EV Charging Stations API

About the EV Charging Stations API

An EV charging station API covering about 107,000 public and private charging locations in the United States and Canada, from the US Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator. Search a true radius of up to 80 km around coordinates, a ZIP or postal code, or a city and state, and get stations sorted nearest first with the distance in kilometres and miles.

Each station returns its name, street address, latitude and longitude, status (open, planned or temporarily unavailable), public or private access, charging network such as Tesla, ChargePoint, Electrify America or EVgo, and its Level 1, Level 2 and DC fast port counts. Connectors are listed by type (J1772, CCS1, CHAdeMO, NACS/Tesla, NEMA outlets) with their port count and charging level. Filter by connector, network, level, fast charging only, access and status.

Paid plans add each connector's maximum power in kW and the station's top power, the pricing text, access hours, phone number, facility type (hotel, parking garage, car dealer and so on), network website, open date, expected open date of planned stations and the date the station was last confirmed. The data is refreshed daily.

How it works

Give the search centre as lat and lon, a zip (US ZIP or Canadian postal code), or city with state. ZIP and city searches start from the centroid of the stations listed in that place. A US ZIP with no station listed starts from the ZIP's own centroid, and a Canadian postal code with none starts from its forward sortation area (the first three characters); a city with none listed returns 404. The search is a true great-circle radius (radius, default 10 km, at most 80), not a bounding box, and results are sorted nearest first with distanceKm and distanceMiles. count reports every station in the radius that passes the filters and limit (default 20, at most 100) caps stations.

By default only open, public stations are returned; status and access widen that. connector takes one or more of j1772, ccs, chademo, nacs, nema515, nema520, nema1450 and mcs (tesla, j3400 and ccs1 are accepted as aliases), and a station passes when it has any of them. level keeps stations with ports at Level 1, Level 2 or DC fast, fastOnly=true keeps DC fast stations, and network is a substring match on the network name, so network=tesla matches both Tesla and Tesla Destination.

The data is the Alternative Fuels Data Center's electric station list, published through the NLR (formerly NREL) developer API and refreshed daily. Port counts are the station's EVSE counts by level; connectors and their power come from the per-unit charging detail where the station reports it, otherwise from its connector list with ports null. On the Free plan power, pricing, hours, phone, facility type, network website and the dates are null.

What people use it for

Navigation and Trip Planning

Find DC fast chargers with the right connector along a route or near a destination.

EV Driver Apps

Show the nearest chargers with ports, network, pricing and hours on a map.

Real Estate and Hospitality

Show how many chargers are within walking distance of a property, hotel or office.

Fleet and Site Planning

Measure charging coverage around depots and candidate sites by level and network.

Ways to call it

One endpoint, many ways in — REST with JSON, XML, YAML and CSV, plus GraphQL and an MCP interface for AI agents.

JSON

Default REST response

XML

Markup format

YAML

Human-readable

CSV

Tabular export

Beta

GraphQL

Query language

New

MCP

For AI agents

Request parameters — GET /v1/evchargingstations

Sent in the query string. Premium parameters are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them. Anything not listed here is dropped rather than passed through.

Optional

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curl "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/evchargingstations?lat=37.7749&lon=-122.4194&zip=10001&city=Toronto&state=ON&radius=2&connector=ccs&network=Tesla&level=2&fastOnly=true&access=public&status=open&limit=20" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Authentication

Send your key in the x-api-key header. That is the only auth step — no token exchange, and no per-endpoint scope to configure.

Response — GET /v1/evchargingstations

Every APIVerve endpoint returns the same three top-level keys, so one response handler covers your whole integration: status, error and data. Only data changes shape.

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{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "count": 16,
    "returned": 2,
    "searchCenter": {
      "latitude": 37.7749,
      "longitude": -122.4194,
      "source": "coordinates"
    },
    "radiusKm": 2,
    "stations": [
      {
        "name": "HUDSON PACIFIC 1455 LOBBY 2",
        "status": "open",
        "access": "public",
        "address": {
          "street": "1455 Market St",
          "city": "San Francisco",
          "state": "CA",
          "zip": "94103",
          "country": "US"
        },
        "latitude": 37.775747,
        "longitude": -122.418214,
        "distanceKm": 0.14,
        "distanceMiles": 0.09,
        "network": "ChargePoint Network",
        "ports": {
          "level1": 0,
          "level2": 0,
          "dcFast": 1,
          "total": 1
        },
        "fastCharging": true,
        "connectors": [
          {
            "type": "chademo",
            "name": "CHAdeMO",
            "level": "dc_fast",
            "ports": 1,
            "maxPowerKw": 62.5
          },
          {
            "type": "ccs",
            "name": "CCS1 (J1772 Combo)",
            "level": "dc_fast",
            "ports": 1,
            "maxPowerKw": 62
          }
        ],
        "maxPowerKw": 62.5,
        "accessHours": "24 hours daily",
        "pricing": null,
        "facilityType": null,
        "phone": "888-758-4389",
        "networkWebsite": "https://www.chargepoint.com",
        "openDate": "2022-11-18",
        "expectedOpenDate": null,
        "lastConfirmed": "2026-11-14"
      },
      {
        "name": "HUDSON PACIFIC 1455 LOBBY 1",
        "status": "open",
        "access": "public",
        "address": {
          "street": "1455 Market St",
          "city": "San Francisco",
          "state": "CA",
          "zip": "94103",
          "country": "US"
        },
        "latitude": 37.775745,
        "longitude": -122.418191,
        "distanceKm": 0.14,
        "distanceMiles": 0.09,
        "network": "ChargePoint Network",
        "ports": {
          "level1": 0,
          "level2": 0,
          "dcFast": 1,
          "total": 1
        },
        "fastCharging": true,
        "connectors": [
          {
            "type": "chademo",
            "name": "CHAdeMO",
            "level": "dc_fast",
            "ports": 1,
            "maxPowerKw": 62.5
          },
          {
            "type": "ccs",
            "name": "CCS1 (J1772 Combo)",
            "level": "dc_fast",
            "ports": 1,
            "maxPowerKw": 62
          }
        ],
        "maxPowerKw": 62.5,
        "accessHours": "24 hours daily",
        "pricing": null,
        "facilityType": null,
        "phone": "888-758-4389",
        "networkWebsite": "https://www.chargepoint.com",
        "openDate": "2022-11-18",
        "expectedOpenDate": null,
        "lastConfirmed": "2026-11-14"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Response headers

Every response carries your balance, so your own code always knows where it stands without polling anything. All four are exposed to browsers through CORS.

Errors

Read the HTTP status first, then error for the specific reason. The body names the parameter that has to change.

What a call costs — 1 credits per call

Credits are shared across every APIVerve API — one balance, one key, one bill. Failed requests never count against it, so a rejected input costs nothing.

Calls are what the credits buy at this API's rate — spend them here, on any of the other APIs, or across both. Nothing is reserved per endpoint.

Zero-code embed — one snippet, no backend

Drop an interactive EV Charging Stations form onto any page. The widget calls the API for you, so no key ever appears in your markup and there is nothing to deploy.

Changelog — EV Charging Stations API

Every change to this endpoint, newest first. Breaking changes ship as a new version and the previous one keeps serving — response fields are added, never removed or retyped in place, so an integration written against v1 keeps working.

Currently v1Data refreshed daily