Canada’s largest EV Supercharger station opens in Ontario

The location in Ajax, just east of Toronto, boasts some 44 stalls, each offering charging speeds of up to 325 kW

- Tesla just opened up its largest Supercharger station in Canada, in Ajax, Ontario - The location boasts room for 44 electric vehicles to charge simultaneously - A location in Richmond, B.C. plays boasts 40 spaces at a Supercharger in Richmond Electric-vehicle owners in Ontario now have a new place at which to fast-charge their car. A brand-new Tesla Supercharger location, billed as the biggest in Canada, has opened in Ajax, Ontario, just east of Toronto.

Located near Highway 401, the station sees a total of 44 spaces welcome EV drivers, with the capability to juice an EV at an advertised speed of 325 kW worth of electricity. That said, most owners know they’re unlikely to force-feed that amount of power into an electric vehicle during its entire charging session, especially if all 44 units are occupied. Some EVs can’t even accept such a flow of electricity, given onboard limitations.

Still, it’s better to have the capacity and not need it. Talking heads in the area say this new station will take the pressure of nearby charging points that have become congested. And as more car companies around the world begin to build more EVs with the NACS (Tesla-style) charging port, facilities like this one in Ajax will help reduce the need for annoying adapters; most people whose electric vehicle has a CCS port now find themselves with such a device tucked in their car’s trunk.

Most newly built Superchargers can provide electricity to EVs from non-Tesla brands, and that is the case here, with commenters on social media describing charging up machines like a Chevrolet Bolt. A video posted to Reddit from opening day also showed rigs like the Kia EV9 parked at the location. The vast majority of machines were Tesla-branded, of course, including a couple of hulking Cybertrucks.

The site sits in the middle of a plaza called Durham Centre, a space surrounded by retail outlets ranging from restaurants to big-box stores like Costco. This will be convenient for EV owners plugging cars in at this new location, especially since the 325-kW rating is light-years away from the initial salvo of 50-kW fast chargers that flummoxed and often stymied people trying to get electricity into an electric vehicle. That amount of power demand did allegedly cause some problems during the site’s construction.

Utility concerns are said to have been part of the reason it took over a year for the location to be completed. The next-biggest EV charging station in Canada lies in Richmond, B.C., and boasts about 40 stalls.