Rollout of Charging Points in the U.S. Is Far Slower Than Surging EV Sales

While electric vehicle registrations in the United States have surged by 142% since the beginning of 2023, the pace at which public charging point installations are growing has been just 22%, risking undermining the current momentum of EV sales in America. As of September 2024, registrations of electric vehicles in the United States hit 3.5 million units, per data from the Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC) cited by Reuters’s columnist Gavin Maguire. That’s a surge of 142% since the beginning of 2023. But the number of public EV charging…