouldn’t have anything to do with the project once the sale was completed. At that time they were still “a few weeks” away from finalizing the deal. He then told me how all these Signets are one-off boxes that were made cheaply for the Nissan Leaf EV charging network rollout. They didn’t use the same controllers as other machines, and they didn’t have upgradable firmware nor did Signet have a new 4G modem to replace the 3G modem in the units. The pending 3G network shutdown is why all the machines went offline or into free vend mode. I was also told that many muncipalities - who paid the bill for the machines and thus dealt with the “unfair demand charges from Duke,” requested the machines be throttled down to 20kW to avoid the demand charges. This is why some machines - like Leland - were operating so slowly towards the end of their life.

I called back in May or June, and spoke to the new CEO (who also answered the phone). He told me that they are planning to add a credit card reader to the machines to facilitate payments, and that the machines as they are will still be in use. I specifically inquired about Leland and Calabash locations on the coast, and was told that when they have a plan in place those would be the first machines to come back online. There is no ETA for when that will happen.

ChargePoint

ChargePoint had a growth spurt in 2019 with all the Harley-Davidson dealers getting chargers to support the LiveWire. In 2020, the North Carolina Electric Member Cooperative’s Electric Vehicle Network has driven most of their growth, and will continue to do so throughout 2021 under the VW Diesel Emission Mitigation funding plan. The complete list of online locations:

2019 Machines Online: 11

2020 Machines Online: 18 (change: +7)

Machines to be built by 2021: 15

Raleigh: Land Rover, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Durham: BMW, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Greensboro: Land Rover, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Concord: Speedway Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Raleigh: Tobacco Road Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Fayetteville: Fort Bragg Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Shallotte: Beach House Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Wallace: Bad Boar Restaurent, 50kW (Tritium)

Lenoir: Blue Ridge Energy District Office, 50kW (Tritium)

Moncure: Jordan Damn Mini Mart, 50kW (CPE250)

Avon: Pangea Tavern, 50kW (CPE250)

Dobson: Circle K, 50kW (CPE250)

Huntersville: BP, 50kW (CPE250)

Wadesboro: Pee Dee Electric, 50kW (CPE250)

Asheboro: McDonalds, 50kW (CPE250)

High Point: Riding High Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Evergreen: Sun-Do Kwik Stop, 50kW (CPE250)

Enfield: Shell, 50kW (CPE250)

Locations that should be open by Winter 2021:

Waynesville

Morganton 1

Morganton 2

Boone

Statesville

Mocksville

Marshville

Siler City

Carrboro

Mebane

Kinston

Wilson

Tarboro

New Bern

Elizabeth City

ChargePoint’s current scheme is to deploy the in-house build CPE250 to all these locations, power is expected to be 50kW at all locations.

EVgo

Literally nothing has changed with EVgo since 2019, shy only 3 of the 8 units have working CCS connectors as of this writing in the Raleigh-Durham area. EVgo operates 23 dispensers at 22 sites across the state:

2019 Machines Online: 23

2020 Machines Online: 23 (change: 0)

Machines to be built by 2021: 4

Asheville outlet mall (2)

Asheville Biltmore Park

Charlotte Ballantyne Commons Pkwy BP

Charlotte Walker Branch Road BP

Charlotte Steele Creek Rd BP

Charlotte Mt Holly-Huntersville Rd BP

Charlotte Vinnie’s Way BP

Charlotte Cambridge Commons Dr BP

Charlotte The Shoppes at Highland Creek

Charlotte Thomas Ave Public Lot

Charlotte SouthPark Mall

Mooresville BP

Durham at The Hyatt

Durham South Square Mall

Cary Sheetz

Morrisville Sheetz

Raleigh Marriott

Raleigh Airport Sheetz

Raleigh AAA New Hope Rd

Wake Forest has one at the AAA

Mint Hill at Earp’s Express

Matthews BP

EVgo has let us down yet again. EVgo was awarded 4 projects to be funded by the VW grant, those locations allegedly are all at Lowe’s Food stores in Raleigh (Brier Creek), Greensboro (Guildford College Rd), Kernersville, and Harrisburg. Notable, all locations will have two dispensers and only Greensboro is slated to be a 50kW location… all others claim to be 200kW. This begs the question, is that 200kW per machine or is it power-shared?

Electrify America

2019 Machines Online: 54

2020 Machines Online: 54 (change: 0)

Machines to be built by 2021: 4

Electrify America has not failed to impress me, but they have had their growing pains… like turning off the I-95 corridor over Labor Day. Now, it should be noted that they replaced all the buggy Efaced hardware with ABB or Signet machines. This is good, but, there’s issues with Signet machines and Energica Motorcycles as well as the Volvo XC40 Recharge P8. So there is still work to be done, a fix for this issue is supposed to be deployed by the end of Jan (so I’m told).

Electrify America is the largest operator by a wide margin now: 54 dispensers across 11 sites, soon to be 58 dispensers at 12 sites. They’re still the only company with a redundant design - meaning more than one dispenser and more than one cable per machine. The open locations:

Raleigh: 6 (BTCPower)

Wake Forest: 3 (Signet)

Rocky Mount: 4 (Signet)

Henderson: 4 (Signet)

Greensboro: 8 (Signet)

Charlotte: 10 (ABB)

Asheville: 4 (Signet)

Hillsborough: 4 (ABB)

Cary: 3 (Signet)

Smithfield: 4 (Signet)

Lumberton: 4 (Signet)

The coming soon location (slated to be open Jan 2021):

Statesville: 4 (Signet)

Let’s hope that Electrify America can continue to grow and improve the compatibility of their machines with the EVs on the road.

Greenlots Shell ReCharge

Sine I last reported, QwickCharge out of Atlanta bought the old Greenlots assets and intended to slap a credit card reader on them and get them back in operation. To date, nothing has happened at any of these locations and I will no longer be mentioning them in future reports. These included:

The Biltmore Ave Parking Deck

The Asheville Public Works station

Charlotte’s  AAA South End

Charlotte’s AAA on Flat River Dr.

Cherokee

Waynesville (personally tried to use this unit, while powered up it will not start a CCS session due to a proximity error)

Dallas

Salisbury

Matthews

Wadesboro

Greensboro

Hillsborough

Durham

Chapel Hill

Leland

Calabash

Duke Energy’s Park and Plug program has finally launched in North Carolina this year! They added 3 locations all featuring a pair of 150kW charging stations:

Kinston

Hallsboro

Saluda

There is one other Shell ReCharge DC Station in Asheville, a 50kW at AB Tech.

ChargePoint

ChargePoint's footprint continues to grow the North Carolina Electric Member Cooperative’s Electric Vehicle Network using funds from the VW Diesel Emission Mitigation funding plan. The North Carolina EMCs brought a few more stations online this year, but most of ChargePoint’s growth has been in the auto dealer sector. The complete list of online locations:

2021 Machines Online: 34

2022 Machines Online: 45 (change: +11)

Raleigh: Land Rover, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Durham: BMW, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Greensboro: Land Rover, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Concord: Speedway Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Raleigh: Tobacco Road Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Fayetteville: Fort Bragg Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Shallotte: Beach House Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Wallace: Bad Boar Restaurent, 50kW (CPE250)

Lenoir: Blue Ridge Energy District Office, 50kW (Tritium)

Moncure: Jordan Damn Mini Mart, 50kW (CPE250)

Avon: Pangea Tavern, 50kW (CPE250)

Dobson: Circle K, 50kW (CPE250)

Huntersville: BP, 50kW (CPE250)

Asheboro: McDonalds, 50kW (CPE250)

High Point: Riding High Harley-Davidson, 24kW (KEYWATT)

Evergreen: Sun-Do Kwik Stop, 50kW (CPE250)

Enfield: Shell, 50kW (CPE250)

Boone: Blue Ridge Energy, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Statesville: The Greenbrier Grill/Banner Drug, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Mocksville: Mcdonalds, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Marshville: Town of Marshville Public Parking, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Elizabeth City: McDonalds,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Tarboro: Edgecomb EMC,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Wilson: Chick-Fil-A,  125kW/62.5kW (2x Powershared CPE250)

Mebane: Arby’s,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Carrboro: Carrboro Plaza,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Halifax, 125kW/62.5kW (2x Powershared CPE250)

Hope Mills: Dirtbag Ales/Dirty Whiskey,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Lake Gaston: Lake Gaston Pit Stop,  62.5kW (CPE250)

Graham:  PART Park & Ride, 50kW (CPE250)

Lexington: Lexington Parkway Plaza 62.5kW (CPE250)

Lilesville (formerly Wadesboro): Pee Dee Electric, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Siler CIty: Smithfield’s Chicken N Bar-B-Q 62.5kW (CPE250)

Goldsboro: Deacon Jones Hyundai 62.5kW (CPE250)

High Point: Kia 24kW (ABB)

New Bern: Red Bear Lot  125kW/62.5kW (2x Powershared CPE250)

Elizabeth City: Hall Hyundai 125kW/625.kW (2x Powershared CPE250)

Asheville: Jaguar-Land Rover, 24kW (ABB)

Fayetteville: Mercedes-Benz, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Fayetteville: Lee Hyundai, 2x 62.5kW (CPE250)

Salisbury: TICO MFG MOBILE 1, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Kinston: Caswell St Parking, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Statesville: Flow Hyundai, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Waynesville: BP, 2x 62.5kW (CPE250)

Wilmington: Market St Parking, 125kW/62.5kW (2x Powershared CPE250)

Monroe: Union County Kia, 24kW (ABB)

Raleigh: Mercedes-Benz, 24kW (ABB)

EVgo

EVgo has expanded their footprint using VW Diesel Emission money and GM funding, adding 6 new high-power locations to their footprint:

2021 Machines Online: 30

2022 Machines Online: 36 (change: +6)

Asheville outlet mall (2) 50kW

Asheville Biltmore Park 50kW

Charlotte Ballantyne Commons Pkwy BP 50kW

Charlotte Walker Branch Road BP  50kW

Charlotte Steele Creek Rd BP  50kW

Charlotte Mt Holly-Huntersville Rd BP  50kW

Charlotte Vinnie's Way BP  50kW

Charlotte Cambridge Commons Dr BP  50kW

Charlotte The Shoppes at Highland Creek  50kW

Charlotte Thomas Ave Public Lot  50kW

Charlotte SouthPark Mall  50kW

Mooresville BP  50kW

Durham at The Hyatt  50kW

Durham South Square Mall  50kW

Cary Sheetz  50kW

Morrisville Sheetz  50kW

Raleigh Marriott  50kW

Raleigh Airport Sheetz  50kW

Raleigh AAA New Hope Rd  50kW

Wake Forest has one at the AAA  50kW

Mint Hill at Earp’s Express  50kW

Matthews BP  50kW

Charlotte Carmel Commons 2x 100kW + 1x 350kW (dual CCS no CHAdeMO)

Greensboro Lowe’s Foods Jamestown 2x 100kW

Raleigh Lowe’s Foods Brier Creek 2x 100kW

Garner: Shoppes at Garner 2x 100kW

Cary: Shoppes at Kildaire, 2x 100kW + 1x 350kW

Raleigh: Ridgewood Shopping Center, 2x 100kW + 1x 350kW

Durham: Woodcroft Shopping Center, 2x 100kW

Durham: Erwin Mills Shopping Center, 4x 100kW

Charlotte: Food Lion Tuckaseegee Rd, 2x 100kW + 1x 350kW

Electrify America

2021 Machines Online: 58

2022 Machines Online: 58

Electrify America is the largest operator by a wide margin now: 58 dispensers across 12 sites. They’re no longer the only company with a redundant design - meaning more than one dispenser and more than one cable per machine. The open locations:

Raleigh: 6 (BTCPower)

Wake Forest: 3 (Signet)

Rocky Mount: 4 (Signet)

Henderson: 4 (Signet)

Greensboro: 8 (Signet)

Charlotte: 10 (ABB)

Asheville: 4 (Signet)

Hillsborough: 4 (ABB)

Cary: 3 (Signet)

Smithfield: 4 (Signet)

Lumberton: 4 (Signet)

Greenlots

Greenlots had 16 dispensers across 14 cities. As I reported back in September, something is amiss with them. Seemingly overnight all their stations disappeared off the map, then some came back as non-networked/unbranded. It turns out after much digging that the 3G network the modems that these old Signet machines use is being shut down in December 2019. As a result the machines were pushed an update to put them into “local mode” so that they can still dispense energy. Except, that, it seems very few of them still dispense at all. But let’s break it down site by site.

The Biltmore Ave Parking Deck location in Asheville no longer exists.

The Asheville Public Works station has removed the DC Fast machine from its listing but a recent check-in comment says that the machine is there and still working but that it is slated to be replaced with another company’s hardware.

Charlotte’s  AAA South End is in free mode and only dispensing 9kW par reports. 

Charlotte’s AAA on Flat River Dr. has disappeared off the map entirely.

Cherokee the DC Fast has been removed from the listing.

Waynesville the DC Fast is still there and working par user reports.

Dallas is the only station that still shows up in the Greenlots app, despite the machine having been powered down for some time it appears it is back online with a check in on Dec 14.

Salisbury the screen has always had a broken, unreadable screen. But my buddy Rev used it with his Energica EsseEsse9 back in November. He said if you knew where to tap on the screen it would work.

Matthews has been removed from PlugShare.

Wadesboro has been powered off for months and the town padlocked the power switch so no one can use it.

Greensboro had a faulty CCS cable before the decommissioning began. It was never fixed. It was removed from PlugShare, I added it back, and someone has removed it again. It is still there but it may only work for Nissan drivers, if it works at all.

Hillsborough I tested this one the other day. The screen doesn’t respond to touches, so you can’t activate it.

Durham the machines touch screen works, but the CCS cable is messed up. You must drape it a certain way on the parking pylon so that there is tension on the plug end. If you don’t, it won’t charge. I charged for more than 10 minutes using this method.

Chapel Hill’s location has been removed from Plugshare. I have not gone out to see if it’s still there and working in free mode.

Leland is reporting that it’s only dispensing 9kW in free mode

Calabash has been removed from the map. Reports say that the machine is inoperable. I’ve not had a chance to investigate this myself.

If you’ve read my blog for any period of time, you know that I’ve depended on many of these machines to complete my adventures. I cannot depend on them anymore, which means that many intra-state routes are no longer accessible to EVs.

ChargePoint

ChargePoint has been growing. Back in the spring they had 5 stations, most of which were 24kW machines at vehicle dealerships. Today, they operate 11 sites. Most of these are Harley-Davidson dealers getting 24kW chargers for the LiveWire, but two of them are actually 62,5kW CPE250 machines. Let’s look at the breakdown:

Raleigh Land Rover, 24kW

Durham BMW, 24kW

Greensboro Land Rover, 24kW

Speedway Harley-Davidson in Charlotte, 24kW

Tobacco Road Harley-Davidson in Raleigh, 24kW

Fort Bragg Harley-Davidson in Fayetteville, 24kW

Beach House Harley-Davidson in Shallotte, 24kW

Wallace, 50kW (Tritium)

Lenoir, 50kW (Tritium)

Jordan Damn Mini Mart in Moncure, 62.5kW (CPE250)

Pangea Tavern in Avon, 62.5kW (CPE250)

I have had the least amount of luck with ChargePoint DC fast >50kW. Wallace stranded me back in April, and the Jordan Dam site bricked my Energica’s DC Fast capabilities due to a firmware bug. I have faith that the CPE250 will be a sound machine since that’s built in-house (where the 50kW units were outsourced), but they’re not my first choice for DC fast charging by a long shot.

EVgo

Literally nothing has changed with EVgo, shy a few machines may be intermittent for CCS users. They operate 22 dispensers at 22 sites across the state: 

Asheville outlet mall (2) 

Asheville Biltmore Park

Charlotte Ballantyne Commons Pkwy BP

Charlotte Walker Branch Road BP

Charlotte Steele Creek Rd BP

Charlotte Mt Holly-Huntersville Rd BP

Charlotte Vinnie's Way BP

Charlotte Cambridge Commons Dr BP

Charlotte The Shoppes at Highland Creek

Charlotte Thomas Ave Public Lot

Charlotte SouthPark Mall 

Mooresville BP 

Durham at The Hyatt 

Durham South Square Mall

Cary Sheetz 

Morrisville Sheetz

Raleigh Marriott

Raleigh Airport Sheetz

Raleigh AAA New Hope Rd

Wake Forest has one at the AAA

Mint Hill at Earp’s Express

Matthews BP

I am majorly disappointed with EVgo’s progress for 2019. I have it on good authority from an EVgo partner that the company is focused solely on states that have released their VW Settlement monies and isn’t interested in any other kind of development. It frustrates me that EVgo has been selected as the sole provider for Virginia’s DC Fast network, mostly because they’re expensive and the only company that hasn’t broken the 50kW barrier yet. Well, that’s not true, neither has Greenlots...

Electrify America

Electrify America has not failed to impress me. They’re the largest operator by a wide margin now: 54 dispensers across 11 sites. They’re the only company with a redundant design - meaning more than one dispenser and more than one cable per machine. Their locations:

Asheville, 4 Efacec dispensers

Raleigh 6 BTCPower dispensers

Wake Forest 3 BTCPower dispensers

Rocky Mount 4 Efacec dispensers

Henderson 4 Efacec dispensers

Greensboro 8 Efacec dispensers

Charlotte 10 Efacec dispensers

Hillsborough 4 Efacec dispensers

Cary 3 BTCPower dispensers

Smithfield 4 Efacec dispensers

Lumberton 4 Efacec dispensers

The PlugShare score for these sites ranges from 7 to 10, meaning they have a high reliability rating. I’ve chronicled my experience with them, and their reliability and usability has improved drastically from April to July. Despite having a billing dispute with the company, they’re my #1 choice for travel because of amenities (even if it’s Walmart) and redundancy.