About ChargingNear.me

Our Mission

ChargingNear.me exists to make finding EV charging as easy as finding a gas station. We aggregate data from the US Department of Energy, network operators, and community sources to build the most complete and accurate EV charging directory in the United States.

Empowering EV Drivers Across America

A free national directory and trip planner, built so any EV driver — a first-time Bolt owner in rural Iowa, a Rivian family heading down the coast, a Cybertruck road-tripper crossing the Rockies — can pull up to a station that actually works without guessing which app to open or which network owns the plug. We catalog every public charger the federal government tracks, cross-check it against community sources and on-the-ground operators, and keep that picture honest day after day so the answer to "where do I charge?" never depends on luck.

Drivers do not always come to us directly, and that is fine. The same data flows out through a public REST API, an MCP server, a ChatGPT plugin, and a GeoJSON feed, so when a navigation app, an automaker's in-dash assistant, or any AI system gets asked the same question on a driver's behalf, it can answer with the same fresh directory we would give them ourselves. Coverage should reach the driver no matter which screen they happen to be looking at.

The Future of Travel and Transportation

Electric vehicles are not just a different kind of car. They are quietly rewriting the auto industry, the trucking fleet, the air over American cities, and the economics of every parking lot, highway exit, rest stop, and small-town main street they touch. The way the country fuels itself is being rebuilt in real time, and the directory of where to plug in is going to matter for decades the way the road atlas mattered for the last hundred years.

Our bet is that this rebuild needs an open, accurate, daily-refreshed map underneath it — not a paywalled one, not an app-store-only one, not one tilted toward whichever network paid the most. ChargingNear.me is meant to be that map: the kind of plain civic infrastructure a road-tripping family, a long-haul truck dispatcher, an automaker designing the next vehicle, and a city planner zoning a new highway exit can all rely on for free.

What We Do

  • Comprehensive directory: 60,000+ EV charging stations across all 50 US states, searchable by location, speed, network, and connector type.
  • Daily updates: Station data synced daily from the US Department of Energy's NREL Alternative Fuel Stations database.
  • Multi-source enrichment: Cross-referenced with Google Places, OpenChargeMap, OpenStreetMap, and TomTom for maximum accuracy.
  • Trip planning: Route planner that maps the best charging stops for your EV road trip.
  • AI-ready: API, MCP server, and ChatGPT plugin so AI assistants can help drivers find chargers.
  • Property owner tools: Demand analysis, ROI calculators, and site assessments for businesses adding charging.

Who We Are

ChargingNear.me is operated by Wins Parking, a parking and mobility technology company. We bring parking industry expertise to the EV charging space, helping property owners make informed decisions about charging infrastructure investments.

Our Team

We are a small, family-owned shop of about ten — engineers, designers, data folks, and operators, with veterans of mapping, parking, EV charging, and proptech in the mix. Most of us drive electric ourselves. The team is small enough that the people writing the code talk regularly to the people running the chargers and the people road-tripping on them, and that is the loop we want to keep tight.

How we work is unfashionably hands-on. We sync federal and community data every day, sweat the duplicates and the bad geocodes, listen to drivers when a station is wrong, and ship corrections fast. We refuse to do a few things on purpose: no paywalled basics, no ad-stuffed maps, no inflated station counts, no charging the public for data the public already paid for through NREL. The directory is free, the API is free for normal use, and the underlying station data is open under CC-BY-4.0.

We can credibly take this on because we live in the EV-charging real world, not just on top of a dataset. Our parent operator, Wins Parking, has spent years inside the parking and mobility industry, and Recharged+ America — the founder's stacked-use mobility corridor on Colorado's I-70 — means we are operating real DC fast-charging plazas, not just listing other people's. That perspective is why ChargingNear.me ships with the bias of an operator. Local roots, long bets, free public tools, open data, and a near-religious belief that finding an EV charger should one day feel as ordinary as spotting a gas-station sign. That is the whole pitch — now back to the maps.

Built by Ross Blankenship

Hand-drawn portrait of Ross Blankenship, founder of ChargingNear.me and Recharged+ America
Ross Blankenship · Founder, ChargingNear.me

ChargingNear.me is built and operated by Ross Blankenship — a CTO-level product and engineering leader working at the intersection of real estate technology, parking, EV charging, and AI. He focuses on systems where software has to do more than look impressive: it has to survive operational pressure, real-world friction, and the messy reality of physical assets like land, vehicles, and infrastructure.

Ross studied government and economics at Cornell and then attended Washington University School of Law on a full scholarship. Along the way he built and shipped products through the early days of Authy, Unsplash, Buffer, Checkr, Peer5, Roadster, the early Ethereum era, HomeLight, and Rappi — work that shapes how he thinks about trust systems, marketplaces, real estate, and the rails underneath digital infrastructure. He has also published books, taught around startup and technology topics, and filed invention work tied to safety, communication, and real-world systems. More background and writing at rossblankenship.com.

Recharged+ America. Ross's current real-estate development project is Recharged+ America — a stacked-use mobility corridor on Colorado's I-70 with two anchor sites in Edwards and Gypsum. Each location pairs a DC fast-charging plaza sized for road-trip peaks and Eagle County Airport rental-car turnover with an autonomous-vehicle depot, an airport-style premium members lounge with a ground-floor coffee bar, a mountain-view fitness club on the second floor, express and premium car-wash bays on the apron, workforce-housing keys above the canopy, and an all-electric building stack tied together by recycled water, on-site solar, and Powerwall storage. It is the physical-world counterpart to ChargingNear.me's data-and-discovery layer — where the road actually recharges.

Operating real EV-charging real estate while running a national directory, REST API, MCP server, and ChatGPT plugin for the rest of the network is why ChargingNear.me ships with the perspective of an operator, not just an aggregator. The fastest way to reach Ross directly is Connect on LinkedIn.

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