Anaheim, California
EV taxi and robotaxi charging in Anaheim.
This city keeps drivers working through hours that are quiet almost everywhere else. That is good for the fare sheet and awkward for the battery. Here is where the charging is going, and how to plan a stop around a day that does not stop.
1985 S. Santa Cruz St., Anaheim, CA 92805 · Opening early 2027
Why this city runs differently
The demand here does not keep office hours.
Anaheim generates unusually steady taxi and rideshare demand for a city of its size, and the reason is structural rather than seasonal. A convention, resort and events economy produces people who arrive, move around and leave on a schedule set by show floors, session breaks, kick-off times and closing time.
For a driver that is a good problem. Work exists in the mid afternoon, through the evening and late, at hours when a city built only on commuting would have gone quiet. The catch is the other side of the same coin: the windows where you could reasonably step away from the wheel are narrow, and they move.
So charging in Anaheim is not really a question about plugs. It is a scheduling problem. Charging time is unpaid time. Every minute the car spends on a charger is a minute you are not being paid for, which means the only sensible question is what else that time can be made to do.
The charge stop
A stop on S. Santa Cruz St. that gives the time back.
EV Cafe is a charging and dining destination being built at 1985 S. Santa Cruz St., Anaheim, CA 92805, on the south side of the city. It is planned to open in early 2027. The idea behind it is simple enough to explain in one sentence: a charge stop with food, seating, wifi and restrooms turns unpaid waiting into a break you were going to have to take anyway.
72
Superchargers
Planned on site.
Up to 500kW
Charging speed
For vehicles that can take it.
All EVs
Welcome
Not one badge only.
What is there while the car charges
- Somewhere to sit down
- A real seat and a table, not a kerb. The point of a charge stop is that you get to stop.
- Food and coffee
- A dining destination attached to the charging, so the stop covers a meal instead of costing you one.
- Wifi that works
- Time to catch up on the admin every driver puts off: receipts, messages, the next shift.
- Clean restrooms
- The thing every working driver checks first and no charging map ever tells you.
None of that is decoration. A driver who has to choose between charging and eating loses twice in the same hour. Putting both in one place is the whole point of the building.
Getting around the city
Four pieces of Anaheim worth knowing by heart.
Geography, not drive times. Traffic here changes hour by hour and any number printed on a page would be wrong by the time you read it. What does not change is how the city is put together.
The I-5 corridor
Interstate 5 runs the length of the city and is the spine everything else hangs off. Most working trips through Anaheim touch it at some point, which is why a charge stop is worth judging by how easily you rejoin the corridor afterwards.
ARTIC
The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center is where rail, bus and road hand passengers to each other. Interchanges like this generate short, repeatable trips rather than one long fare, which is a different kind of working day.
The Convention Center and resort district
The busiest demand in the city sits here, and it does not follow an office schedule. It builds around show move-in, session breaks and closing time, then keeps going into the evening.
The Platinum Triangle and OC Vibe
The stadium and arena district on the eastern side of the city. Event nights concentrate a lot of people into a short window, and that window rarely lines up with when your battery would prefer a break.
Looking at the whole county instead?
This page is Anaheim. For electric taxi and robotaxi charging across Orange County as a whole, oc.taxi covers the wider picture.
For fleet operators
Turnaround is the number that actually moves.
Run one car and charging is an inconvenience. Run ten and it becomes the constraint that decides how many hours of the day your assets are earning. The questions change shape: how long a vehicle is off the road, whether it can be staged somewhere sensible between jobs, and whether your drivers will actually use the stop you told them to use.
That last one gets underrated. A charging site with nowhere to sit and no food gets quietly avoided, and drivers end up charging somewhere else on their own time. A stop people want to be at is an operational asset, not a perk.
If you are working through depot scale questions, staging and turnaround for a larger fleet, Robotaxi Depo covers that side of it in more detail.
Launch updates
Hear about it the week it opens.
EV Cafe is not open yet. This form collects interest ahead of opening, and the only thing it promises is a message when EV Cafe opens. Nothing else is implied by signing up.
Telling us what you drive and roughly where you are based is optional. It helps us understand who is actually planning to use the site, which is more useful than a count of email addresses.
FAQ
Questions people actually ask.
When does EV Cafe open?
EV Cafe is planned to open in early 2027 at 1985 S. Santa Cruz St. in Anaheim. It is not open yet, so the useful thing to do today is join the notify list and we will email you when it opens.
Can any EV charge there, or is it one brand only?
All EVs are welcome. The site is planned with 72 Superchargers and charging speeds up to 500kW for vehicles that can accept it. If you drive an EV for a living, the badge on the bonnet is not the point.
Is this the same thing as oc.taxi?
No. oc.taxi covers electric taxi and robotaxi charging across Orange County as a whole. This page is the city of Anaheim specifically: the I-5 corridor, ARTIC, the Convention Center and resort district, and the Platinum Triangle. If you want the county-wide picture, read oc.taxi.
Do I need to be a taxi driver to use it?
No. It is a public charging and dining destination. Any EV driver can stop, charge and eat. The site is designed with working drivers in mind because they are the people who charge most often, but nothing about it is restricted to them.
Where exactly is it?
The address is 1985 S. Santa Cruz St., Anaheim, CA 92805, on the south side of the city near the I-5 corridor and within reach of the Convention Center and resort district.
Still deciding whether it is worth the detour?