Montréal's MET Airport Goes Big on Charging: 120 Wallbox Points Live, 48 More Coming

Montréal Metropolitan Airport has switched on 120 EV chargers, and the site isn’t done yet. Another 48 units are queued up as the airport works through an expansion, which would push the total to 168 charging points once a building currently under construction opens its doors.

The hardware comes from Wallbox. Specifically, the airport’s YHU Terminal is running Pulsar Pro units, aimed at staff, travelers and the airport’s own operational vehicles. Wallbox puts the North American Level 2 version of the Pulsar Pro at a maximum of 11.5 kW, though the announcement stopped short of saying what speeds drivers will actually see at MET.

Keeping 168 chargers inside the electrical budget

There’s a less glamorous side to a project this size: figuring out how much juice the whole lot pulls when everyone plugs in at once. Rather than sizing the electrical service as if every stall needed full power simultaneously, the airport is leaning on Wallbox’s Power Sharing feature, which splits available capacity across groups of chargers. That way the installation stays within the site’s existing limits.

Foresta’s software takes care of centralized charger management and payment processing. Quebec electrical products agency edp électrique coordinated the integration, with EG Électrique and Westburne also working on the rollout.

The airport — branded MET — sits in Longueuil, Quebec, and manages more than 2,600 parking spaces spread across short-, mid- and long-term lots. That’s a lot of ground to cover with cable and conduit, and it explains why the buildout is happening in phases rather than all at once.

What Wallbox hasn’t shared yet: pricing for drivers, or a firm date for when the remaining 48 chargers go live. Those details will matter to anyone planning to leave a car at MET for a week or two — airport parking is exactly the kind of place where a slow charger and an unclear tariff can turn into an unpleasant surprise on return.