The Gold Standard for public & private charging stations...

The foresight into not only what a smart public charging station could be, but is what a premium charging station should be. By having internal hardware, (though more costly and complicated to design), which allows their stations to be networked and able to monitor errors and report usage, this gives them real world information as to how effective and reliable their products are.

Because of this you can simply check the app to see if the station is in use before wasting time traveling to the station only to discover that it is either already in-use or out of service. THIS is how all public charging stations should function.

To take it a step further, having their CP HOME charging station unit is a major level above everything else. While more costly than other chargers that can obviously charge your EV in the same manner, none of them are networked to report information to you. If you dont care about this information, then you probably havent read this far into a review but if so, you now have an app that shows you all of your charging history for your EV whether at home or at (ChargePoint) public stations.

With ChargePoint stations, you have the following information, both historical AND real-time, of your charging behavior:

-Energy Usage
-Energy Cost
-Charging Status
-Graphed Usage

If you log into the ChargePoint website, you can then view even more data over configured time periods. I will certainly be seeking out ChargePoint stations from now on in order to keep all of my charging history not just all in one place...but actually available and accurate.

When people who are curious about how much it costs to charge an EV, you would always need to have manually kept track of this yourself and while you may get close, you could never be accurate. Now you can be extremely accurate by viewing your charging history by days/weeks/months/years. Some people, like myself, enjoy and appreciate knowing what is happening in the world around them, while others prefer to not be aware. ChargePoint is a premium app with premium charging stations for both types of people.

Maflagulator about ChargePoint: Electric Vehicle Charging On the Go, v5.10.49