This Spring, State Of Charge‘s Tom Moloughney visited Walmart, which had announced a bold plan to deploy thousands of DC fast chargers. At the time, the Walmart EV charging network only had three sites available, including two pilot locations.

As of the beginning of November, the network has expanded to include a total of 10 locations. That’s not a bad start, as Ionna — the fastest growing new network — deployed more than 30 stations (it started a bit earlier, though).

Available Locations

Most of the Walmart charging stations (8 out of 10) are installed in Texas. The other two are in Arkansas and in Oklahoma:

• Springdale Supercenter in Arkansas (pilot location)
• Checotah Supercenter in Oklahoma
• Cross Roads Supercenter in Texas (pilot location)
• McKinney Supercenter in Texas (1st official location)
• Murphy Supercenter in Texas
• Bedford Supercenter in Texas
• Fort Worth Supercenter in Texas
• Plano Supercenter in Texas
• Westworth Village Supercenter in Texas
• North Richland Hills Supercenter in Texas

Twelve additional locations are listed as “coming soon”, including six in Texas, four in Arizona, one in Georgia, and one in Florida.

The list of upcoming locations for the Walmart EV charging network includes:

• Dallas Supercenter, Store #5147: 1521 N Cockrell Hill Rd, Dallas, TX 75211
• Dallas Supercenter, Store #2105: 4122 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX 75244
• Irving Supercenter, Store #2649: 1635 Market PI Blvd, Irving, TX 75063
• Benbrook Supercenter, Store #4509: 8840 Benbrook Blvd, Benbrook, TX 76126
• Crowley Supercenter, Store #3631: 1221 FM 1187, Crowley, TX 76036
• Sachse Supercenter, Store #5673: 8015 Woodbridge Pkwy, Sachse, TX 75048
• Mesa Supercenter, Store #1646: 6131 E Southern Ave, Mesa, AZ 85206
• Queen Creek Supercenter, Store #4451: 21055 E Rittenhouse Rd, Queen Creek, AZ 85142
• Mesa Supercenter, Store #3833: 1606 S Signal Butte Rd, Mesa, AZ 85209
• Mesa Supercenter, Store #2767: 4505 E Mckellips Rd, Mesa, AZ 85215
• Locust Grove Supercenter, Store #5709: 4949 Bill Gardner Pkwy, Locust Grove, GA 30248
• Lakeland Supercenter, Store #779: 3501 S Florida Ave, Lakeland, FL 33803

Chargers

Walmart deploys 400-kW Alpitronic HYC400 chargers (the company hinted at ABB as its second hardware supplier). The chargers feature two charging ports — one NACS (SAE J3400) and one CCS1 for maximum compatibility. It means that half of the stalls are CCS1 and the other are NACS.

We don’t have data about the number of stalls per location, but usually, there should be at least a few bays.

A Walmart DC fast-charging station. (Source: Walmart)

The Walmart app is essential for initiating a charging session and paying for charging (the payment method must be set for the user account). Pricing is displayed in the Walmart app before the start of the session (it varies by location and/or time of day) and remains locked for the duration of the session. So far, Walmart does not use credit card terminals.

We look forward to seeing how quickly the expansion of the Walmart EV charging network will progress, both in terms of the number of stations and geographically.