Introduction
Trip to visit all the southern lower Michigan Tesla Supercharger sites open to non-Tesla vehicles. Site visit on July 21, 2025.
The Meijer in Lansing station was the 11th charging stop on my trip to check the southern lower Michigan Tesla sites. I have been to this location before to complete a site visit on the co-located Rivian chargers, which were the first NEVI funded chargers to open in Michigan. Based on the usage chart in the Tesla app, this site sees steady use but is not overly busy. (This station opened in November 2022).
Accessibility
This Meijer site is in the parking lot of the superstore business. The site is 0.2 miles from I-96 at exit 104. North from the exit in the middle of the large parking lot. The charge points are easy to locate once you have navigated to the Meijer parking lot. The stalls are in the middle of one perpendicular parking row. No pull through parking.
Amenities
Dining options include: Panda Express, Biggby Coffee, Culver’s, Happy’s Pizza
Shopping options include: Meijer
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 in the middle of a row of perpendicular parking, with the center of the layout on one side taken up by the power cabinets and the transformer. There are several end dispensers that can support alternate parking arrangements for vehicles whose charge port locations don’t work the best with the short V3 dispenser cables.
Location
This site supports I-96 east/west interstate and the US-127 north/south highway. At about 90 miles to Detroit and 115 miles to Muskegon, this is about the mid-point between these 2 cities east to west across the state. Grayling is 150 miles to the north and Fort Wayne, IN is 140 miles to the south.
50 Mile Loop:
100 to 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. Another site with a 750 kVA transformer matching the site power needs.
Summary
I arrived at this site at the busy evening rush time. There were quite a few cars already charging, and here I was happy to have Elektra and the front charge port so that I didn’t have to deal with any strange parking to get connected. At any point in time there were between 5 and 8 vehicles all charging at this site at the same time. I made this a longer stop so that I could grab some Panda Express to fuel myself. I also checked on the Rivian chargers, which last time I was at the site were more expensive than the Tesla site. Rivian did put in time of use pricing and move the costs down to be closer to the Tesla price, to the point they might be cheaper than the non-membership rate, at lease for Rivian drivers.
(Rivian NEVI site with updated pricing, and the first stall shown as out of order.)
What I paid for this stop:
Total Cost: $7.71
Total kWh: 21.4284 kWh
Time: 20 min
Average Charge Speed: 64.3 kW
Cost per kWh: $0.36/kWh
Alternatives:
Meijer – 6200 S Pennsylvania Ave, Lansing, MI 48911- $0.45/kWh – 300kW x 6
(Rivian)
Park – 2074 N Aurelius Rd, Holt, MI 48842 - $0.26/min (6% tax) – 62kW x 2
(ChargePoint)
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