EVgo has opened its first station with Tesla Superchargers, a 12-stall site in Chicago that puts Tesla’s V4 cabinets, rated up to 500 kW, inside a rival’s network. Chief executive Badar Khan called the deployment an important milestone for growing the company’s customer base. Both CCS and NACS cars can plug in without an adapter.
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The opening turns an August announcement into hardware. Tesla has sold its Supercharger equipment to outside operators since 2025, and EVgo is using that program to install Tesla’s cabinets at its own locations. The result is a branded EVgo location that Tesla drivers can find in the car’s navigation, with charging speeds that the operator, not Tesla, sets prices for.
Twelve stalls, V4 cabinets and Magic Dock
InsideEVs reported that the Chicago site has 12 stalls and uses Tesla’s V4 Supercharging cabinets, which any commercial client can buy and install and which deliver up to 500 kW. The connectors use Tesla’s Magic Dock, so a driver with a CCS or NACS port does not need an adapter. InsideEVs did not publish a street address for the site.
The technical details come from EVgo’s Aug. 5 announcement, which said V4 units support up to 500 kW at 1,000 volts, add up to 200 miles of range in 15 minutes, and come with longer cables. Khan said then that EVgo was making it easier for EV drivers to find convenient fast charging. The release also reported that demand on the EVgo network had risen more than 700% in three years and that more than 3 million Tesla vehicles had been sold in the U.S.
EVgo ownership, pricing and navigation
Electrive’s account of the plan adds that the stations carry EVgo Superchargers branding, that EVgo owns them and sets pricing, and that each site can have up to 20 stalls, mostly at retail and restaurant destinations. They appear in Tesla vehicles’ navigation and can be reached through the Tesla Trip Planner. Construction was scheduled to begin in the fall, with first sites due to operate in the second half of 2026, so Chicago landed inside the window the company gave.
EVgo’s August release also pointed to its next-generation charging architecture, developed at the El Segundo Innovation Lab in California and expected to be installed starting by year-end. That work runs alongside the Tesla hardware instead of replacing it, so the company is buying proven cabinets while it finishes its own design.
The 12-stall count is short of the 20-stall ceiling electrive describes, which fits a first location meant to prove the model. EVgo has not said in the material reviewed how many Tesla drivers it expects at the site, how much each session will cost, or whether Chicago is typical of the sites that follow, and Tesla’s role appears limited to supplying equipment and navigation listings.
Regency Centers sites and the 500-station NACS target
The first Tesla-powered EVgo stations are set to sit at grocery and shopping-center properties owned by Regency Centers, according to InsideEVs, and the expansion is expected to add hundreds more Supercharger stalls nationwide. That fits EVgo’s Sept. 9 partnership release, which promised more than 400 new stalls at Regency locations. Scott Levitan, EVgo’s executive vice president of growth, and Mark Peternell, Regency’s vice president of sustainability, are both quoted there. That release does not mention Tesla Superchargers or name Chicago, listing Illinois among the target states.
Electrek’s coverage of the Regency deal supplies the retail logic. Regency owns or operates more than 480 U.S. centers, over 80% of them anchored by a major grocery store, and the new chargers could reach 24 per site. The 400-plus additions would raise Regency’s overall charging footprint by more than 20%, per the companies, and EVgo says about half of drivers who stop to charge go into a nearby store or restaurant. EVgo installed its first charger at a Regency property in 2020 and now runs more than 150 stalls at its shopping centers.
The same Electrek report lists Colorado, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia among the planned states, with no construction timeline. A Chicago opening therefore fits Illinois on that list, although neither the release nor the report ties the Regency stalls to Tesla hardware.
Separately, InsideEVs says EVgo is on track to reach 500 NACS-enabled stations nationwide, a count that excludes the Supercharger sites, and that the company wants every station built after 2023 to have at least one NACS plug within two years. The EV Report summarized the broader plan, including EVgo’s expectation of more than 35 NACS-equipped models by the end of 2026.
What remains open is scale. EVgo has said hundreds of Supercharger stalls are coming, yet only one 12-stall location is confirmed open in the reporting reviewed, and neither the next opening date nor the next city has been announced. The Aug. 5 release had promised first sites in the second half of 2026, and the Regency release carries no Tesla-specific schedule, so the pace of the rollout after Chicago is the figure worth watching in the months ahead.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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