GM Energy Pass Simplifies Public Charging for EV Owners

The automaker is rolling out a feature called Energy Pass that folds the country's biggest charging networks into the MyChevrolet, MyCadillac, and MyGMC apps, and from where I'm standing, it's the most meaningful piece of daily-use news to hit GM EV owners in a long time.

What Energy Pass actually does for you

At launch, Energy Pass pulls in Tesla Supercharger, Ionna, and Electrify America stations, with ChargePoint and EVgo joining shortly after. According to InsideEVs, those networks together cover roughly 70% of DC fast chargers in the U.S., plus a healthy chunk of Level 2 hardware. For a grocery-run, school-pickup, weekend-getaway driver like the ones I talk to most, that means one app, one login, one payment method — and probably one fewer argument in the car.

A few specifics worth pinning to the fridge:

• You can start and stop sessions, watch live status, and pull up charging history and receipts from inside the brand app.
• Ionna is offering a 10% charging discount for GM EV drivers who use the MyChevrolet, MyCadillac, or MyGMC app — real money back on a road trip.
• Plug & Charge is live now at Ionna Rechargeries and EVgo. Pull up, plug in, walk away — no screen tapping, no app fumbling.
• ChargePoint Plug & Charge is coming this summer, and an over-the-air update will bring the same hands-off experience to Tesla Superchargers for NACS-equipped GM EVs later this year.

The NACS switch — and what it means at the dealership

Here's the part buyers shopping right now need to pay attention to. GM is dropping the CCS1 connector entirely on its 2027 lineup in favor of the compact North American Charging Standard (NACS) inlet. The 2026 Cadillac Optiq and the 2027 Chevrolet Bolt already ship with NACS from the factory, and every Chevrolet, GMC, and Cadillac EV built through December will follow.

If you're staring at a dealer's lot today, that means older inventory still on a CCS1 port won't get the full Plug & Charge experience at Tesla Superchargers without an adapter. For buyers cross-shopping a leftover 2025 or early 2026 model against a 2027, the out-the-door price delta has to be weighed against that adapter dance. I've done it. It's not fun.

The bigger picture: charging is finally catching up

It's not just GM doing the work. Pilot Company, in partnership with GM Energy and EVgo, added 50 new charging locations across 25 states in the first half of 2026, pushing its coast-to-coast network past 275 sites, per C-Store Dive. Kwik Trip's Kwik Charge program has grown to 23 locations across Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa in its first 18 months. Onvo and ChargePoint are lighting up 12 travel centers in Pennsylvania and New York with CCS and NACS dual-connector hardware.

None of this solves every headache — cold-weather range loss, rural dead zones, and the occasional broken stall are still very much a thing — but the app-juggling era for GM owners is ending, and that's worth paying attention to before you sign the next lease.