One of America’s Biggest EV Charging Networks Is Betting Big On NACS

EVgo is ramping up installations of Tesla-style NACS charging ports. Others are doing the same.

EVgo Charging Station

Photo by: EVgo

Iulian Dnistran

By: Iulian Dnistran

Jan 28, at 4:14am ET

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Mercedes-Benz: 25 portsRivian Adventure Network: 34 ports7Charge: 37 ports7Charge: 37 portsEVgo, one of America’s largest networks of EV fast chargers, wants to increase the number of NACS ports at its sites significantly.
Other companies are doing the same, retrofitting or installing new NACS stalls across the country.
That’s great news for the owners of Tesla and non-Tesla EVs who don’t want to carry around an adapter.

One of the biggest EV charging networks in the United States, EVgo, is ramping up efforts to install Tesla-style NACS cables at its stations across the country.

After a successful pilot in 2025, when the company installed nearly 100 NACS connectors across 22 metropolitan areas, the charging network wants to supercharge the deployment this year, with more than 500 NACS connectors set to go online by the end of 2026 at its 350-kilowatt-capable stations.

Tesla Model Y charging at an EVgo charger

Photo by: EVgo

The new or upgraded sites will be open for business in more than 25 states, with an emphasis on the metropolitan areas of Austin, Houston, Las Vegas, Orlando, Phoenix, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit and San Francisco.

As more and more EVs roll off the assembly lines with a native Tesla-style NACS charging port, other charging operators are also getting in on the action, retrofitting old stations and installing new stalls with NACS connectors, making life a little easier for EV drivers who now live in a world of charging adapters.

EVgo is just one of the companies working to cater to NACS-equipped EVs, and it still has a long way to go. The company currently operates a total of 1,165 DC fast charging stations in the United States, according to the Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuels Data Center. These stations offer a total of 4,783 charging ports, and just 98 of them have NACS connectors.

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A few rival companies have moved a little faster, but generally speaking, there’s still a lot of work to be done to increase the number of DC fast chargers with NACS connectors in the U.S.

The undisputed leader is still Tesla, the company that invented the NACS connector. The Supercharger network has a total of 36,102 NACS ports open for business at 2,970 stations. There’s a total of 38,086 NACS DC fast chargers in the country, so it’s fair to say that Tesla has the monopoly on the market right now–and it will continue to do so for a long time.

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Next up is ChargePoint, which has 530 NACS fast charging ports and 4,349 CCS1 ports. Ionna is third, with 312 NACS ports and 544 CCS1 ports, followed by BP Pulse and EVgo.

According to the AFDC, there are a total of 31,119 CCS1 DC fast charging ports at 11,298 stations.

U.S. DC fast charging networks with NACS ports (January 2026)

Network NACS DC fast charging ports Tesla Supercharger 36,102 ChargePoint 530 Ionna 312 BP Pulse 138 EVgo 98 Revel 79 Red E Charge 77 Walmart 62 Applegreen Electric 48 Blink 44 Kwik Charge 40 7Charge 37 Rivian Adventure Network 34 Nayax Energy 34 Electric Era 30 Francis Energy 26 Mercedes-Benz 25 Gravity Charging Center 24 Electrify America 18 Graviti Energy 17 Jule 15 EVConnect 14