EV charging in San Mateo, CA

Of the 286 stations the registry lists in San Mateo, 282 are open to the public and 4 are private (fleet, workplace or residential). 3 stations are reported temporarily unavailable. The average station here has 2.7 ports, about 28% below the California average of 3.7. San Mateo holds 1% of California's 21,814 charging stations.

San Mateo has 160 DC fast ports (often called Level 3 charging) at 14 public stations. The largest are San Mateo, CA - Hillsdale Boulevard - Tesla Supercharger (40 DC fast), San Mateo, CA - Park Place - Tesla Supercharger (24 DC fast), San Mateo, CA - 1878 S Norfolk Street - Tesla Supercharger (16 DC fast) and San Mateo, CA - Bridgepointe Pkwy - Tesla Supercharger (12 DC fast). 7 of them are Tesla Supercharger sites. Across the public stations, 7 list CCS, 10 list NACS (Tesla) and 2 list CHAdeMO connectors.

Where the registry records the site type, the most common hosts are shopping center (5), parking lot (2), hotel (1), restaurant (1) and parking garage (1). 1 public station in San Mateo is tagged as a hotel or inn in the registry: San Mateo, CA - 2940 South Norfolk Street - Tesla Supercharger. 2 public stations list their pricing as free in the registry.

By station count, the networks in San Mateo are led by ChargePoint (262), Tesla Supercharger (7), Tesla Destination (6) and EVgo (5). 7 networks in all have stations here.

The earliest station open year on record in San Mateo is 2015. 82 stations opened in 2025, compared with 73 in 2024. 27 more have opened so far in 2026.