Fast. Private. No nonsense.

Warning: you are about to read the wildest take on EV web marketing on the internet. It has Terminators in it. Even a bit of Warhammer 40k.

EVChargeSpot does one thing. It finds you the nearest EV charger as fast as possible and gets out of your way. What we do not do is ask who you are, track where you go, show you ads, or load Google's surveillance infrastructure to power a map. The whole thing loads in under 2 seconds on a slow mobile connection. Rapid as the chargers we find.

We built it because when your battery is at 8% on the A55 at 10pm, the last thing you need is proto-skynet demanding your email address, sending you push notifications, and sniffing around your data trying to find out what you had for breakfast before it will tell you where the nearest rapid charger is.

Speed is the point. Privacy matters. Everything else is a distraction and designed to waste your time.

A Terminator has one mission. So do we.

A Terminator does not get distracted. It does not pivot halfway through. It does not try to be your friend, build engagement loops, or check in to see how you are feeling. It does what it was sent to do, and it leaves. No subscription. No notification. No commercial relationship. No app following you home.

EVChargeSpot is built the same way. One mission: find you a charger. The page loads, the map populates, you tap or type, the answer appears. Nothing about it is engineered to keep you there longer than that. No "while you're here, why not save your favourite chargers?" No "create an account to unlock real-time availability." No push notification at 9pm on a Tuesday because your attention is slipping.

The thing about being relentless about one goal is you never need more than one thing from the user. And what we ask for is nothing.

Hasta la vista, cookies. You won't be back.

EVChargeSpot shows you 80,000+ charge points the moment you open the page. No login, no form, no waiting. It loads in under 2 seconds on a slow mobile connection because there is nothing to load except the map and the data. We collect nothing about you, store nothing about you, and have no commercial relationships with any charging network, which means every result you see is there because it is useful, not because someone paid for placement. We self-host all fonts so even your typography request stays private, and we use Leaflet with CartoDB tiles instead of Google Maps so Google sees nothing when you search.

Go away Google. You smell.

We use Leaflet with CartoDB tiles instead. It does not report back to anyone when you look for a charger in Bridgend at 11pm. It also loads faster because it is not dragging tracking infrastructure alongside it. We self-host all fonts too, so even your typography request stays private. Google sees nothing.

The EV charger app dichotomy: pay up or piss off

The business model is simple. Some apps are free but you pay with your data. Others start free then hit you with a paywall the moment you want anything useful, like real-time availability or the ability to filter by connector type. Network apps are free but only show you their own chargers, requiring an account so they can track your sessions and push you toward their tariffs. Every option has a catch. Either you pay with money or you pay with your data. There is no genuinely free, unbiased option. Except this one.

Sign up first. Then wait while the map loads. Then get notifications at 9pm on a Tuesday because you have not opened the app in a while and your attention is slipping. The charger finder is a front. The product is you.

The EV charger app: the new oxycodone of the EV industry

It starts free. That is the point. Get you on the app, get you scanning QR codes, get you saving your favourite chargers, your usual routes, your home postcode. Get you dependent. Once your charging history, your RFID card, and your saved locations are locked inside their ecosystem, leaving feels harder than it actually is. That is not an accident. That is the product.

The free tier is deliberately crippled. Real-time availability, network filters, journey planning, anything actually useful sits behind a monthly subscription. The app that promised to make EV driving easier is now another direct debit. Meanwhile the data you generated for free, your patterns, your locations, your behaviour, is being packaged and sold to the same charging networks, insurers, and advertisers who paid for the app to exist in the first place.

You are not the customer. You never were. You are the product, the dealer, and the addict all at once.

Your car is already watching you

Here is something worth understanding. An electric vehicle is, by its very nature, a data collection device on wheels. It knows where you go, when you go, how fast you drive, how you brake, how much charge you have left, and where you stop to top up. The car manufacturer knows. The network knows. The grid operator knows. That ship has sailed and there is not much any of us can do about it.

But the app on your phone is a different matter entirely. That is a choice. And what that app does when you are not using it, when you are at home after work, when you have finished charging and just want to be left alone, says everything about whose interests it actually serves. Push notifications about products you never asked for. Suggestions that have nothing to do with finding a charger and everything to do with monetising the attention of a captive audience. The app that presented itself as a useful tool for drivers turns out to have a business model that only makes sense if it never stops talking to you.

Your EV already knows too much about you. The app on your phone does not have to.

Public money. Public infrastructure. Private data.

There used to be a National Charge Point Registry. A single, government-maintained record of every public charge point in the UK. It was not perfect but it existed, it was public, and it was free. It was decommissioned. The replacement is a legal obligation under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023 that requires operators to publish open data, enforced by nobody in particular, interpreted differently by everyone, and relied upon by a patchwork of third party aggregators who themselves sit behind paywalls, rate limits, and API keys.

The government made open data the law. Then it handed responsibility for that law to the same commercial entities who benefit from keeping the data closed. Charging networks want growth and so do politicians. Both stand on stages talking about the green transition, the net zero target, the electric future. Both accept public subsidy, public land, public grid connections. And both quietly make it as difficult as possible to actually find out where their chargers are unless you are willing to create an account, sign a data sharing agreement, or pay for access to information that the law says should be free.

The market is murky too. Subsidiaries, acquisitions, rebrands, joint ventures. A charger that was installed under one company name is now operated by another, listed under a third, and reported in government statistics under a fourth. The NCR existed to cut through that. When it was decommissioned the market filled the gap with commercial interests and the data got hazier, not clearer.

At the core of all of it is a simple fact. This is public infrastructure, built with public money, on public land, mandated by public law. The data should be freely available. It is not. EVChargeSpot exists because of that gap.

And to be fair, some operators do publish data. For that we are genuinely grateful. But publishing data and publishing good data are two very different things. What we actually find when we go looking is postcodes that do not exist, coordinates that place chargers in the middle of the North Sea, street addresses that are three fields smooshed into one with no separator, connector types listed as EVSE when EVSE is not a connector type, it is the entire unit. Stale records from operators who updated their feed once in 2022 and consider the job done. Data published in formats that require a computer science degree to parse. Feeds last updated when the regulation was new and nobody was checking.

We clean all of it. We snap coordinates to postcodes using real GIS data. We cross-reference city names, normalise connector types, deduplicate records across sources, and flag locations that look wrong. It is data engineering work that no casual user should ever have to think about. We do it because we are data obsessives and we cannot help ourselves. But a serious company with serious investment and serious government backing in 2026 should not be making the rest of us do this. The data pipeline should not be a hobby project. It should be infrastructure.

Who built this, and why it is free

If you made it this far you are an absolute legend. Seriously. Share this page in a group, send it to your EV owning mates, post it somewhere the EV industry might actually see it. That is all I ask.

In the Warhammer 40,000 universe, the Alpha Pariah is a being that the great powers of the galaxy cannot account for. It carries the rarest of human traits, a void where chaos cannot reach, a blank space that psychic power fails to penetrate, a presence that is fundamentally incompatible with corruption. The establishment fears it. Ancient empires want to control it. The forces that profit from disorder want it destroyed. None of them can stop it. Not because it is stronger than them. Because it simply is what it is, and what it is does not play by their rules.

The EV charging industry is a cathedral of corporate power. Billion pound networks backed by Norwegian state energy companies, American private equity, and UK government grants. Apps built by teams of developers with product managers and roadmaps and quarterly OKRs. Government bodies with consultation processes and working groups and frameworks that take three years to produce a recommendation that nobody enforces. An entire ecosystem of faceless, corporeal entities moving slowly, spending heavily, and making sure the rules are written in a way that suits them.

This is one person in Wrexham with a laptop, a decent internet connection, and a pathological inability to accept that data which the law says is public should be anything other than public.

EVChargeSpot was built in weeks. It outperforms sites that cost millions to build. It maps chargers that the official sources cannot find. It loads faster on a slow mobile connection than the industry incumbents load on fibre. It exists because one data obsessive decided that the gap between what should exist and what actually exists was too embarrassing to leave alone.

The Alpha Pariah does not knock politely at the door of the industry it intends to disrupt. It does not present credentials or seek validation from institutions that would rather it did not exist. It does not ask permission from the networks, the regulators, or the VC-backed apps who have spent years making this problem worse.

It arrives. It builds. It does not stop.

EVChargeSpot is free because the data is free and the infrastructure is cheap. I am not venture-capital funded and I am not trying to sell you a premium subscription. The charger finder is free and will stay free. I built it because I was frustrated with the existing options and I could not find a single good reason why something better did not already exist. I will continue to add networks, clean data, and expand coverage no matter what obstacles or roadblocks are placed in the way. This is public data. It belongs to everyone. And I am not going anywhere.

We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office. Yes, really. Unlike some of the apps mentioned above.

For the Emperor. And John Connor.