AUSTIN, Texas — Tesla is bringing its biggest charging site on the East Coast to one of the hardest places in America to own an electric car: New York City. The company is building a 64-to-68-stall Supercharger in the Maspeth section of Queens, a station large enough to tie for the largest on the entire Eastern Seaboard.
At that size, the Queens site would match the 68-stall Supercharger in Halifax, North Carolina, currently the biggest on the East Coast. It is a striking commitment of capacity for a dense urban borough, and it reflects how seriously Tesla is treating charging access in a city where finding a plug can be the single most frustrating part of EV ownership. The project follows Tesla''s recent move to build a 124-stall V4 Supercharger in San Francisco, another mega-site aimed at a high-traffic metro.
Built for a City That Needs It
The station will sit at 48-26 54th Road in Maspeth, a neighborhood with Interstate 495 running through it — an ideal spot for drivers to hop off the highway and charge before continuing to Long Island or into Manhattan. Two of the stalls will be pull-through spaces designed for EVs towing trailers, a feature Tesla has added at newer sites as electric vehicles take on more utility duties.
Manhattan itself has only about five Supercharger locations, most with just four plugs each, leaving the outer boroughs to carry the load. Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn have become hotspots for charging build-out simply because they offer the real estate that a large station requires. For the city''s huge population of ride-hail drivers — many of whom have switched to EVs under local zero-emissions incentives — reliable fast charging is essential, and a 60-plus-stall hub meaningfully expands the available supply.
Part of a Broader Push
The Queens project is the latest sign that Tesla is scaling its charging network with the same ambition it brings to vehicles and energy. The company has steadily targeted high-density, high-traffic corridors with large-format sites, prioritizing the places where charging anxiety is most acute. It has also been widening what its cars can do at home and on the road, from congestion-easing urban stations to features like the new vehicle-to-load power adapter for the Model Y.
New York City has laid out plans for a zero-emissions municipal fleet, dozens of new fast chargers and dedicated charging depots, and Tesla''s Maspeth station slots neatly into that vision. As Teslarati reported, the site underscores a simple point: as EV adoption deepens in America''s densest city, Tesla intends to make sure there are enough plugs to keep everyone moving.
