EV charging provider EVgo has committed to a massive deployment of EV charging sites at Kroger Family of Stores locations across the US. The company plans to build at least 150 fast charging stalls per year through 2035 at the company’s sites, which operate under various brands, including Kroger Foods, Fred Meyer, Fry’s Food Stores, Harris Teeter, King Soopers and Smith’s Food and Drug.
Each of the sites will include up to 16 DC fast charging stalls, featuring high-power EVgo chargers that can deliver a full charge in as little as 15 minutes—an ideal fit for grocery locations where shoppers tend to spend less than an hour.
The first charging site of the expanded program is now operational in Salt Lake City. Additional deployments are slated for Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Washington and other states.
(Slightly) more in the article.
Yeah Walmart are supposedly putting in their own charging hardware and presumably some kind of network they control and profit from directly.
The ChargePoint chargers at a Sam’s Club near me have been inoperable for about 4 months and when I reported it, ChargePoint said the “owners of the stations declined to repair them”.
So I assume that means they are pending rollout of their own charging. Really inconvenient for now though.