Hardee’s restaurants now have EV fast charging, starting with a location in Temple, Georgia, and Carl’s Jr. sites are slated to follow. Energized EV opened four fast-charging ports at the restaurant on Carrollton Street, the first step in a rollout meant to reach Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. across the United States. No site count and no schedule have been announced.
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Energized EV’s stated approach is to install chargers where drivers already stop, and a fast-food parking lot in Carroll County fits that description. The pairing gives a charging company a host with existing foot traffic and gives the restaurant operator a reason for EV owners to stay through a meal.
Four ports at 587 Carrollton Street
According to Electrek’s report on the opening, the Temple site sits at 587 Carrollton Street, Georgia 30179, and carries both NACS and CCS1 connectors. The hardware is two dual-port XCharge C7 DC fast chargers, each rated at 240 kW, with software supplied by Monta. A community charger map entry lists the same station as four fast connectors, two CCS and two Tesla-style, all at 240 kW, and shows it was added to the map in August 2026.
XCharge describes the C7 as a cabinet that tops out at 400 kW, takes 480-volt three-phase input and can be ordered with CCS or NACS plugs. Its product page for the C7 also says a feature called Dynamic Load Management automatically adjusts output between the two connectors to improve each driver’s experience. In practice that means two cars plugged into one cabinet will share power, so the 240 kW rating is a ceiling and not a guaranteed speed for every session.
Pricing for Temple was not part of the announcement. Neither a per-kilowatt-hour rate nor an idle fee appeared in the material that Electrek summarized, so drivers will learn the cost only when the stalls show it on site or in a payment app. That gap matters because restaurant-hosted chargers set their own rates, and a 240 kW rating says nothing about whether a session will cost more or less than a highway-corridor competitor charges nearby.
Connector choice is worth noting. A site with both NACS and CCS1 plugs serves Tesla owners and most other EV brands without an adapter, which matters for a roadside restaurant whose customers could be driving anything. Each dual-port cabinet feeds two stalls, so the four ports at Temple make a small hub by highway standards: enough for a handful of cars at once, but short of the larger multi-bay sites that fuel-station chains now build.
CKE Restaurants and Energized EV on the rollout
Mike Darger, vice president of facilities and maintenance at CKE Restaurants, the parent of both brands, said that adding chargers gives EV drivers a convenient place to stop, recharge and eat. He added that the company looks forward to building on the first opening as more locations come online. Devin Grandis, president and chief executive of Energized EV, called Temple the beginning of a much larger expansion.
Energy & Environmental Design Services LLC, known as E&EDS, is the program’s exclusive installer. Its work covers charging infrastructure design, installation and maintenance as well as electrical contracting, which places the company at the center of the buildout from design through upkeep. The same firm is also tied to the Bojangles project, so the installer is working on both projects.
Restaurant chargers are becoming a pattern
E&EDS has appeared in a similar project before. The same installer handled the first Bojangles charging station at 4401 Ogeechee Road in Savannah, Georgia, which the chain announced in a May 2026 release alongside XLR8 America. That site offers Level 2 and DC fast charging, and Bojangles called Savannah the first step in a planned national rollout, and its chief information officer, Richard Del Valle, said that with EV charging, time becomes an asset. Electrek later reported that a second Bojangles site in Charlotte was due before the end of 2026, and that The New York Times had cited a plan for 85 chargers by early 2027.
The logic is dwell time. Drivers who plug in typically stay 20 to 40 minutes, and a restaurant gets a customer who might otherwise have stopped elsewhere. Waffle House took a related route in 2025 when bp pulse agreed to install 400 kW chargers at select restaurants in Texas, Georgia and Florida, with six bays per site and a mix of CCS and NACS connectors.
For Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr., the open questions are numeric. How many of the chains’ restaurants will receive chargers, when the first Carl’s Jr. site opens, and what drivers will pay per kilowatt-hour all remain unannounced. Temple is a working example with four ports, not yet a program with a published map, and the next confirmed detail will likely come from CKE Restaurants or Energized EV when a second address is named. Until then, the Georgia site is the only Hardee’s charging location the sources describe.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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