The Rust Belt Is Becoming Ground Zero for the EV Charging Boom

As electric car sales pick up pace far from the US coasts, a wave of new fast-charging stations are coming online from the Rust Belt down to the Deep South.

Roughly 600 quick-turn stations switched on in the third quarter across the US, a 7% increase from the end of June, according to a Bloomberg Green analysis of Department of Energy data. There are now nearly 9,000 public, fast-charging sites in the US, and their proliferation has only quickened.

For the year to date, the number of fast-charging options in the US has grown by 35% over the year-earlier period. At that ...