bp pulse EV Fast Charging Opens Several Sites Including Los Angeles and Duarte

There are dozens of sites around the country and more are going online.

This is bp certainly not wanted to be left behind as Shell has been involved in EV with various acquisitions, including Greenlots.

Check out the sites:

2107 Huntington Dr

2107 Huntington Dr, Duarte, CA 91010

and

9150 Aviation Blvd, Inglewood, CA 90301

9150 Aviation Blvd

Since we are primarily concerned with DC Fast Charging, which Pasadena has close to 50, but the number seems to be dropping.
Currently as of September 11, 2025, the city posted this updated. Which we feel is not accurate based on what is really happening at the locations.

Table II: Status of Public Fast Chargers
Location Total – Offline Chargers
Del Mar Garage 3 3
Marengo Garage 20 9
Arroyo Parkway 6 5
Jackie Robinson Park 5 2
Victory Park 3 3
Shopper’s Lane 8 1
Total 45 23

Even we take the Pasadena numbers above it’s about 50% of the DC Fast Chargers work.
Which even looking today at the PowerFlex app which is not that much difference in time.
Del Mar Garage 1 of 1 open, 3 installed, but I have only seen 2. The third is somewhere in the parking area. , but according to PWP all DC Fast Chargers are offline as of Sept 11, 2025.
Marengo Garage 18 of 24 open, 24 installed?
Arroyo Parkway 2 of 2 open, 6 installed
Jackie Robinson Park 2 of 4 open – 5 installed.
Victory Park 0 showing, 3 installed
Shopper’s Lane 2 of 8 open – 8 installed

These numbers vary wildly from PowerFlex and PWP posted numbers. We do know there are physically installed chargers.
If Tesla had a charger failure rate like PWP we doubt the company would even be around after a few years. The charging network is key to the success of Tesla, and thus they continue to expand.
They are not installing level 2 charging, they are installing fast charging and that which is many times faster than the fast chargers PWP has installed. 50Kw is the bottom if the rung for fast chargers.

In an apparent accidental Pasadena Police Officer to Officer shooting, that took place on Sunday evening, September 7, 2025.   The incident is under investigation.

Apparently the weapon discharged and an officer was injured.

Pasadena PD is already severely short on officers that having them shoot one another is certainly not going to help.

We will see when the investigation is complete as to what occurred. But whatever happened it certainly doesn’t look good especially on a day in the city when there are almost 100k people at the Oasis concert at the Rose Bowl.

And for whatever reason Pasadena PD News and Press Releases have been pretty much non-existent since February of 2025.

See for yourself: https://www.cityofpasadena.net/police/

After years of requesting and watching neighboring cities live stream on YouTube… Pasadena has finally started as of this week, live streaming meetings on the YouTube Channel.

You can view here:

At this time we don’t know if it will only be City Council meetings or other meetings as well.

We will find out.

Reports of a shooting at Memorial Park on September 4, 2025 at 4:45. This is one block from Pasadena PD headquarters.

SoundThinking/ShotSpotter which the City of Pasadena still pays hundreds of thousands in fees, was of zero use. This technology is apparently useless for fireworks and now shots. What is probably the case, is that the sensors are not located in the area to pick up the shots.  Apparently the placement of the sensors is not public knowledge or to know what areas are covered, but it is worth requesting the data from PPD.

Campeau added that SoundThinking did not register the incident and no surveillance footage has been located as of Friday morning.

From the latest PWP update on the status of DC Fast Chargers.

This update from August 28, 2025, shows that many of the chargers that are online are actually offline.

Perhaps some changes occurred since the August 28, 2025 update. But we know that Robinson Park has 4 offline and 1 was working.

We still do not know where the third fast charger is at Del Mar, repeated questions has yielded no direct response.

The Marengo Garage numbers are way off and the PowerFlex app shows Chademo chargers that don’t exist.

The Pasadena Rent Stabilization Dept

This time a press release was issued with information that is not accurate.

Here’s the press release

As we are info our Labor Day holiday weekend and entering September 2025, the state of DC Fast Charging is getting worse, not better.

In the past week we have seen some disturbing trends.

1. Victory Park DC Fast Chargers which on 8/20/25 had been labeled out of order appeared as operational on the PowerFlex app. Calls to PowerFlex asking for confirmation led to a variety of responses, but that basically the chargers are offline.  But at the same time, people had gone to the chargers and attempted to use.  Although the DC Fast chargers appear to be off. people are confused by the app vs signage as has been the case over the course of the way these chargers have been managed.  So that was the first incident.
2. Robinson Park, with 5 DC Fast chargers, we now from the app and from seeing the chargers in person that 1 has been out of order for about a year, maybe longer, we have no idea what the issue is with this charger, #5 has been offline for a very long time, we do not know if it was ever online.   So according to the app there should be 4 working DC Fast Charges. Well surprise, there is online 1…. YES ONLY 1 WORKS. The app shows 4.  Only #4 is operational. The errors on the three units is varied from appears to be working to flashing errors,  This is an absolute travesty.   But the city continues to state that they are proud of their number of chargers.

We don’t know what has transpired within the PWP group that manages these valuable and critical resources, but it speaks volumes as to what is a chronic problem with the city.  From the top down, the lack of accountability has continued.  The City Manager who is ultimately responsible for this embarrassing state of affairs is nowhere to be found on this issue. Copied and countless emails. Phone calls unreturned.

I urge everyone who has had the experiences I have with the EV DC Fast Charging to call and email the people who are responsible for having spent millions of our dollars to implement these systems, and continue to spend our tax dollars to manage, and are failing miserably.

The city may try to claim that chargers are operational on their website, but we know now that it is all smoke and mirrors, these status postings are not reliable or accurate.  The app is not reliable or accurate.  The people who manage this program are failing just like the chargers.

I urge those who rely on DC Fast Charging to contact city staff and their elected representatives.

Also, new is a Change.org petition to help drive home to the city the urgency of what is taking place.

Continue to call and express concern, these are the people who are responsible for the state of EV charging in Pasadena.

City Manager Miguel Marquez miguelmarquez@cityofpasadena.net phone (626) 744-4333

David M. Reyes davidreyes@cityofpasadena.net
General Manager, Department of Water and Power
150 S. Los Robles Ave. #200, Pasadena, CA 91101
626-744-7598

Varoojan Avedian vavedian@cityofpasadena.net
Assistant General Manager
Pasadena Water & Power – Power Delivery Division
1055 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 350, Pasadena, CA 91106
(626) 744-7851

Susana Castro scastro@cityofPasadena.net
Senior Executive Assistant
626-744-7029

If you call the above people don’t expect a return call, usually they don’t return calls, which is a whole other topic.  Not return the call of your community members and residents is a total slap in the face, like a big disrespect to it’s residents.  Why do they think it’s ok not to return phone calls?  That’s another topic.

Others and the media that need to be contacted to express the dire state of charging.

Victor Gordo,

Mayor

Tyron Hampton, CD1

Rick Cole, CD2

Justin Jones, CD3

Jess Rivas,

Vice-Mayor, CD5

Gene Masuda, CD4

Steve Madison, CD6

Jason Lyon, CD7

Entire Pasadena City Council 

City Manager Miguel Márquez

Pasadena Now: editor@pasadenanow.com

Pasadena Star News: opinion@scng.com

Colorado Blvd: editorial@coloradoblvd.net

LA Times: andrew.khouri@latimes.com

LAist / KPCC: dwagner@scpr.org