Fuel shortages, price spikes and blackout-driven queues aren't rare edge cases anymore — they're a regular part of driving somewhere in the world most years, whether the cause is a supply disruption, a currency shock, or just demand outrunning the grid. Official dashboards move too slowly to matter in the moment.
EV charging has its own version of the same problem: an app says a charger is free, you arrive, and it's broken, occupied, or gone. Nobody's stitched fuel and electricity into one honest, live picture.
Refuelia exists to close that gap directly. No sign-up wall, no app required. Just the truth about the station or charger up the road, from someone who was just there.
The concept covers the whole world, not one market. It tracks more than yes-or-no — prices, queues, limits, charger status. And it builds in monetization from day one, since a free map that can't sustain itself disappears exactly when people need it most.
Working name history: FuelFinder, then "Where's the Gas" — Refuelia stuck once the idea stopped being just about liquid fuel.
Concept stage as of July 2026. Strategy is set; the product isn't built yet. This site describes where we're headed, not a finished product.
| What's out there today | Refuelia |
|---|---|
| Shows the pin, not whether it's actually useful right now | Live availability, prices, queues — updated by people who were just there |
| Fuel or EV charging — rarely both | Every fuel type and every EV standard, one map |
| One country, one dataset | Global from day one, market by market |
| Depends entirely on crowd activity, or none at all | + Open datasets (OSM, Open Charge Map), so quiet regions aren't empty |
| Free but ad-heavy, or paywalled outright | Core map free forever, funded by optional business tools |
Testing the model somewhere the pain points are sharp enough that word of mouth does the marketing for us.
Where the pain is sharpest, growth tends to be organic and fast.
Strong EV demand — the point where monetization and charging-operator partnerships start to matter.
Open-data coverage becomes the baseline everywhere, crowdsourcing layers on top.
Regional fuel shortages triggered by conflict, weather or refinery outages are now a yearly occurrence, not a once-a-decade event.
As EV adoption crosses the tipping point in more markets, charger reliability matters as much as fuel availability once did.
Currency swings and energy-market shocks mean a price you saw this morning can be stale by afternoon.
Peak EV charging increasingly overlaps with peak demand — "is this charger actually free" is a bigger question than ever.