Find the right charging locations. Before your competitor does.
Concession scouting, retail rollout, plankaart validation, and fleet siting — backed by data, delivered in days.
The problem
Hardware isn't the bottleneck. Site selection is.
Every gemeente runs a plankaart. Whoever identifies the best locations within it first wins the rollout. The chargers themselves are commodity infrastructure now; the operators that win are the ones with the best screening engine on top.
Locata gives EV charging operators a screening layer that runs across thousands of candidates in parallel, scoring against parking pressure, EV density, grid capacity, traffic generation, and the dozens of other criteria that determine whether a location will earn its capex inside five years.
What Locata does
Four use cases, one platform.
Same scoring backbone applied to the decisions cpos teams make every quarter.
Concession application underpinning
Score every location in a gemeente's plankaart against your business case before you write the bid. Walk in with ranked recommendations and the data to defend them, not a generic capacity argument.
Retail partner rollout
A chain has 300 locations. Which 60 are fast-charging viable? We screen on parking capacity, parcel space, grid access, traffic generation, and intra-chain variance — the differences that matter site-to-site within one brand.
Plankaart validation and alternatives
When the municipal plankaart is suboptimal, generate alternative proposals with reasoning fit for municipal review. Constructive critique, not pushback.
Fleet and logistics siting
Depots, transit hubs, on-route points — based on routes, ownership feasibility, and grid availability. The combinatorics that defeat manual planning, solved in one scoring run.
Data we connect
The sources behind every score.
EV charging needs both the geography (where) and the demand signals (who will plug in). We layer them in one pipeline per candidate.
See the full enrichment list for cadence and coverage.
Kadaster
Parcel ownership and acquisition feasibility.
BAG
Buildings, addresses, and parking-related attributes.
NDW
Traffic intensity on national roads, live.
RDW
EV density by postcode — the actual demand signal.
Grid capacity indicators
Liander, Stedin, Enexis public congestion data per region.
Municipal open data
Plankaarten, parking pressure, public charging permits.
Street View
Frontage, sightlines, accessibility, signage feasibility.
Retail chain web data
Operator footprints, store characteristics, expansion announcements.
What a report looks like
Per-candidate scoring, ready for the concession bid.
Every scored location ships with the reasoning behind its rank, the data citations the models used, and a tradeoff summary so your concession team can defend the selection in writing.
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Pricing
Predictable, per-project or annual.
Per project or annual subscription, depending on scale. Concession bids are typically one-off pilots; rollout programs run on subscription with quarterly refresh.
Project pilot
from €15,000
Fixed scope, fixed price. Defined region, defined deliverable, defined timeline.
Ongoing subscription
from €2,500/month
For programs running on a refresh cadence. Includes integration support and prompt iteration.
How we start
How we start.
Most CPO engagements begin with one of two pilots: a single-gemeente plankaart screening to support a live concession bid, or a single-chain retail rollout screening. Two to three weeks, fixed scope.
- 01Week 1: bid context + scoring prompt definition
- 02Week 2: scoring run + reasoning review
- 03Week 3: ranked shortlist + bid-ready dossier
FAQ
EV charging: common questions.
What is Locata for EV charging operators?
Locata is an AI site selection platform for charge point operators that screens thousands of plankaart locations, retail-partner sites, and fleet depots against your business case. Multi-model scoring against parking pressure (municipal data), EV density (RDW), grid capacity (Liander/Stedin/Enexis), traffic intensity (NDW), and Street View context. Output: ranked candidates with reasoning, in days.How does Locata help with concession applications?
Locata scores every candidate in a gemeente's plankaart against your business case before you write the bid, so you walk in with ranked recommendations and the data to defend them. The same scoring backbone also generates alternative-location proposals when the plankaart is suboptimal — constructive critique formatted for municipal review.Can Locata screen retail partner rollouts?
Yes. For a chain with hundreds of locations, Locata pre-qualifies on parking capacity, parcel space, grid access, traffic generation, and intra-chain variance — the differences that matter site-to-site within one brand. Most retail rollout pilots screen 200 to 500 candidates in two to three weeks.What data does Locata use for EV charging site selection?
Kadaster (parcel ownership), BAG (buildings and parking attributes), NDW (live traffic), RDW (EV density by postcode), regional grid capacity indicators, municipal open data (plankaarten, parking pressure, permits), Google Street View, and web data on retail chain footprints.How long does an EV charging pilot take?
Two to three weeks fixed-scope from kickoff. Week one is bid context plus scoring prompt definition with your team, week two is the scoring run plus reasoning review, week three is the ranked shortlist plus bid-ready dossier. Above 5,000 candidates we batch by region; the methodology doesn't change.What does Locata cost for EV charging engagements?
Pilots from €15,000 fixed-scope, fixed-price. Ongoing subscriptions from €2,500/month for programs running on quarterly refresh. Concession bids are typically one-off pilots; multi-region rollout programs run on subscription.
Related reading
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