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EV charging stations in District of Columbia

4,765 charging locations and 15,474 ports across 11 cities and towns, 662 of them DC fast.

Charging in District of Columbia

Washington has a dense charging map for its size. Because the district is only a few miles across, the neighborhood counts overlap heavily: searching from Foggy Bottom, Downtown or Mount Vernon Triangle will surface many of the same garages. Most of the city has something within a short walk.

The catch is speed. Only a small fraction of ports are DC fast, so this is overwhelmingly a Level 2 city built around hotel, office and residential garages where cars sit for hours. Blink Charging and ChargePoint dominate, with Tesla, AmpUp and Flash Charging also on the map.

On the road

There is no real highway driving inside the district. I-395 and I-295 cut through toward the Beltway, and traffic funnels over the Potomac bridges into Virginia or up New York and Rhode Island Avenues into Maryland. For a fast charge before a long drive, you are usually better off crossing into Arlington, Alexandria or the Maryland suburbs than hunting for one inside the city.

Plugs and payment

J1772 covers the Level 2 estate, and the handful of fast sites split between CCS1 and NACS, with CHAdeMO a legacy connector you should not count on. Garage units are almost always cable-attached. Payment is a mix of tap-to-pay and network apps, so having two or three accounts already set up saves a lot of time.

Three things to know

Most charging sits inside paid parking garages, so budget for the parking fee and not just the electricity.
Street parking rarely includes charging, so residents are better off finding a garage plan than hunting curbside.
Cross into Virginia or Maryland for DC fast before a road trip; the district has very few of them.

Cities in District of Columbia

Towns smaller than 20,000 residents are not listed here, but the live map covers every public charger in District of Columbia: search for the town or allow location access.