The Department for Transport has awarded Zapmap the contract to supply nationally aggregated data on when public EV chargepoints are in use, how much they cost, and how often they are out of order.
The mapping and payment firm has shared information informally with the DfT since 2017, but has now cemented this arrangement having won a “competitive tender process” to become the official source for aggregated data on how chargers operate at a more granular level.
Regulation, introduced in 2024, dictates that public charging firms ensure their machines share data electronically in a format that can be easily read by computers. Information includes charger location, plug type, pricing and whether a charger is in use or is out of order. Zapmap will now collate this information on a national level and share it with the government “periodically”.
This will allow for “a deeper understanding of patterns of usage across different types of charging, which will help to deliver targeted growth and to shape informed policy decisions”, Zapmap says.
The firm’s co-founder and chief operating officer, Melanie Shufflebotham, says she is “delighted” to have secured this “significant contract”, and that the deal “recognises Zapmap’s robust data onboarding and quality control mechanisms and our strong, longstanding relationships within the industry”.
