The Department for Transport (DfT) has appointed Zapmap as its electric vehicle chargepoint open data provider.

Zapmap has been awarded a contract to supply the DfT with open data from public chargepoints. This will involve Zapmap aggregating publicly available data from all public chargepoints in the UK and provide this on a periodic basis to the DfT.

The Public Charge Point Regulations (PCPR) 2023 mandate that from the 24th November 2024, charge point operators (CPOs) must make publicly available reference and availability data in a machine-readable format for all public chargepoints. The EV Open Data contract sees Zapmap aggregating and supplying all such data to DfT on a chargepoint and CPO basis. 

Melanie Shufflebotham, Co-founder & COO at Zapmap, said: “We are delighted to have been awarded this significant contract, which recognises Zapmap’s robust data onboarding and quality control mechanisms and our strong, longstanding relationships within the industry.  The availability of this data to government will support them in their decision-making and policy development,  which in turn should  help organisations and EV drivers make the switch to EV with confidence.”