Welcome back to EV News Daily. Coming up today, Walmart and Sainsbury's own brand of their charging networks.

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put this show on the air, get the episodes as soon as they're ready and ad-free. Be like them by clicking on a link in the show notes. We'll kick off with that news about Walmart, seeming to have quietly launched their own network of self-branded EV charging stations.

The first one that I could find on PlugShare was located in Texas at the Crossroads, Texas Super Center.

And it follows Walmart's promise last year to install EV charging stations at numerous

EU-US locations, which until now, pretty much always electrify America. Say what you will about

that network. But when Walmart say we're going to go big on EV charging, they're going to be

self-branded charges, we'll take control of them in-house. They're not going to do it

half-heartedly. At least I don't think so anyway. I think they're going to go big, and I think

you're going to find these everywhere very soon. The new charging stations are listed on Plugshare,

which says, cannot be activated with a charge point card or app, download the Walmart app. So

scan the QR code, get the Walmart app at the minute. They're not really

heavily promoting them yet. So like I say, perhaps a soft launch, but I think maybe I'm more

excited than the average person about this. I think a massive name like Walmart, self-branding

their own network is actually a big deal if they really go all in with this. Now, having a look at

PlugShare, there's a user called Shane who wrote four

times 150 kilowatt stations that actually work. Don't let the text on screen confuse you.

Scan the QR code. Use the Walmart app to charge for free. The ChargePoint Express Plus units,

as far as I know, can do 200 kilowatts, not 150 in that setup that they've got there.

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