Last updated: 11 July 2026
Refuelia combines two kinds of data, and it's worth understanding how each works.
Station and charger locations, brands, and general details come from OpenStreetMap, an open, community-maintained dataset used by many mapping services. This data is generally reliable for "does a station exist here" but isn't updated in real time for things like fuel stock or short-term closures.
Availability, prices, queue length, and open/closed status you see beyond scheduled hours come from reports submitted by other drivers. This is inherently a snapshot from whoever last reported. It can be wrong, outdated, or contradicted by the next report.
A driver can't measure how many liters or gallons are left in a station's tanks, only whether pumps are working and fuel is flowing. No station today provides Refuelia with an official operator feed of real stock levels, so Refuelia only ever shows a status: available, limited, out of stock, or unknown, never a specific quantity. If a network ever connects a live stock feed, its data would appear labeled with that operator as the source.
Every driver-sourced data point carries a timestamp and is shown as fresh, fading, or stale depending on how long ago it was submitted, so you can judge how much to trust it at a glance. Stale data is visually flagged, not hidden. We'd rather show an old report labeled as old than show nothing.
When multiple drivers confirm the same status, the station shows a higher confirmation count and the most recent time it was checked. When reports conflict, we show it honestly as mixed reports rather than picking one arbitrarily.
Signed-in drivers can submit a report to update a station's status, and the Report incorrect information option is available on every station card for issues with the underlying map data itself (wrong location, closed permanently, wrong brand, etc.).
See also our Disclaimer and Community Guidelines.
Where there’s really fuel and a really working charger, right now. Prices come from drivers — someone types in what they actually paid, so it is real, timestamped, and missing until somebody posts it. We never invent a number. Fuel and EV together, worldwide, free.
Passed a station today? Confirm it on the map — one tap, no account, and the next driver sees it.
What a pin can say
Every other map draws the first one and stops. The last two are the point: when nobody has checked, this map says nobody has checked, instead of guessing green.