About the data

ChargerStatus shows the UK's public EV charge points using only open data: the operators' own feeds, which the law now requires them to publish, and Ordnance Survey's place names.

Where the charge points come from

Since 24 November 2024, the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023 (opens in a new tab) require every operator of public charge points to publish, free and in a standard format (OCPI), where each charge point is, what it offers, its prices, and whether it is available, updated within 30 seconds of a change. The data must be open in line with the Open Government Licence.

There is no single official list of these feeds, so we keep our own. We read 23 feeds directly today; others need a key or an agreement that we have asked for, and some operators have not published yet. The feed health page shows each one.

The UK government's National Chargepoint Registry, the old central database, closed on 28 November 2024. We don't use it.

Live status

We read each operator's feed every 10 to 60 minutes, depending on what the operator allows. The status you see is the operator's own: "free" (available), "in use" (charging, or a vehicle in the bay), "out of order" (out of order or inoperative), or "not published". Some operators publish "unknown" for many chargers; we show that honestly rather than guessing. If an operator's feed hasn't been read successfully for a while, the page says so.

How we measure reliability

Every time a charger's status changes, we record when we saw it change. From that history:

Reliability is the share of time a charger was working or in use, out of the time its status was known, over the last 7 days (30 days once we have a month of history).
Only time we were watching counts. Each successful read of a feed covers the time until the next one, but never more than three times the usual interval (and at least 30 minutes). If a feed was unreadable for longer, that time is left out, not counted as working.
Short faults are not outages. Spells out of order shorter than 10 minutes count as working, because many rapid chargers briefly report a fault between sessions. An outage is a spell of 10 minutes or more.
Unknown status is left out of the percentage.
A figure appears once a charger has at least 6 hours of known status.

We have been measuring since 9 Nov 2026, 23:25.

These are our measurements from the operators' data, not the operators' own figures. If an operator's feed reports a charger as working when it isn't, we can't tell.

Towns and areas

Each site is placed in its nearest settlement, and on the page of the town or city it is in or within 3 km of. In London we list by borough. Places come from Ordnance Survey's OS Open Names. Northern Ireland isn't covered by OS Open Names, so sites there use the operator's own town name.

Licences and attribution

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (opens in a new tab).

Contains charge point data from char.gy, published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from ChargePlace Scotland, published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from Evolt (SWARCO E.Connect), published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from PoGo Charge, published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from MFG EV Power, published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from Clenergy EV, published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from EV Dot (BMM) / Globe EV, published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from GeniePoint (Equans), published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from Arnold Clark Charge, published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from ScottishPower Recharge, published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from Enfield Council, published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from Be.EV, published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from 3ti / Papilio (per site), published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from Urban Fox, published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from Mer UK, published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from Park & Recharge (Hubeleon), published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from ROAM (formerly EVC), published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from Go Zero, published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from Monta (platform), published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from Fastned, published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023. Source: Fastned. Fastned’s data has been adapted here: it is combined with other networks’ data, and the reliability figures are our own.
Contains charge point data from PLUG Charging, published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from JOLT, published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Contains charge point data from Sainsbury's Smart Charge, published under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023.
Postcode locations from postcodes.io (opens in a new tab), which uses ONS and Ordnance Survey data: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right; Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right; National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right.

Spotted something wrong? Email hello@chargerstatus.com. For a charger that isn't working, please also tell the operator: their number is on the charger.