EVgo opens its first Tesla Superchargers, with hundreds more planned

EVgo has opened its first Tesla Supercharger station, a 12-stall fast-charging site set in a grocery store parking lot in Chicago. The location is fitted with both NACS and CCS plugs, meaning it can serve Teslas and other electric cars without a native Tesla connector. It is the first piece of a much larger plan: EVgo intends to add hundreds of Tesla Supercharger stalls across the United States.

The significance goes beyond one parking lot. Tesla's charging hardware has long been treated as a walled garden for its own vehicles, and this opening shows the NACS plug gradually becoming a shared industry standard rather than a brand-exclusive one. For drivers, the