From The Arkansas eTraveler.
Two weeks ago, five Walmart EV Charging stations near me dropped their overnight rate from $.32/kWh to $.26. I keep a record of every price at every station this network has opened since October of 2024, and a change like that almost never happens. So I went looking for the rest of them.
InsideEVs asked whether Walmart EV Charging and IONNA are starting an EV fast charging price war. It is the right question, and their headline includes a question mark for a reason. I checked all 108 open Walmart locations against two years of my own pricing records, then against the national numbers from Paren and DCFC Tracker.
We are not in a price war. What is actually happening is better for you than a price war would be.
A price war needs three things: somebody cuts a price they were already charging, somebody else answers, and it happens somewhere both of them operate. In this video I test all three against the record, and then show you the pricing ladder that Walmart and IONNA have quietly built underneath every other network in the country.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 New Walmart EV Charging Prices in Bentonville, AR
01:04 We Agree (InsideEVs)
02:43 What a Price War Has to Look Like
03:13 How I track Walmart EV Charging, and why my number changed
06:08 Condition One: Did Anybody Cut?
07:53 Condition Two: Did IONNA Answer?
09:02 Condition Three: Do They Even Meet?
09:48 Maybe Walmart and IONNA are Aiming at the Incumbents
11:30 What We Have Instead: The Ladder
13:22 The Other Side of the Argument
15:45 What comes next
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THE NUMBERS IN THIS VIDEO
Walmart EV Charging, verified across all 108 open stations:
• On-peak average: $.47/kWh · Walmart+ $.42
• Off-peak average: $.29/kWh · Walmart+ $.26 (67 of 108 stations have a window)
• Daily average, weighted across 24 hours: $.42/kWh · Walmart+ $.38
• 902 stalls across 21 states, with 119 more under construction and 230 found in permits
Where everybody sits:
• EVgo $.64 · Electrify America $.61 · Tesla standard $.60
• Rivian Adventure Network $.55 · US average $.546
• Mercedes-Benz HPC $.47 · Walmart $.42 · IONNA $.36
Tesla’s member rate averages $.43/kWh. Of the eight averages I track for Walmart EV Charging, seven of them come in below it.
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SOURCES
InsideEVs, "Are Walmart And Ionna Starting An EV Fast Charging Price War? It Sure Looks Like It"
https://insideevs.com/news/805215/ionna-walmart-cheaper-prices/
Paren, US EV Fast Charging — Q2 2026
https://www.paren.app/reports/us-ev-fast-charging-q2-2026
DCFC Tracker, network and national pricing
https://dcfctracker.com
Walmart EV Charging Data Tables (my own records, updated continuously since October 2024)
https://tinyurl.com/WalmartEnergyEVs
Loren McDonald and Paren do the work the rest of us build on. If you follow this industry and you
are not reading their quarterly report, start there.
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📊 TRACK THE NETWORK YOURSELF
▶ Data & Stats Tables: https://tinyurl.com/WalmartEnergyEVs
▶ Live + Coming Soon Map: https://tinyurl.com/WalmartEVChargingMaps
▶ Wattmart Web App: https://wattmart.community
▶ Report a Permit: https://forms.gle/bQGFgZvYWtSnKG7AA
If a Walmart or IONNA station near you changes its price, tell me in the comments. The store number and the new rate is all I need, and a lot of what is in my data tables came from people watching this channel.
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Disclaimer: This video covering Walmart Energy’s EV charging network efforts is based on research, primary sources, and public records available at the time of production. It is to be used for informative or entertainment purposes only. Information may change, and new developments could emerge that are not covered in this video or may contradict its content. Viewers are encouraged to conduct their own research for the most current and accurate information.
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