Wonder

Research Outline

Prepared for Shigetaka | Delivered March 31, 2020

Location Data: Gas and EV Charging Stations

Goals

To understand how Radar and Recargo from previous findings correct and maintain their gas and EV charging station data.

To identify 2-3 more companies in the US that are selling location data of gas and EV charging stations with the following key data points: types of data provided (location, price, charges), key customers of each company, and prices charged for the data provided (if available).

To identify 2-3 companies in Europe that are selling location data of gas and EV charging stations with the following key data points: types of data provided (location, price, charges), key customers of each company, and prices charged for the data provided (if available).

Early Findings

Our research on how Radar/Gasbuddy and Recargo/Plugshare corrects and maintains their gas and EV charging station data, and our preliminary research on identifying more US companies that sell the location data of gas and EV charging stations revealed insights. Here are the key pieces of information we found:
Radar and Recargo Data: Correction and MaintenanceFrom previous findings, Radar uses Gasbuddy to locate the nearest gas stations in the United States, and Gasbuddy uses the location data infrastructure of Radar.
 Radar uses a fraud feature to help to correct and maintain their gas station data.
 Gasbuddy relies on their more than 30 million users to help correct and maintain their gas station data, with on-staff experts who utilize this data in a fuel insights methodology of fuel benchmarks that is frequently updated.
From previous findings, Recargo uses Plugshare as an EV charging station database.
 Plugshare corrects and maintains their EV charging station database by using recent valid samples and extreme sample depth to ensure the integrity of their data.
US Companies: Location Data of Gas and EV StationsOther companies in the US that sell the location data of gas stations are: Gas Guru and Waze.
Other companies in the US that sell the location data of EV charging stations are: ChargeHub and Open Charge Map.