EVwire Brief: to a keen eye, bp Pulse’s post on LinkedIn today exposed a new interesting level that their 2023 $100M deal with Tesla has arrived to: bp Pulse has started installing Tesla MCS chargers at its ultrafast EV truck charging depots.
The first of such depots is now about to go live at their new Ontario, California site, with 2x 750kW Tesla MCS pull-through bays, installed next to 4× 400kW (looks like Alpitronic) CCS pull-through bays.
Here’s how bp Pulse announced their newest truck depot:
Big news for electric class 6-8 truck (electric trucks) drivers & fleet operators in Southern California — especially those in Ontario, CA. 🚚
Our ultrafast EV truck charging station will soon be live and open to the public!⚡
What you can expect:
• Ultrafast chargers: Four 400 kW CCS pull-through bays and two 750kW Tesla MCS pull-through bays
• Reliable service: Charging points on key transport routes with high uptime targets & no blocking fees
This is our first bp pulse electric truck charging site on the go in the US, with ambitions to further grow!
The pull-through MCS chargers are actually visible on the image if zooming in:
UPDATE: The OG of discovering Tesla permits, @MarcoRPi1 on X, found more images of the pilot site along with the renders recently:
Context:
Tesla has been opening up its Supercharging ecosystem in several ways over the past few years, in addition to the quite-quiet-so-far $100M deal with bp pulse and a significant rollout with EV On the Move in the UK.
One of the paths is the introduction of NACS and subsequent opening of the Supercharging network in the US (currently 36.5k+ Stalls for Teslas available, of which ~25k can be used by automakers enrolled in NACS program with adapter, or with native NACS ports).
Nearly all automakers are now supported, with Stellantis the only one still marked ‘coming soon’ on the dedicated Tesla.com/NACS page. We’ve recently reported that Stellantis went a bit beyond and even included NACS adoption also in Korea and Japan.
The other path is the recent launch of Supercharger for Business, where any third party can purchase Superchargers and Tesla’s service that comes with it, and launch on their own terms while reaping the benefits of ultra-reliability and also discoverability in Tesla’s charging network.
Some notable recent launches using this have been the Suncoast Charging launch with four beautifully-wrapped Superchargers in Florida (as we reported here, and the most recent addition in the wonderful destination-in-itself, next to Pie Safe bakery in Deary, Idaho, by Isaac French.
Suncoast Charging animal wraps
The Pie Safe Bakery
Meanwhile, Tesla is no doubt ramping up the Semi charger deployments — several under permits across states now — as it is about to complete its massive Semi production plant next to Giga Nevada.
The Semi factory is designed for high-volume production of the electric semi-truck, with volume ramp-up targeted for 2026, aiming for 50,000 units annually.
Here’s a look inside and some renders from July 2025:
Currently actively producing on the pilot lines and delivering to early customers (mostly pilots)
Image by the OG Semi factory drone watcher, Zanegler
Tesla also just recently showed off Tesla engineers hitting 1,206 kW on the Tesla Semi Megacharger:
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