Electrify America has opened a 24-charger fast-charging station in Orlando, Florida, which Electrek reported on Oct. 20, 2026 as the network’s largest to date. The site sits in the Sand Lake Corners South shopping center on South John Young Parkway, a short drive from Interstate 4, Orlando International Airport, Walt Disney World and Universal Studios. Each charger can deliver up to 350 kW.
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Twenty-four stalls at Sand Lake Corners South
According to Electrek’s report, all 24 chargers at the Orlando site use CCS plugs only, so a vehicle with a Tesla-style NACS port would generally need an adapter to use them. Electrify America is piloting NACS connectors at selected stations, including the Florida Mall in Orlando, and drivers can check which connectors are available at a given site in the company’s app. Electrek did not say how large the previous biggest station was, and the article quotes no Electrify America executive, so the size comparison rests on the outlet’s own characterization.
Earlier this year the network was already building big. S&P Global Mobility’s news service reported on Feb. 11, 2026 that Electrify America’s network had passed 5,600 chargers across North America and that two large-format stations in California each had more than 20 chargers. A June 18, 2026 item from the same service described a new large-format station in downtown Santa Barbara with 20 hyperfast chargers, each able to deliver up to 350 kW. Orlando’s 24 stalls push the format a step further.
The 350 kW figure is the ceiling for each charger, not a promise for every car. How quickly a given vehicle charges depends on its own battery and charging limits, and when many stalls are in use at once the site may share power between them. Electrek’s report gives no per-vehicle charging times and no detail on how the Orlando site distributes power, so the 350 kW rating is the only performance number the available sources support.
Why Orlando gets the largest hub
The location explains much of the logic. Electrek points out that the station is a stone’s throw from Interstate 4 and the airport, the theme parks that draw visitors in rental cars and personal vehicles alike, and a shopping center where drivers can eat or run errands while they charge. A large bank of chargers at a retail site also means a driver is less likely to arrive to find every stall taken.
Florida’s vehicle numbers back up the demand case. The Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuels Data Center lists 450,400 electric vehicle registrations in Florida for 2025, the second-largest total in the United States after California, which has 1,843,100. Electrek adds that Electrify America operates more than 350 chargers at over 60 Florida stations, so the new Orlando site alone adds 24 stalls to a state network that was already sizable. The registration figures are rounded to the nearest 100 and are counted by vehicle identification number. The same page puts Texas third with 387,400, which gives Florida a clear second-place position, though California’s total is about 4.1 times larger.
Set against the other large-format sites the same news service described this year, the Orlando number is a modest but real step up. The Santa Barbara station has 20 chargers and the two California stations mentioned in February each had more than 20, while the Orlando hub has 24. Because those S&P Global summaries sit behind a paywall, the exact size of the previous record holder cannot be confirmed from them, which is why this article leans on Electrek for the claim that Orlando is the biggest so far.
What is still to come in the Orlando area
Orlando already hosts one of those pilot sites. InsideEVs reported on June 3, 2025 that Electrify America had begun opening stations in Orlando and Waterford, Connecticut, where each of three stalls can charge two vehicles at once through four cables, two CCS and two NACS, at up to 400 kW per stall. That pilot is separate from the new 24-charger hub, which Electrek says is CCS only, and the two sites illustrate a connector transition still being worked out stall by stall.
A second Orlando site is next. Electrek reports that Electrify America expects to open a 10-charger station at 10226 Curry Ford Road in the coming months, though no date has been announced. When that opens, the Orlando area will have the 24-charger Sand Lake Corners South hub, the NACS pilot site, the Florida Mall station and the Curry Ford Road location on the network map, all within one metropolitan area. Counting only the two stations Electrek describes as new, Orlando gains 34 fast-charging stalls once the second site opens.
What remains unanswered is how the busiest sites hold up under theme-park-season demand. Electrek’s report is a day-of-opening account: it gives no usage figures, no pricing and no operating data from the first days of service, and Electrify America has not published any of that in the sources reviewed for this article.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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