Opinions, data, and the occasional rant
About UK EV charging infrastructure, open data, and the industry that would rather you did not know any of this.
We found 20,000 charge points hiding in our own database. Not missing from our feeds. Not unpublished. Just broken data that nobody had fixed. Here is what we did about it, and why we should not have had to do it at all.
Read the postThere is a map embedded in almost every EV charging app in the UK. You have used it hundreds of times without thinking about it. You have never been asked if that was okay. You were never going to be.
Read the postKensington averages £3.1 million and has a higher infrastructure risk score than Bexley at £443,000. We ranked every London borough using real postcode-level data. The results are not what you might expect.
Read the postWe scored every major UK city by EV charging access, broadband coverage, deprivation and infrastructure risk. Aberdeen tops the list. London gets its own separate analysis.
Read the postThere is a charge point outside your local supermarket. It was built on public land, connected to a publicly funded grid, installed with public subsidy, and mandated by public law. You paid for it. You cannot find out if it works without creating an account with a private American company.
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