Introduction
Trip to visit all the southern lower Michigan Tesla Supercharger sites open to non-Tesla vehicles. This trip took place on July 21, 2025
The Meijer in Benton Harbor station was the 6th charging stop on my trip to check the southern lower Michigan Tesla sites. Just a couple of miles north of the next stop. I have been here before to review the Electrify America location. Based on the usage chart in the Tesla app, this site sees steady use but is not overly busy. (This station opened in July 2023).
Accessibility
This Meijer site is in the parking lot of the superstore business. The site is 0.4 miles from I-94 at exit 23. The charge points are easy to locate once you have navigated to the Meijer parking lot. The stalls are along the southwestern edge of the parking lot in line with the other chargers at this location. No pull through parking stall.
Amenities
Dining options include: Wings Etc, Biggby Coffee, Joanna La Michoacona Taqueria
Shopping options include: Meijer, Aldi
Car-related services (windshield cleaning, air): Meijer gas station in same parking lot
Concentration
This is a standard 12 stall V3 location. The dispensers are arranged along the southwest edge of the parking lot. The power cabinets and the transformer are placed behind the row of dispensers. There are no alternate placement dispensers to help those that might have a charge port that doesn’t work well with the V3 short cables. Most likely those vehicles could use one of the dispensers at the end of the row.
Location
This site supports I-94 east/west interstate. Quite a popular location for charging in Michigan. Connecting major cities including Grand Rapids – 95 miles NNE, Chicago – 95 miles W, and Indianapolis – 190 miles S.
50 Mile Loop:
150 Mile Range Estimate:
Speed
The currently installed V3 power cabinets can produce up to 500V and 600A. The power cabinets are connected by the high voltage DC bus, and thus can share power amongst all the dispensers. Of course, this 500V limitation reduces the peak charging speeds for some 800V architecture vehicles, but the 600A output works well for lower voltage higher amperage vehicles. Since I am on this trip with Elektra, the 200A, 80kW limit of the vehicle will not be stressing these units at all. As mentioned in the site review for the Electrify America chargers here, Tesla manages to have 12 charging points from 1000kVA of transformer power, while EA only supports 6 ports from that same power.
Summary
(Summary of the stop with parking location, vehicles that charged during the stop, and other activities done.)
What I paid for this stop: (I didn’t charge, just stopped for the site review)
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With the next stop just a few miles down the road, I didn’t stop to charge at this location.
Alternatives:
Meijer - 1920 Pipestone Rd, Benton Harbor, MI 49022 - $0.56/kWh- 350kW x 6
(Electrify America)
Dunkin’ - 2680 M-139, Benton Harbor, MI 49022 - $0.62/kWh - 300kW x 6
(Rivian)
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