Georgia now has 14 Tesla Semi charging stalls on a single freight corridor: eight at a Tesla-run Megacharger in Conley, south of Atlanta, and six at a Pilot truck stop in Ellabell, west of Savannah. Pilot announced the Ellabell site on October 8, 2026, as the first location in its heavy-duty network with Tesla, and Electrek calls it the first Megacharger at a Pilot truck stop.
Each stall is rated for up to 1.2 megawatts, a speed that Tesla says lets a Semi recover 60 percent of its charge in 30 minutes. The pair of sites gives battery-electric haulers a charger at each end of the Atlanta-to-Savannah run, and it is the first time the Megacharger network, which began in California, has reached the East Coast according to the TeslaNorth report on the Conley opening.
The two Georgia sites and their stall counts
Tesla’s own location page lists 1820 Rock Cut Road in Conley, Georgia, with eight Megachargers rated up to 1.2 MW. The page carries no status line, so the opening itself rests on a TeslaNorth report published October 8 that cites a Tesla Charging post announcing the site on October 7. That report places the site just southeast of Atlanta.
The second site is Pilot store number 1390 at 130 Interstate Exchange Way in Ellabell, just outside Savannah. In its October 8 announcement, Pilot said the site has six heavy-duty stalls built on Tesla’s V4 cabinet technology. Eight plus six is how the count reaches 14; no single document lists all 14, so the figure is a sum of two separately sourced sites.
The sums matter because the two operators describe their sites differently. Pilot counts its stalls by travel-center store number, while Tesla lists Conley by street address and customer-facing network status.
Pilot’s rollout and the next three locations
Pilot and Tesla announced the collaboration in January 2026, with plans for Megachargers along Interstate 5, Interstate 10 and other freight corridors in California, Georgia, Indiana, Nevada and Texas. Shannon Sturgil, Pilot’s senior vice president of alternative fuels, described the opening as a step that makes fleet electrification a more accessible option for long-haul transportation, and added that Pilot aims to move at the pace and preference of its customers.
The release names three sites nearing completion: Flying J number 1071 at 979 E. Paige Avenue in Tulare, California, scheduled to open October 9; Flying J number 553 at 2571 N. Front Street in Fort Stockton, Texas; and Pilot number 341 at 3812 E. Craig Road in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Each will have four to eight high-power stalls, and twelve more heavy-duty locations are under construction. CCJ Digital’s coverage adds that Pilot operates more than 900 travel centers across 43 states and five Canadian provinces.
Electrek’s description of the Ellabell site puts it about 20 miles west of Savannah on Interstate 16, while the Conley site sits about 10 miles south of downtown Atlanta near Interstates 285 and 675. Together those locations anchor the two ends of the run and leaving the 220 miles between them as the stretch Electrek uses to test the Standard Range truck against its 325-mile rating.
Semi range, spacing and the wider Megacharger network
Electrek’s report puts the two sites about 220 miles apart on Interstate 75 and Interstate 16 and lists Tesla’s Semi ratings at 325 miles for the Standard Range truck and 500 miles for the Long Range truck at 82,000 pounds. By that reckoning a Standard Range truck needs a charger at both ends to finish the roughly 440-mile round trip, which is exactly what two sites at opposite ends of the run provide.
Electrek also counts the network. Tesla’s public list shows three Megacharger sites before Ellabell, at Vernon and Bloomington in California with six stalls each and the new Conley site. With Ellabell, that makes four customer-facing sites and 26 stalls, against a Tesla Q4 2025 report that anticipated about 37 sites in 2026 and a stated aim of 46 by early 2027. Electrek’s story also notes that the January list of states changed, with New Mexico dropped and Indiana added. Stated plainly, the corridor is the first piece of a map that is still mostly unbuilt: Georgia’s 14 stalls are more than half of the 26 stalls Electrek counts nationally, and the Pilot sites planned for California, Texas and Nevada are the next ones scheduled to come online.
The gap to the target is the thing to size up: Tesla anticipated about 37 sites in 2026 and Electrek counts four customer-facing sites as of October 9. If Pilot’s three nearly finished locations open, the count reaches seven, still well short of the 2026 anticipation and the 46 sites Tesla wants by early 2027.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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