Costco is installing battery-backed 200/400 kW Electric Era DC fast charging stations at its newly constructed store in Lawrence, Kansas, scheduled to open in October 2026.

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        "excerpt": "This is one of those confusing things. OK, so you show up at one of these chargers with what.. 20% left. You plug in. It starts charging. You're now stuck there. You can't go into Costco, because you won't make it to the rotisserie chicken before the car gets to 80%.",
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        "excerpt": "Lookup Ridgefield, Wa.\nThe Costco is .49, MB charger is .44, tesla is .28-.50.",
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        "excerpt": "Looks like those are the Electric Era DCFC https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1144824_costco-jumps-back-into-ev-fast-charging-puts-their-brand-on-it",
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        "excerpt": "Historically Costco chargers are not competitively priced EA chargers. Very disappointing and not representative of the Costco brand imo . Wish they'd switch to first party and use Alpitronic or Supercharger for Business (although latter would probably not let them require memberships but who knows)",
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        "author": "FlintHillsSky",
        "excerpt": "That’s great news. I was planning to drive back to my home town in my Ioniq 5 for a long visit but the limited charging was frustrating. This will help a lot.",
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      "[post] They look like the 200/400 kW stations made by Electric Era.",
      "[comment u/nacr0n] Looks like those are the Electric Era DCFC https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1144824_costco-jumps-back-into-ev-fast-charging-puts-their-brand-on-it"
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