General Motors and EV charging company EVgo announced that they’ve installed their 2,000th public EV charging stall, in Murrieta, California. With that, GM has met a deadline it set in September to have the bulk of its planned 2,850 DC fast-charging stalls set up by the end of this year.
GM says the new station, which is near Interstate 215 in Riverside County, serves five 350kW fast chargers for as many as 10 EVs simultaneously. All of the new GM / EVgo stalls are populated with CCS chargers, EVgo communications director Katie Wallace told The Verge in an email. Wallace said the company is still testing Tesla’s NACS, which has emerged as the de facto standard over the last year and a half, before using it in charging stations:
EVgo is working to ensure the NACS connector/J3400 standard is thoroughly tested at our Innovation Lab for performance and interoperability before launching initial deployments, including retrofits to our existing stalls. We expect to be among the first in the industry to have NACS available for high power, liquid cooled cables.
EVgo president Dennis Kish said that its relationship with GM has helped his company “bring public charging to communities in more than 30 states across the US,” and that the company is working toward deploying its “first flagship destinations next year.”
GM said back in September that this network, which is distinct from another planned 2,000-strong network of DC fast chargers at Flying J and Pilot truck stops, will include 400 “flagship” gas station-style charging locations. Those will be built out in major metropolitan areas of states like Florida, California, Texas, and Michigan, the company said today. That’s all in addition to another EV charging network consortium called Ionna that GM is participating in along with car companies like Hyundai, Kia, BMW, and Stellantis.
Update December 4th: Added charger details provided by EVgo communications director Katie Wallace.
