# Canada Added Roughly 100 EV Stations in Q3 2026 National fast-charging footprint expanded while Tesla's market share of ports dropped. - **Source:** [MobileSyrup](https://mobilesyrup.com/) - **Published:** 2026-10-13 - **Topic:** [Business](https://brifing.si/c/business) - **Original article:** - **On Brifing:** https://brifing.si/s/16e768ee-9e68-416d-aba2-ab69f31cc997 ## National Network Expansion Pace Canada added 103 charging stations and 391 ports in Q3 2026, bringing national totals to 2,740 stations and 9,615 DC fast-charging ports. Year-over-year figures show solid expansion compared to 2,275 stations and 7,585 ports logged in Q3 2025 across all active operators. ## Greenfield Sites Drive Growth Deployment shifted toward brand new locations rather than upgrading existing ones. Of the 103 additions in Q3, 93 represented entirely new sites while only 10 were station expansions. This marks a clear pivot from Q2 2026, which recorded 77 new sites and 24 expansions. ## Port Density Disparity Narrowing Non-Tesla stations maintained an average of 3.2 new ports per site during Q3, matching the previous quarter. Meanwhile, Tesla averaged 9.8 ports per site, marking its lowest density since Q1 2026 and dropping sharply from the 16.3 ports per station recorded in Q2. ## Tesla Market Share Contraction Tesla installed 88 ports in Q3, capturing 22.5 percent of quarterly additions compared to 24.4 percent in Q2. Although Tesla's total footprint grew to 3,091 ports, its overall share of Canadian fast-charging ports fell to 32.1 percent from 36.0 percent in 2025. ## Rival Networks Gain Ground Circuit Électrique ranked second by adding 61 ports to claim 15.6 percent of quarterly deployments, followed by ChargePoint with 41 ports at 10.5 percent. Outside the top ten, 27 smaller networks added 90 ports combined, representing 23.0 percent of quarterly additions and 1,697 total ports. ## Geographic Concentration of Deployments Eight provinces and territories opened at least one station in Q3, up from seven previously. However, 86.4 percent of new stations were concentrated in three provinces. Quebec led with 49 stations, Ontario added 22, while British Columbia added 18 stations during the quarter. ## Regional Utilization Rate Divide Charger utilization varied widely across Canada in Q3 2026. British Columbia led the country at 13.1 percent utilization, followed by Ontario at 11.5 percent and Prince Edward Island at 10.1 percent. Conversely, Northwest Territories recorded just 0.3 percent, with Yukon and Saskatchewan at 3.9 percent. ## Infrastructure Maturation and Diversification The report highlights a shifting charging landscape where regional players and independent operators steadily erode Tesla's historical dominance. As capital concentrates heavily in Ontario and Quebec, northern and rural territories continue to experience low utilization, indicating uneven regional infrastructure economics across Canadian markets. ## Sources covering this story - https://mobilesyrup.com/2026/10/13/canada-builds-more-ev-chargers-in-q3-study/ — --- _Summary written by Brifing from the original reporting. Copyright in the original article belongs to its publisher; read the full piece at the link above._