EV charging in Santa Monica, CA

Of the 258 stations the registry lists in Santa Monica, 252 are open to the public and 6 are private (fleet, workplace or residential). 3 stations are reported temporarily unavailable. The average station here has 3.1 ports, about 18% below the California average of 3.7. Santa Monica holds 1% of California's 21,814 charging stations.

Santa Monica has 154 DC fast ports (often called Level 3 charging) at 10 public stations. The largest are Santa Monica, CA - Tesla Supercharger (62 DC fast), Santa Monica Station (Santa Monica, CA) (20 DC fast), Santa Monica, CA - Santa Monica Pl - Tesla Supercharger (16 DC fast) and City of Santa Monica - Civic Parking Garage (2 DC fast). 3 of them are Tesla Supercharger sites. Across the public stations, 6 list CCS, 17 list NACS (Tesla) and 5 list CHAdeMO connectors.

Where the registry records the site type, the most common hosts are hotel (11), other (9), public site (8), parking lot (4) and parking garage (3). 11 public stations in Santa Monica are tagged as a hotel or inn in the registry: JW Marriott Santa Monica Le Merigot - Tesla Destination, Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel - Tesla Destination, Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows - Tesla Destination, Hotel Shangri-La - Tesla Destination, Hyatt Centric Delfina Santa Monica - Tesla Destination, Travelodge Santa Monica - Tesla Destination, Hampton Inn & Suites Santa Monica - Tesla Destination and Ambrose Hotel and 3 more. 23 public stations list their pricing as free in the registry.

By station count, the networks in Santa Monica are led by ChargePoint (193), Tesla Destination (16), Loop (9) and Flash (8). 14 stations are non-networked. 13 networks in all have stations here.

The earliest station open year on record in Santa Monica is 1998. 18 stations opened in 2025, compared with 20 in 2024. 52 more have opened so far in 2026.