@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialOpen data for public EV charging points, as required by the European #AFIR regulation, the Belgian edition:
- now mostly outsourced to a commercial data aggregator, requiring registration
- price is stored per charger, and you can make 1 request every 10 seconds = 6/min, 360/hr, 8640/day
- with 70,000 charging points, that means even weekly price updates are impossible
- the l…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialWork in progress: monitoring public EV charging ad hoc prices (i.e. what you pay on the go at the charger with a bank or credit card without registration) in the European Union.
Across the EU, only 40% of pricing transparency as required by #AFIR regulation for EV charging. Most countries fail.
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialI'm developing a tool to analyse European public EV charging prices, particularly time-varying ones. According to the EU's #AFIR, this data should be freely accessible and there should be a National Access Point (NAP) to easily retrieve and use it. It’s not.