EVgo is more than tripling its footprint at Regency Centers properties, with plans to install over 400 new fast-charging stalls at grocery-anchored shopping centers across the country. The expansion, unveiled September 9, builds on a partnership between the two companies that dates back to 2020 and already includes more than 150 charging stalls at Regency locations nationwide.
A Bigger Bet on Grocery-Store Charging
According to a joint announcement covered by Los Angeles Business Journal, El Segundo-based EVgo plans to install and operate up to 24 high-power chargers at each new Regency site, with markets named in Colorado, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia, plus additional states. Jacksonville, Florida-based Regency Centers is a shopping center developer and owner whose properties in this expansion are anchored by major grocery stores. Per a release distributed via GlobeNewswire, the new stalls are expected to increase Regency's EV infrastructure footprint by more than 20%.
The chargers themselves are built for speed: EVgo says its high-power units are capable of delivering a full charge in as little as 15 minutes, though the exact time depends on the vehicle's make and model, the same release notes. That speed matters for a strategy built around grocery runs rather than long road trips — the average American household visits a grocery store two to three times a week with an average dwell time of 23 minutes, per the announcement's citation of Food Institute data.
Why Grocery Stores, Specifically
Scott Levitan, an EVgo executive quoted in the announcement, said EV drivers are looking for convenient charging options where they already spend their time, like grocery-anchored shopping centers. That framing lines up with broader utilization data: fast-charging stations located near grocery stores saw a median of 42 charging sessions per day, the highest utilization of any amenity type tracked in a 2026 report from Electric Era, which analyzed more than 4,100 open-network fast-charging stations. The same report found stations with 11 or more nearby amenities saw a median of 28 sessions per day, compared with just 3 sessions for stations with no nearby amenities at all — and separately found reliable stations saw a median of 17 sessions per day versus 3 for unreliable ones.
The focus on grocery-anchored centers specifically was also flagged by InsideEVs, which reported the expansion is targeting Regency centers with grocery stores as anchors. InsideEVs also noted that EVgo announced a separate deal in August to add at least 500 more stalls through a partnership with Brixmor Property Group, suggesting retail-anchored charging is becoming a bigger piece of EVgo's national strategy beyond just Regency.
Part of a Broader Retail Charging Push
The Regency expansion arrives amid a wider industry trend of retailers building EV chargers on their own real estate even as federal incentives shrink and some automakers slow their EV rollout plans, according to Bisnow. The outlet reported that operators added 4,382 new charging ports across 806 stations nationwide in the second quarter of 2026, pushing the national fast-charging port count to just under 78,000, while charging sessions rose 29% to 3.5 million in June. Bisnow's reporting frames the appeal to retailers plainly: chargers extend dwell time, boost repeat visits and unlock customer-behavior data — the same logic underpinning EVgo and Regency's grocery-store focus.
Walmart has been pursuing a parallel strategy, according to the same Bisnow report, having recently announced its 100th fast-charging location at a store in Monument, Colorado, with plans for thousands more locations by 2030. The EVgo-Regency partnership has grown steadily since its 2020 start; by mid-2024 the two companies had opened more than 120 public fast-charging stalls at roughly 40 Regency properties across 10 states, according to a prior release from EVgo. Neither company has disclosed the cost of installing the more than 400 new stalls now planned.
