Ames EV Inis Grove Park

Of its 2 ports, 2 are Level 2. Level 2 ports are 240-volt AC chargers, typically used where a car is parked for an hour or more. That is about 25% below the Iowa average of 2.7 ports per station. The registry lists one connector type: J1772, the standard Level 1/2 AC connector.

Ames has 25 charging stations in the DOE registry with 57 ports, the 4th-most of 131 cities and towns in Iowa. Ames EV Inis Grove Park accounts for 4% of the charging ports in Ames. ChargePoint runs 19 stations in Ames. Statewide, Iowa has 528 stations and 1,404 ports, the 33rd-largest station count of the 51 states and DC. The biggest station in Iowa, Wells Fargo West Des Moines Campus in West Des Moines, has 24 ports.

The largest US charging network by station count — mostly Level 2 at workplaces, retail and municipal sites. ChargePoint operates 48,998 stations in the registry across 52 states, with 5,017 DC fast and 83,427 Level 2 ports in total. 254 of those stations are in Iowa, 48% of the state's 528.

“Available” means the station is open and in service according to the DOE registry. Its access code is public, meaning it is listed as open to any driver. It opened on Oct 17, 2023, one of 72 stations in Iowa with a 2023 open date. The station's record was last updated at the source on Oct 12, 2026.