Zapmap is the trading name of Zapmap Limited, providing an EV driver app, payment services and is a leading source of EV charging data and insights for government and industry.
Zapmap helps drivers across the UK find and pay for EV charging with confidence, improving charging visibility, route planning, and the overall driver experience, with their app and services creating a high value demand generation channel for charge point operators. Through Zapmap Insights, it also supports the wider EV industry with trusted charging data, expert analysis, and insights into infrastructure usage and driver behaviour.
What we do and who we help
For EV Drivers: Over 1 million registered app users rely on Zapmap to navigate the public charging landscape with total confidence. Drivers can use Zapmap to find and pay for charging across the UK, see live charger availability and pricing directly on the map and easily plan cross-network routes.
For CPOs: Charge point operators know that the Zapmap platform offers a sure fire way to highlight charger locations, coverage and availability, while keeping payments simple for EV drivers. Our credit and RFID offerings further extend reach to new audiences. Our gold standard market intelligence is an open secret, supporting competitor benchmarking, customer experience and strategic development.
For government: As the official data provider to the Department for Transport for public EV charging infrastructure in the UK, we're supporting central, regional and local government alongside associated agencies to map demand and optimise location planning. Zapmap’s high-integrity, granular data, evidencing where, when and how drivers are charging, helps to ensure that national policy moves past guesswork to drive the transition to low-emission mobility.
For the energy industry: Connected load is static; actual demand is dynamic. For DNOs, iDNOs and network planners, understanding when people charge is as important as by how much. Zapmap tracks demand patterns and real-world driver behaviours as well as providing go-live dates for individual charging devices and tracking how utilisation matures over time. Our Insights products are used for accurate load forecasting, mapping revenue to peak-time demand, site modelling and maintenance planning, taking the guesswork out of ROI projections and protecting long-term asset value.
For the wider sustainability ecosystem: From OEMs to insurance, from green energy tariffs to leasing, we’re a source of education, information, statistics and resources for anyone working towards the clean energy transition. Zapmap’s tools and commercial market intelligence help you to support your customers as they navigate new choices, and our advertising and demand generation services, alongside our communications partnerships, help to build a credible voice and to reach the largest, most engaged community of EV drivers, buyers, and intenders.
Our leadership and team
We’re fortunate to have a great team at Zapmap. Thanks to backing from clean energy company Good Energy and global fleet solutions provider Corpay, it’s growing all the time.
Led by our CEO Richard Bourne, our leadership team has decades of experience across consumer apps, tech architecture, data analytics and the EV charging market. Our teams are steered by industry experts, including Melanie Shufflebotham (COO), Mark Reed (Technology), Ed Walsh (Product), Jade Edwards (Insights), Joanna Edwards (Finance), and Suzie Frost (People).
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Our story
As a pioneer in the early days of electric cars, Zapmap was founded in 2014 with a mission to accelerate the transition to low emission mobility by helping people navigate the EV charging landscape with confidence.
What began as a pioneering digital map has evolved into the UK’s leading EV charger mapping and service, built on the most comprehensive, accurate and reliable charge point data. hitting major development milestones along our journey:
Corporate backing
Zapmap secured vital seed investment in 2019 and 2021 from 100% renewable energy company Good Energy to help build our proposition..
Product expansion
We launched our payment proposition in 2020, introducing a single-app, cross-network payment solution to reduce charging friction for drivers.
Series A Funding
Zapmap announced a major £9 million Series A funding round in August 2022, securing continued backing from Good Energy alongside a strategic investment from global business payments provider Corpay to scale-up our operations.
Expertise and track record
With over a decade of experience in the EV charging industry, Zapmap delivers a consumer app for EV drivers, support for charge point operators and high integrity data which provides insights to the industry on the shape and scale of the charging point infrastructure.
Government: As a trusted data partner to the Department for Transport, Zapmap data officially underpins the UK Government’s public charging infrastructure statistics and local authority mapping.
Partnerships: Partnered with a number of organisations including The AA and Hive, Zapmap provides EV charging services to the wider industry. Zapmap also collaborates closely with a number of organisations such as EVA England, Electric Vehicle UK, Charge UK and BVRLA to provide driver feedback and insights.
Data integrity & insights: Zapmap integrates charger data from multiple charge point operators, standardising and enhancing the data to provide the most comprehensive coverage of public chargers in the UK. This data, and the insights from it then support Government, charge point operators, energy companies and the wider EV industry.
Professional standards and expertise
As a central pillar of the UK's e-mobility infrastructure, Zapmap adheres to strict regulatory, industry, and technical data standards to ensure the highest level of security and quality for our users and partners.
Technical standard interoperability: Our data platform utilises the globally recognised Open Charge Point Interface (OCPI) protocol. This standardises the secure, real-time transmission of location, status, and pricing data between Charge Point Operators (CPOs) and our database.
Data security & governance: We maintain strict cyber governance protocols across our applications and enterprise systems, ensuring comprehensive user data protection, robust endpoint security, and reliable platform uptime.
We hold ISO 27001 certification: This independently audited certification demonstrates our commitment to Information Security Management and recognises that we have the processes in place to deal with information security threats and issues should they arise.
Recognition and industry standing
Our focus on helping EV drivers find and pay for charging alongside our comprehensive EV charging data and insights has made Zapmap a key player in the EV industry.
Award-winning technology: Zapmap has been widely recognised for its EV driver app, winning accolades such as the REA’s Company Award and Driving Electric Best EV App. In technology winning the AutoTech Breakthrough’s Overall EV Innovation of the Year award 2024, securing the #1 ranking on the TransportTech 50 list in 2023 and consistently ranked in the Futurice Electric 40
Leadership accolades: Our executive leadership is recognised across green tech, with co-founder Melanie Shufflebotham regularly ranked in the top ten of the GreenFleet 100 Most Influential leaders, winning Women in Green Business entrepreneur awards and a finalist for the Autocar Great Women.
Media standing: As the definitive authority on public EV charging analytics and driver sentiment, Zapmap data, quarterly infrastructure reports, and industry insights are regularly cited by major national media, including The Guardian, The BBC, The Times, The Financial Times, and Sky as well as being referenced in industry reports such as Green Finance Institute, RAC Motoring, Charge UK, EVA England and many others.
Trust, ethics and governance
At Zapmap, we maintain rigorous standards of corporate responsibility, data integrity, and user privacy to ensure our platform remains a highly trusted utility for drivers, businesses, and policymakers.
Ethical Commitments & Sustainability: Our core mission is inherently tied to low-emission mobility. We operate with environmental responsibility at our centre, prioritising transparent, fair practices that lower the barrier to EV adoption and support a net-zero future.
Data Protection & Privacy (UK GDPR): We treat user and partner data with the highest security. Zapmap fully complies with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. We ensure strict data minimisation, secure cloud hosting, and transparent cookie and account governance.
Our headquarters & contact information
While our charger mapping and data services span across the UK and mainland Europe, Zapmap’s corporate operations and core development teams are located in South West England.
Office address: Zapmap Limited, Runway East, 1 Victoria Street, Redcliffe, Bristol, BS1 6AA
Registered office: Zapmap Limited, 33 Colston Avenue, Bristol, England, BS1 4UA
Get in touch: Whether you are an EV driver needing app support, a charge point operator looking to roam with us or a business requiring institutional-grade EV market data, our team is readily accessible.
