ChargePoint's U.S. DC fast-charging count passed 5,000 ports in an AFDC reading, inside a national network Paren put at 80,964

ChargePoint's U.S. DC fast-charging network has moved past 5,000 ports in one published reading of federal station data. EVChargingStations.com reported on 23 October 2026 that the Alternative Fuels Data Center listed 5,004 ChargePoint DC fast-charging ports as of 22 October. The same article said that count made ChargePoint fourth by port count, after Tesla's Supercharger network, Electrify America, and EVgo, and that most of the equipment on the ChargePoint network is owned by other businesses.

This desk opened the AFDC station locator on 24 October 2026. The page is a live search tool. It did not display a saved total for 22 October, and the public data-service host used to query station counts did not resolve from this desk's network. The 5,004 figure is that outlet's dated reading of AFDC. It is not a number re-counted here on 24 October.

The same article gives the Level 2 side of ChargePoint's U.S. footprint. It says AFDC listed more than 81,300 AC Level 2 ports, up from 75,000 in March 2026, and that ChargePoint's share of the country's Level 2 ports exceeds 43 percent. On the DC side, it says the port count rose by roughly 15 percent over 12 months, that AFDC shows more than 800 NACS connectors, many of them adapters on CCS1 chargers, and that 91 ports are rated at 350 kW or higher. It says most sites are at up to 150 kW, and that a typical ChargePoint site is small.

The national fast-charging total for the quarter comes from a different dataset. Paren's Q3 2026 report, dated 13 October, says the United States added 664 DC fast-charging stations and 4,106 ports in the quarter, bringing the network to 14,614 stations and more than 80,000 fast-charging ports for the first time. The same page lists 80,964 as the total of U.S. DC fast-charging ports. Electrek reported that 80,964 figure, across 14,614 locations, from the Paren report. EVwire printed the same total, and its table of Paren data sums to 80,964. Paren says that, starting with this quarter's report, station and port totals exclude retired chargers and sites, so an older report's total plus this quarter's additions will not land on 80,964.

Tesla still added the most new ports, and its share of the whole network fell. Paren says Tesla added 1,287 ports, 31.3 percent of the quarter's new ports. Including 124 ports at Supercharger for Business sites, Paren says Tesla added 1,411, or 34.4 percent. Ionna added 378, up from 182 in the second quarter, and Walmart added 344. Paren says Tesla's share of all U.S. fast-charging ports slipped from 54.3 percent in the third quarter of 2025 to 49.3 percent. EV Infrastructure News, reporting the same quarter, printed that same share move. EVwire's table lists Tesla at 39,952 all-time ports, the 49.3 percent share. Paren says Tesla's network added about 5,700 ports over the year, and that the rest of the market added more than twice as many.

ChargePoint's place depends on which table is open. EVwire's Paren table lists ChargePoint at 4,774 all-time ports, a 5.9 percent share, with 169 ports added in the quarter. In that table Electrify America is at 5,357 and EVgo at 3,997, so ChargePoint sits between them. That is not the fourth-place ranking EVChargingStations.com gave from its AFDC reading of 5,004 DC fast ports. The two numbers are 11 days and two databases apart. Paren itself warns that port counts vary because the report uses different validated sets for network size, operator share, and sessions. This story does not average 4,774 and 5,004 into one ChargePoint total.

The shape of the new sites is part of the same Paren report. It says 71 percent of ChargePoint's sites with new third-quarter ports had two ports or fewer, and that ChargePoint added 111 ports rated under 150 kW, the most of any network in that lower tier. Across all networks, Paren says 73 percent of new ports were rated at least 250 kW. Electrek, citing Paren, says urban markets received 90 percent of the quarter's new stations and rural markets received 68 of the 664 additions.

Drivers are using the larger network at about the same rate. Paren says national utilization was 15.9 percent, against 15.8 percent in the second quarter, and that charging sessions reached 50.4 million in the quarter, up 26 percent from a year earlier. On price, Paren says the national average reached $0.540 per kWh. It attributes the rise to Tesla: a non-member price up 15 percent over the year to $0.569, and a member price up 9 percent to $0.396, while the non-Tesla average held near $0.533 for five quarters. Electrek reported those same price figures from the report.

Analysis

The 5,004 and the 80,964 answer different questions. One is a single network's DC fast ports in a 22 October AFDC reading. The other is Paren's installed-base total for all public U.S. DC fast ports at the third-quarter report. A reader who adds them, or who treats Paren's 4,774 and the AFDC 5,004 as a revision of the same count, will be mixing sources Paren says are not meant to be compared that way.