{"id":117325,"date":"2026-01-30T12:45:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/117325\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:45:27","slug":"walmart-announces-new-parking-lot-changes-are-coming-to-19-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/117325\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart announces new parking lot changes are coming to 19 states"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walmarts around the country could soon be adding new amenities to their vast parking lots.<\/p>\n

In the coming months, the mega-retailer will add electric vehicle charging stations at Walmart and Sam\u2019s Club locations in nearly 20 states. <\/p>\n

The company first announced the EV push in 2023, saying in an announcement at the time<\/a> that it intended to build out a network by 2030 to make vehicle charging more accessible.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith a store or club located within 10 miles of approximately 90% of Americans, we are uniquely positioned to deliver a convenient charging option that will help make EV ownership possible whether people live in rural, suburban or urban areas,\u201d Walmart Senior Vice President Vishal Kapadia wrote in the announcement. <\/p>\n

Last month, Walmart added over 75 \u201ccoming soon\u201d charging locations to its website<\/a>, according to EVChargingStations.com<\/a>, outlining the areas the company could soon bring online.<\/p>\n

Close to home, one New Jersey location \u2014 Freehold Store #3236, 326 W Main St., Freehold \u2014 is in line for EV charging. <\/p>\n

Other locations will be added in states like Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. A full list can be found online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walmarts around the country could soon be adding new amenities to their vast parking lots. In the coming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[51783,31051,51784,9,24,63,51782,134,136,135,51785,51786,14599],"class_list":{"0":"post-117325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-hadley","9":"tag-logo","10":"tag-ma","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-russell-street","15":"tag-staten-island","16":"tag-staten-island-headlines","17":"tag-staten-island-news","18":"tag-store-logo","19":"tag-store-sign","20":"tag-walmart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}