Tesla has opened the first Megacharger sites dedicated to its electric Semi truck in the southeastern United States: an eight-stall station in Conley, south of Atlanta, and a six-stall station in Ellabell near Savannah. Each stall has a rated capacity of up to 1.2 megawatts, giving the truck its first public charging corridor outside California.
The Conley station is located at 1820 Rock Cut Road near I-285 and I-675, while the Ellabell station is at Pilot site No. 1390 on I-16, about 20 miles west of Savannah. The two stations are approximately 220 miles apart via I-75 and I-16, on a route connecting the Port of Savannah area with the Atlanta area.
What changes practically for Semi trucks?
Tesla says the Standard Range version of the Semi offers up to 325 miles of range, while the Long Range version reaches 500 miles at a gross vehicle weight of 82,000 pounds. The company also says that a Megacharger can restore up to 60% of the vehicle’s range in 30 minutes.
This makes it possible to operate a Standard Range truck on a round trip between the Port of Savannah area and Atlanta along this route, as the round trip exceeds 440 miles. The Ellabell station is also the first Megacharger at a Pilot truck stop, in a rollout that came later than the date planned for the summer.
Pilot’s expansion and the charging network
Pilot said that three additional stations are being prepared: a Flying J station in Tulare, California; a Flying J station in Fort Stockton, Texas; and a Pilot station in North Las Vegas, Nevada. It added that nine more stations are under construction, with each station set to include between four and eight stalls.
Tesla’s public list currently includes the Vernon and Bloomington sites in California, along with Conley. Including Ellabell, the total reaches four customer-focused sites and 26 stalls, while the company had displayed 66 sites on its map in February and announced in its fourth-quarter 2025 report a projection of approximately 37 sites during 2026, with a goal of reaching 46 sites by early 2027.
Why does this news matter?
The step’s primary significance is that it directly connects charging infrastructure to an actual freight corridor between a major port and a logistics hub, rather than relying solely on isolated pilot stations. However, the available figures also reveal a substantial gap between the number of open sites and the announced schedule, making the pace of Megacharger deployment a decisive factor in Tesla’s ability to expand Semi operations beyond limited routes.
This comes as Tesla began high-volume Semi production two weeks ago at a factory in Nevada designed to produce 50,000 trucks annually, after being selected as the primary supplier for an order of 2,500 trucks. The opening of the two Georgia stations alone does not prove that the network can cover long-distance routes nationwide, but it provides an early practical test of the viability of megawatt-capacity charging on one of the United States’ freight corridors.