EV Charging Stations

Overview

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.

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The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveContext server, this appears in its tool list as EVChargingStations. It is read-only and open-world — it fetches and never mutates anything on your side — so most clients call it without asking you to confirm.

{
  "name": "EVChargingStations",
  "arguments": {}
}

Connecting

One server URL covers every source in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth: the client opens a browser once, and there is no key to paste into a config file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervecontext": {
      "url": "https://api.vervecontext.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

https://api.vervecontext.com/v1/mcp

Per-client setup — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made. Premium arguments are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client reads fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" and error is null on success; a null field means the value was not available for that input, not that the call failed.

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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.

Why ground on it

A model can produce something that looks like this answer from its training data, and be confidently out of date or simply wrong. This source returns the current value in a shape you can check, which is the difference between an answer you can cite and one you have to hedge.

Point an evaluation at count: it is the field most worth pinning a claim to, and it is either present and current or absent — never plausibly invented.

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors carrying a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code. Error handling covers the full list.

A call costs 1 credit each time the tool actually runs; a model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Use cases

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.

Other ways to use EV Charging Stations

Set up EV Charging Stations on VerveContext, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveContext account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

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