Canada continues to improve its national EV infrastructure, adding nearly 100 new stations and 400 new charging ports by the third quarter of 2026.
Paren, a data intelligence company focused on North American electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, has released its “State of the EV Charging Industry” report for Q3 2026, which focuses on the current quarterly situation of Canada’s EV charging infrastructure.
To begin with, the report notes that Canada added 103 new stations and 391 new charging stations in Q3 2026, bringing the national network to 2,740 stations and 9,615 fast charging ports year over year. That’s up from 2,275 stations and 7,585 ports in Q3 2025. Of the 103 new stations, 93 were new sites, and 10 were existing stations adding ports, compared with 77 new sites and 24 expansions in Q2 2026.
Interestingly, Paren notes that non-Tesla stations averaged 3.2 new ports per site in Q3, in line with last quarter. In contrast, Tesla stations average 9.8 new ports per site. This is still a wide margin over non-Tesla stations, but down significantly from 16.3 new ports per station last quarter and the lowest since Q1 of 2026, when Tesla added only 10.6 ports per station.
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Continuing with Tesla, Paren notes that the automaker installed 88 of the 391 new ports of the quarter (22.5 percent, down from 24.4 percent in Q2), and gradually loses share of the amount of deployed ports – now holds less than a third of Canada’s DC Fast Charging (DCFC. 2025) despite its all-time amount of ports increased from 2,729 to 3,091.
Rounding out the top three is Circuit Electrique, which added a total of 61 ports in Q3 to hold 15.6 percent of installed ports, and ChargePoint, which added 41 ports to hold 10.5 percent of installed ports. Other charging networks, essentially just a combined 27 networks outside the top 10, hold 1,697 ports in total (17.6 percent of the base) and added 90 ports in Q3 (23.0 percent).
Provincially, Paren noted that eight provinces and territories added at least one station in Q3, up from seven last quarter. However, 86.4 percent of the stations were added in three provinces; Quebec added the most stations with 49 (up from 44 in Q2), and Ontario added 22 (up from 21 in Q2). British Columbia added only 18 this quarter, down from 21 in Q2.
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Interestingly, British Columbia (13.1 percent) and Ontario (11.5 percent) have the highest charger usage, with PEI right behind at 10.1 percent. Paren also noted that the Northwest Territories have the lowest usage at 0.3 percent, with Yukon and Saskatchewan next close at 3.9 percent.
Source: Paren