Pilot, GM and EVgo Pass 300 Fast Charging Sites With About 1,300 350 kW Stalls in 40 States
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Marin Holt
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- Fast charging locations: 300
- Charging stalls: 1,300
- Stall power rating: 350 kW
- Contiguous US covered: 75%
Pilot Company, General Motors and EVgo said on August 4, 2026 that their joint fast charging network has passed 300 travel center locations in 40 states. The three companies count about 1,300 stalls. Each stall is rated at 350 kW and carries two cables. The partners set a target of 2,000 stalls at up to 500 Pilot and Flying J sites when they began the build in 2022. They are now past the halfway mark.
The sites cover about 75% of the contiguous United States, or more than 2.2 million square miles. Charging costs $0.59 per kWh. EVgo runs more than 5,200 stalls at over 1,200 locations across its whole network.
The stall rating is the number that matters to the grid. At 350 kW a stall, 1,300 stalls add up to a nameplate draw near 455 MW. Nothing close to that ever flows at once. Vehicles taper as they fill, and the sites sit in 40 different states. Each site still needs a distribution feeder, a transformer and often a new utility service.
Scott Hundley, director of light duty EV and infrastructure at Pilot, said the network makes long distance travel more reliable. Dennis Kish, president of EVgo, tied the milestone to summer travel demand.
Why It Matters
Highway charging sites are among the hardest loads a distribution utility serves. They are large. They sit far from load centers. They run in short sharp bursts, which is the profile demand charges punish hardest. A 350 kW stall that runs a tenth of the time sets the same monthly demand charge as one that runs all day. So the build rate matters more than the site count.
Fifty new sites in the first half of 2026 means fifty new utility service requests, and the interconnection work sets the schedule, not the hardware. Drivers rate the network 9.41 out of 10 on Plugshare. The reliability problem the partners set out to fix looks solved at the plug. The economics behind the meter are still open.
Critical Perspective
Pilot, GM and EVgo have about 1,300 stalls in the ground and roughly 700 left to reach their 2,000 stall target. The partners published no figure for how often those stalls are actually in use, which is the number that decides whether a site covers its own demand charge, and Electrify America ran a large network at thin usage for years before traffic caught up. Volta Charging built out fast on an advertising model that never covered the power bill and sold itself to Shell in 2023 at a fraction of its peak value. If a 350 kW stall sits idle nine hours in ten, who absorbs the demand charge, Pilot, EVgo, or the drivers paying $0.59 per kWh?
What Happens Next
About 200 more sites and roughly 700 more stalls remain before the partners reach the 500 site target. Pilot added 50 sites across 25 states in the first half of 2026 and rebuilt 18 older locations. At that pace the target lands in about two years, if utility service work keeps up. William Hotchkiss, head of public charging at GM, called the 300 site mark a coverage milestone rather than a finish line. Neither Pilot nor EVgo has published a completion date for the rest.
Sources
- BusinessWire: Pilot, General Motors and EVgo Power EV Road Trips with More Than 300 Fast-Charging Locations Nationwide
- EV Charging Stations: Pilot, GM, EVgo Celebrate 300+ DC Fast-Charging Sites
- InsideEVs: Pilot’s EV Charging Network Isn’t Slowing Down, It Just Hit 300 Locations
