- Walmart is kicking its EV fast charging network into high gear.
- The retail giant has increased the number of DC fast charging stations at its stores across the U.S. by 50% in two months.
- The company currently has over 100 individual stalls, with thousands more in the works.
Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, has increased the size of its electric vehicle charging network in the United States by 50% in just two months, reaching over 200 ports.
According to the Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuels Data Center, Walmart now has 31 DC fast charging stations with a total of 224 high-powered connectors, as noted by EVChargingStations.com.
Walmart EV charging station
Photo by: EV Charging Stations
The company installs 400-kilowatt chargers exclusively, either from Alpitronic or ABB, with each stall being fitted with an NACS cable and a CCS1 port. In other words, Walmart now has 112 individual dispensers scattered around the United States, but thousands more are in the works.
The American retail giant already has thousands of DC fast chargers from other operators, like Electrify America, at its stores. However, the company decided to go into the EV charging business in 2023, with the first Walmart-branded chargers going online last year.
The initial development was quite slow. The first locations became operational in April of last year, and the multinational company reached 10 charging stations in November 2025. Three months later, the network size had doubled, reaching 20 stations in February, and now that number has gone up to 31.
Walmart has traditionally been tight-lipped about the development of its own EV charging network, but the firm said last year that it planned to install fast chargers at “thousands of its locations by 2030,” with even more coming in the next decade.
Currently, the state of Texas has the most Walmart EV charging stations–15. Arizona has six, Florida has three, and Oklahoma has two. Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, New Jersey, and South Carolina have one Walmart EV charging station each, according to the AFDC.
To use Walmart’s EV chargers, drivers need to use the store’s smartphone app. Pricing differs from one location to another, but the average price is $0.48/kilowatt-hour. The stalls don’t have card readers, so using the smartphone app is the only way to get a top-up.
