The Megacharger network is filling in fast. Texas is already dominant. Michigan is about to become the 4th state on the map.The Megacharger Map Just Grew Again And Michigan's About to Join the Party
Houston's getting a new Tesla Semi charging station. Nothing shocking there. Texas has been leading this buildout for a while now. But zoom out a little, because the more interesting story this week isn't the map filling in where you'd expect. It's the state that isn't on it yet.
We just added a new entry to our Charging Map a TDLR filing registered May 21 for a Megacharger site at the Swift Truck Stop owned by Walker Sims Oil Company on Spencer Road (that's FM 529 to locals), about a mile and a half off US-290 in northwest Houston. Construction's slated to start June 22, with a completion date of June 25, 2027 a full year build, which tracks with what we've seen on similar permits in Dallas and Laredo. No confirmed stall count yet, since the filing only covers electrical infrastructure scope, but the pattern here is familiar by now: quiet paperwork today, a working charger a year or so out. (Props always to the legend @MarcoRPi1 on X )
Las Vegas Is Under Active Construction David Moss Has the Footage
While Houston is still in the permit stage, Las Vegas is already in the ground. @DavidMoss on X someone we've featured before for his incredible ACT Expo coverage and his now-legendary ride in the production Semi ("Man I'm so speechless") posted footage on July 30, 2026 showing the latest construction progress on the Las Vegas Megacharger site:
"Here is latest progress of this Megacharger construction in Las Vegas, NV 7/30/26" " No Diesel Today "— @DavidMoss on X
David has been one of the best community eyes on the Tesla Semi program consistently , if it's happening in the Semi world and David is in the area, you're getting footage. Follow him.
Las Vegas landing a Megacharger makes obvious sense geographically. It sits on the freight corridor between Southern California ports and the interior Southwest, and it's less than an hour from the Tesla Semi factory in Sparks, Nevada. A charging stop in Vegas on a California-to-Arizona or California-to-Texas run is exactly the kind of position a network needs to make long-haul electric freight viable. The proximity to Giga Nevada also means Tesla's own logistics fleet has easy access to the corridor it operates every day.
Michigan Just Announced It's Joining And the Timing Isn't Random
Michigan currently has zero Tesla Semi charging locations. That's about to change and the freight case is stronger than most people realize.Here's the story that caught our attention most this week. At the inaugural Multi-Modal eMobility Summit at Grosse Ile Municipal Airport 20 miles south of Detroit . Tesla representatives confirmed publicly that Semi charging infrastructure is coming to Metro Detroit. Site surveys are already underway and Tesla is working with DTE Energy on specific locations.
Michigan currently has zero Tesla Semi charging locations. It's not even among the 3 states on the public Megacharger map right now. This announcement makes it the 4th state to enter the picture.
The summit itself was a deliberate venue choice , Grosse Ile is accessible by air, land, and water, which let organizers park a Tesla Semi next to electric boats on the Detroit River. The guest list included DTE Energy, Clean Fuels Michigan, NextEnergy, and Tesla in the same room with fleet operators, utilities, researchers, and transportation leaders. Airport director Janel MacNee framed it exactly right:
"It's going to take all of us. It's going to take collaboration across the state of Michigan to move innovation forward."
She's not wrong. And the presence of that coalition in one room utilities, clean fuels organizations, and Tesla is what makes this feel different from a press release.
Why Michigan specifically matters is a question worth actually answering. This isn't Tesla filling in a nice-to-have market. Michigan sits on some of the busiest international freight lanes in North America the border crossings into Ontario feed traffic into one of the most productive manufacturing and logistics corridors on the continent. Tesla's own representatives made the point directly at the summit: Michigan's freight volume and cross-border position make it worth building for, not just worth mentioning.
The mandatory 30-minute HOS rest break aligning with 60% range recovery at 1.2MW is a pitch that writes itself for Michigan fleet operators running border freight. You're stopping anyway. Now the stop means something. Jason Gies as Business Development lead for the Semi program is based in Troy, Michigan and sits on the board of Clean Fuels Michigan ,one of the co-hosts of the Grosse Ile summit where Tesla just announced Michigan charging infrastructure. His resume is the right background for exactly this kind of market. With development stops at Hendrickson, AxleTech, Navistar, and ABB E-mobility (where he was VP of Global OEMs and North American Fleet Solutions) before running North American operations at Windrose. A legend in the commercial vehicle industry from the inside, he knows Michigan's fleet landscape.
And personally responsible for possibly the most EPIC Semi picture to date.
What the Map Actually Looks Like Right Now
Here's where things stand across the network right now:Open:
Ontario, CA (E Guasti Rd) — 750 kW — first public Megacharger outside a factory
Stockton, CA — 1.2 MW
Bloomington, CA — 1.2 MW, 6 stalls (Electrification Coalition ribbon cutting)
Under construction / permitted — Texas alone:
Dallas, TX — Bonnie View Rd
Irving, TX — W Airport Fwy (8 stalls)
Laredo, TX — Flying J, I-35 (est. June 2027)
Midland, TX — FM 1788
Houston, TX — FM 529 Swift Stop (est. June 2027) ← NEW
San Antonio, TX — Foster Rd (est. May 2027)
Under construction — Nevada:
Las Vegas, NV — active construction confirmed July 30 by @DavidMoss ← LIVE FOOTAGE
Announced / surveying:
Metro Detroit, MI — working with DTE Energy, site surveys underway ← 4th state
Coming soon — California:
Rancho Dominguez, CA — Forum Mobility depot, 10 Tesla MCS + 4 Flex + 6 Kempower
Port of Oakland, CA — Forum Mobility, 4 Tesla MCS + 2 Kempower
The full map with addresses, permit numbers, and status for every location lives on our Tesla Semi Charging page →. We update it every time a new filing surfaces or a permit moves to construction.
What This Adds Up To
The Megacharger buildout in 2026 is not moving at the speed of a press release it's moving at the speed of TDLR filings and construction permits and community organizers booking a waterfront airport. That pace is actually faster and more durable than the alternative.
Texas locations dominates the map because I-35 and the border corridors are where the freight demand is clearest and the fleet commitment is most advanced. California holds the port infrastructure that makes depot charging at Forum Mobility's Rancho Dominguez site the most important square mile in electric freight right now. Nevada connects the factory to the grid it operates within. And Michigan with its border crossings, its manufacturing base, its freight density, and now its DTE Energy partnership is about to become the most interesting new entry on the map.
Fleet operators trying to understand what routes are viable for the Tesla Semi today and in the next 12 months should spend time on our Range & Route Calculator → — it models real Megacharger stop locations, payload, terrain, and charging time so you can see what a run actually looks like before you commit to it.
And for everything on the confirmed fleet order book, specs, and real-world efficiency data from every pilot operator: Tesla Semi Specs & Orders →.
Props to @DavidMoss for the Las Vegas construction footage. Follow him on X .Consistently one of the best community eyes on this program. Source: Fuad Shalhout, MLive.com for Michigan reporting.
Have a permit filing, construction sighting, or Megacharger tip? contact@teslasemi.com or tag @mrjavierjose on X.
