Stew Hansens Power Link 1

Of its 2 ports, 2 are DC fast. DC fast ports deliver direct current straight to the battery and are the ones used for quick stops on longer trips. That is about 25% below the Iowa average of 2.7 ports per station. The registry lists one connector type: CCS, Combined Charging System — the J1772-based DC fast connector.

Urbandale has 9 charging stations in the DOE registry with 20 ports, the 15th-most of 131 cities and towns in Iowa. Stew Hansens Power Link 1 accounts for 10% of the charging ports in Urbandale. ChargePoint runs 6 stations in Urbandale. 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.

“Temporarily unavailable” means the station exists but is reported as temporarily out of service. Its access code is public, meaning it is listed as open to any driver. It opened on Jul 22, 2025, one of 61 stations in Iowa with a 2025 open date. The station's record was last updated at the source on Oct 12, 2026.