EVwire brief: Electric Son has opened a new Tesla Supercharger site in Houston, Texas, featuring four V4 Supercharger posts capable of charging compatible vehicles at up to 325 kW.
Located at 10626 W Sam Houston Parkway N, the station, Electric Son Station #1, is powered by a Tesla V3.5 cabinet and went live on September 11. It went live on September 11 and appeared in Tesla's in-car navigation the next day.
Electric Son founder and Project Lead Matt Simpson told EVwire that he believes the site is the first independently owned Supercharger in Houston. The prices at the site vary from $0.38-$0.44/kWh currently based on the time of day.
Quite notably, the site also hosts an (electric) coffee truck on weekdays.
Here are some photos of the site:
Electric Son Station #1. (Source: Matt Simpson)
Electric Son Station #1. (Source: Matt Simpson)
Electric Son Station #1. (Source: Matt Simpson)
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Electric Son LLC develops and operates EV charging infrastructure across Texas, with a focus on high-traffic areas where charging demand is growing. The Houston-based company says it operates multiple active charging sites and is expanding its footprint across Houston and surrounding markets, while also focusing on practical EV battery safety education.
Simpson says he took the property from an undeveloped lot through engineering, permitting, utility coordination, construction, and activation himself. Beyond charging, Electric Son is building out the customer experience. Coffee Fellows' all-electric mobile cafe is now on-site Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., there's an onsite portable restroom, and he's working on adding customer Wi-Fi through Starlink.
It takes a lot of effort to turn undeveloped land into this, Simpson highlighted. (Source: Matt Simpson)
In a comment to EVwire, Simpson highlighted that he is really putting a lot of effort into the site’s customer experience:
"I'm building Electric Son around the customer experience. Reliable charging is the foundation, but I want this to be somewhere people enjoy stopping. Partnering with Coffee Fellows to bring an electric coffee truck onsite is a big part of that vision."
The coffee truck runs on an all-electric GM BrightDrop van, the same type of vehicle Coffee Fellows has been rolling out as part of its wider mobile-cafe push in the Houston area. It's open to the surrounding neighborhood too: nearby office tenants Global Healing and Asurion have both told Electric Son they're excited about it, and the 400-unit Allora Fallbrook apartment community going up directly behind the site is expected to open this November.
Electric Son Station No.#1 charges both vehicles and people, because why not? The Brightdrop van is a nice touch. (Source: Matt Simpson)
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A screenshot of the site on Tesla’s app showing pricing
Context:
Electric Son's independent-ownership pitch fits into the ongoing expansion of Tesla's Supercharger for Business program, which launched in September 2025. Under the program, third parties can buy, own, and operate their own Tesla Supercharger stations. Hosts fund the installation, pay for electricity, set their own retail prices, and can custom-brand the stalls, while Tesla supplies the hardware, runs the software, handles commissioning, and keeps the network running behind the scenes for a flat fee.
Other independent operators have built entire businesses around that model. United Chargers Network (UCN), for instance, develops, owns, and operates its own Tesla Supercharger sites at commercial properties with zero upfront capital from the host, and has gone a step further by building its own EV Charging Lounges to give drivers somewhere to spend their charging time.
Source: Matt Simpson in comments to EVwire, Electric Son, Culture Map Houston
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