Fastned has opened a new fast-charging station on the carpool parking in Sint-Job-in-‘t-Goor, near exit 4 of the E19 towards Antwerp.

The Dutch fast-charging company says the site, located on one of the main traffic axes in the Noorderkempen, responds to growing demand for high-power charging infrastructure in the region.

The new station offers eight charging points with a capacity of up to 400 kW. According to Fastned, EV drivers can add up to 400 km of range in around 15 minutes, depending on the vehicle. Like other Fastned locations, the station has the company’s yellow canopy with solar panels and supplies electricity from renewable sources.

54 stations in Belgium

With Sint-Job, Fastned now counts 54 stations in Belgium. It is the company’s seventh site in the province of Antwerp, joining Brecht, Kontich, Schelle, Zoersel, and the two stations in Oud-Turnhout. The location also densifies Fastned’s presence on the E19 corridor, where it already operates a larger station in Brecht, a few kilometers further north toward Breda.

The opening confirms Fastned’s Belgian strategy: build visible, high-power hubs along motorway corridors and at mobility nodes, such as carpool parking areas and service areas.

The network is strongest in Flanders, particularly along the E40, E17, E19, E34, and E313 axes, while Wallonia and the Brussels periphery remain growth areas. Fastned says new Belgian stations are also planned in Tubize, Houffalize, Namur, and Drogenbos.

Measured by charging points rather than stations, however, Fastned is not Belgium’s largest ultra-fast charging player. At the end of the first quarter of 2026, Fastned counted 355 charging points in Belgium across 52 stations, 347 of which were above 300 kW. Sint-Job adds another eight. That gives Fastned a highly powerful network, but not the broadest footprint.

Electra claimed 135 public charging stations and 850 ultra-fast charging points in Belgium by the end of 2025, after a rapid rollout at retail, restaurant, and urban convenience locations.

Allego said it would reach 460 operational fast-charging points in Belgium by Christmas 2025 and recently opened a 24-point hub in Malinas, Mechelen. Tesla officially lists 25 Supercharger locations in Belgium, often with many stalls per site, but its exact Belgian connector total is less directly comparable from public Tesla data. Ionity remains more motorway-oriented and international-focused, with a smaller Belgian footprint.

Site quality, power level, and recognizability

Fastned’s Belgian proposition is therefore less about being everywhere and more about site quality, power level, recognizability, and corridor traffic. Its network is smaller than Electra’s in terms of pure connector numbers, and probably behind Allego’s as well, but almost all Belgian Fastned points are in the 300-400 kW class.

For Fastned itself, Belgium has become much more than a neighboring add-on to its Dutch home market. In Q1 2026, Belgium represented 52 of Fastned’s 414 European stations and 355 of its 2,708 charging points, roughly 13% of the group’s charging hardware. By charging points, Belgium was the company’s third-largest market after the Netherlands and Germany.

Belgian stations also perform strongly. Fastned reported 61.9 sessions per Belgian station per day in Q1 2026 and 1,827 kWh delivered per station per day. That is above the group averages of 55.6 sessions and 1,506 kWh, and close to Dutch performance in terms of energy.

Germany and the UK, by comparison, were far lower per station. This suggests Belgium combines several advantages for Fastned: dense motorway traffic, high company-car electrification, cross-border flows, and a public charging market that is still scaling quickly.

The investment pipeline underlines that importance. At the end of Q1, Fastned had 34 Belgian locations secured for future development, the same number as in the Netherlands.

Its new green loan facility also earmarks an initial €100 million for new stations in Belgium and Switzerland. Sint-Job may be a local addition on a carpool parking, but strategically it fits a broader pattern: Belgium is becoming one of Fastned’s core markets in Europe.