Zap-Map makes electric vehicle (EV) charging simple.
We are the UK’s leading app and digital platform for EV drivers to search for charge points, plan longer journeys, pay on participating networks and share updates with other EV drivers.
With 95%+ of public charge points mapped and around 70% of charge points showing live availability status, Zap-Map provides EV drivers with peace of mind and the confidence to drive any length of journey in their EV.
With the backing of Good Energy, the leading renewable energy company, Zap-Map’s mission is to accelerate the shift to electric vehicles and help the drive towards zero carbon mobility.
Zap-Map attracts more than 200,000 UK users per month from a rapidly growing fleet of over 480,000 pure-EVs (Zap-Map’s core user group) and 390,000 plug-in hybrids (SMMT: May 2022). As the go-to data source for the industry, check Zap-Map for the latest statistics, as well as news, info and tools for current and prospective EV drivers.
The engaged Zap-Map community add daily status and info updates to charging points, and can make their home and work charge points available to other EV drivers as part of the peer-to-peer Zap-Home and Zap-Work network.
With over 10 years of industry experience and unique data sets, Zap-Map offers a range of B2B services including promotion, content, data and market insights. If you would like to find out more, please get in touch with us at sales@zap-map.com.
You can find details on charge point data composition on our statistics page, and further details on sources on the data licensing page.
The Team

Richard Bourne
CEO

Ben Lane
CTO & Co-founder

Melanie Shufflebotham
COO & Co-founder

Alex Earl
Commercial Director

David Burns
Senior DevOps Engineer

Chris Hill
Technical Architect

Ben Rosen
Lead Mobile Apps Developer

Luke Manson
Lead Developer

Edmund Walsh
Senior Platform Manager

Mark Chitty
Product Manager

Kris Inker
Project Manager

Lizzie Lane
Mobile Apps Test Engineer

Amir Askari
Android Developer

Jonathan Clegg
Web Developer

Joe Osborne
Data Manager

Jade Edwards
Head of Insights

Tim O’Neill
Data Analytics Manager

Paul Grosvenor
Digital Adoption Manager

Isabel Cole
Customer Operations Manager

Hannah Laxen
Commercial Operations Manager

Olly Goodall
Content Manager

Ali Bates
HR Manager

Anne Mosley
Finance Manager

Shania Smith
Data Assistant

Niamh Ridge
Data Assistant

Luke Turvey
Data Assistant

Ryan Bury
Community Assistant

Aaron Shaker
Community Assistant

Chris Lilly
Reviews Contributor
The Board
Company founders Ben Lane and Melanie Shufflebotham are also members of the Zap-Map board.
Other Projects
Zap-Map.com is developed by Next Green Car Ltd, a company developing data and digital solutions in the automotive sector from an environmental angle. In addition to Zap-Map, Next Green Car runs and operates nextgreencar.com, the UK’s No.1 green car website. In March 2019 Next Green Car Ltd received investment from Good Energy Group PLC, the 100% renewable energy company. In July 2020 this investment was consolidated so that Good Energy plc now have a majority (50.1%) stake in the company. This backing provides resource and expertise to enable Zap-Map to continue to deliver innovative products and services for EV drivers.
If you want to contact the Zap-Map team we would love to hear from you, just visit our Contact Us page.
Awards

British Renewable Energy Awards
Accelerating towards Net Zero

Regen 2022 Green Energy Awards
Whole Energy System Innovation

driving electric Awards 2022
Best Electric Car App

Futurice Electric 25
Zap-Map

EntreLeague 2021
Zap-Map

WPSE Awards 2021
Melanie Shufflebotham

driving electric Awards 2021
Best EV App

GF 100 Most Influential 2021
Melanie Shufflebotham & Ben Lane

The Meaningful Business 100
Ben Lane, Zap-Map CTO & Co-founder