Our mission
We measure EV charging reliability so nobody has to take anyone's word for it.
The switch to electric driving depends on chargers that work, and on numbers people believe. We give the UK one independent, consistent measure of whether public chargers work, so drivers can rely on them, operators can prove it, and the people who regulate and fund them can see it.
The problem
Ask whether a charging network is reliable and the answer depends on who you ask. Operators measure their own uptime, each in their own way. Drivers remember the one broken charger. Councils and regulators get reports they can't check.
Operators already publish live status data about their charge points; in the UK, the Public Charge Point Regulations require it. That data is the best evidence anyone has, but almost nobody keeps it, and nobody measures every network against it the same way.
What we do
- We keep the evidence. We fetch each operator's open data every few minutes and archive every response exactly as it arrived, with when and how we fetched it.
- We measure everyone the same way. One public method turns status reports into time in service, out of order and unknown, hour by hour, for every network.
- We show our gaps. If a feed goes quiet, that time is recorded as missing. Nothing is filled in or estimated.
- We let anyone check. Every figure traces back to the raw responses behind it.
What we're building
Reliability evidence for operators
A period-by-period record of a network's reliability that an operator can cite in contracts, tenders and reports, backed by the data underneath it.
Area reports
How the chargers in a council, region or nation perform, across every network we measure there.
Open data quality
How complete, timely and accurate each operator's published data is, because reliable data is part of a reliable network.
Outages explained
When a charger is down because the grid is, the record should say so. We're working on linking verified external events, like power cuts, to the outages they cause.
One model, any standard
Operators publish in OCPI, regulators ask for DATEX II, and chargers speak OCPP. Our core model translates between them, with the original kept alongside.
How we stay neutral
A measure is only useful if nobody can bend it. No operator can pay to change a figure or its position, and paying customers see the same figures as everyone else. Read our principles.