Dierbergs Lakeview Pointe

Dierbergs Markets has been a family-owned St. Louis grocer since 1914. At its Lakeview Pointe center at the Lake of the Ozarks, the charging equipment installed in an earlier generation had reached the point every first-wave DC fast charging site eventually reaches: aging hardware, a narrower connector set than today’s EVs need, and no local answer when something goes wrong. EVre’s scope was equipment modernization — replace what was there with hardware built for the fleet on the road now, and put an owner-operator behind it who actually picks up the phone.

The site

Lakeview Pointe is a grocery-anchored shopping center, with Dierbergs as the anchor tenant drawing steady year-round trips plus the seasonal surge that comes with a Lake of the Ozarks location — second-home owners, boaters, and vacation traffic layered on top of everyday grocery runs. That mix rewards fast charging over slow: most drivers here want a short stop, not an all-day plug. The site sits in Ameren Missouri territory, and the chargers it replaced were an earlier generation of hardware — without today’s connector standard or a monitored network behind them. Modernizing in place meant working within an existing, operating retail center rather than building a greenfield site.

What EVre delivered

EVre installed two 75 kW Tritium RTM75 DC fast chargers on the Noodoe network, with NACS and CCS1 connectors on every port so Tesla drivers charge without an adapter and every other EV plugs in the way it always has. Both units support Plug & Charge (ISO 15118) for drivers whose vehicles support it, plus standard card and app payment for everyone else.

The RTM75 is liquid-cooled, IP65-rated, and built to operate from -35°C to +50°C — hardware sized for the Lake of the Ozarks’ full seasonal range, not just a mild-weather showroom spec. Each unit’s twin cables share 75 kW dynamically across two vehicles charging at once, so throughput doesn’t collapse just because both cables are in use.

Every port is monitored 24/7 by EVre, with local dispatch when something needs a technician on site — not a national call center reading a script. And critically: the station itself is EVre-owned and operated. Dierbergs hosts the site; EVre carries the equipment, the electric bill, and the operating risk.

Why it matters for your project

Dierbergs Lakeview Pointe is a preview of a replacement wave that’s coming to a lot of early-adopter sites. Hardware installed in the early years of the DC fast charging market is aging out at grocery anchors, retail centers, and campuses across Missouri and Kansas — and swapping it isn’t as simple as unbolting the old unit and bolting on a new one. Before you replace aging charging hardware, check four things: service capacity (does the existing electrical service still support the new equipment, or does the utility need to get involved), connector mix (does the replacement carry NACS alongside CCS1, or will you be obsolete again in a few years), network (open-network software you control, versus a proprietary platform that locks you to one vendor), and support (a monitored network with real dispatch, versus a unit that goes dark and stays dark). Get those four right and a modernization project shows its value in uptime alone.

This is perfect. As usual, you guys are a class act — thank you so much for your help. Dierbergs Markets