EVgo Opens 12-Stall Tesla Supercharger Site Near Downtown Chicago

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EVgo has opened its first EVgo Supercharger site near downtown Chicago, a 12-stall station that kicks off what the company calls the first dozen of hundreds of stalls it plans to add in high-demand locations nationwide.

Los Angeles-based EVgo said Thursday the Illinois launch is part of a push to pull more NACS drivers onto its network, including Tesla owners and other brands that adopted Tesla’s connector. That sits alongside Tesla’s Supercharger for Business program, which lets companies buy and host Tesla Superchargers while Tesla runs operations and uptime.

“Deploying our first EVgo Supercharger marks an important milestone in growing our customer base while supporting the EV industry’s transition to NACS,” said Badar Khan, EVgo CEO. “By serving both Tesla and non-Tesla NACS drivers, we’re doubling EVgo’s addressable market and continuing to meet EV drivers where they are and where they want to charge.”

Initial stations will sit at grocery-anchored properties owned by Regency Centers, a longtime EVgo partner, so drivers can shop or run errands while they charge. The first Illinois site serves both NACS and CCS vehicles through Magic Dock without a personal adapter.

Illinois EV registrations are up nearly 60 percent over the last two years, according to Illinois Secretary of State counts cited in the release. EVgo began adding NACS connectors to its own network in 2025 and expects 500 NACS stalls nationwide by year-end, on top of the Supercharger buildout.

Plans call for a NACS connector at every 2023-vintage and newer EVgo site within two years, extending a path it sketched when it first committed to Tesla’s connector. EVgo Superchargers already show up in Tesla’s Trip Planner and in-car navigation, and EVgo NACS stalls began appearing in Tesla nav in early September once drivers enable third-party charging.

Commercial hosts keep joining. Tesla has been courting them with public Supercharger for Business pricing tools, and chains such as Wawa already opened owned Supercharger sites under the same model.

Thursday’s release does not name the street address, per-stall power rating, pricing, or which cities get the next Regency Supercharger lots. It also skips how many of those planned hundreds of stalls open this year versus next.

Tesla drivers who already flipped on third-party charging can find the new Chicago stalls in the car’s nav and Trip Planner without a scavenger hunt. How many more Regency grocery lots light up with EVgo Superchargers before those hundreds feel real?