The Portland metro area and Oregon have a rich history of supporting electric vehicle charging with the West Coast Electric Highway and the Electric Avenue stations in the city’s downtown area. As of March 2020, the Portland area has more than 1,200 public EV charging stations, of which 106 units are free. And charging infrastructure is still tracking with more than 70% year-over-year growth in 2019, which resulted in 223 new charging stations in the Portland area, including the Vancouver suburbs, Beaverton and Hillsboro.

The largest charging network in the Northwest is Blink Charging Company and its 300 stations. Blink is one of the first networks to add DC fast charging stations to the Portland metro area and now has been joined by the likes of Tesla, ChargePoint, SemaConnect, Webasto, Electrify America and EVgo, to name a few. Portland has a total of 137 DC Fast Chargers, 30 of which are Tesla Superchargers. Power ratings for these fast chargers vary across Portland, from 22 to 350 kW. A Walmart Supercenter Electrify America station installed in 2019 in nearby Vancouver offers 350 kW. Currently, no electric car can receive 350 kW but the Porsche Taycan is the highest rated at 270 kW. Tesla has released its own next generation technology, called V3, and it offers a power rating as high as 250 kW, along with no load sharing between charging stations.