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Independent EV Evidence analysis

How the operator scorecard works

EV Evidence’s operator scorecard ranks two separately eligible components: higher reliability and lower comparable price. Exact ties share a midrank percentile, and an overall score is the mean of both component percentiles only when the same operator passes both eligibility gates. The current production build supports this reproducible method, not a league table.

Source: EV Evidence, Public charging reliability method.

Key facts and evidence

The published method keeps eligibility separate from scoring: reliability needs its own sample and coverage gates, price needs its own gates, and both components are required for an overall score. Exact equal values share a competition rank and midrank percentile. The current licensed scorecard contains no comparable operator observations, so it publishes no scores or rankings.

Source: EV Evidence, Public charging reliability method.

Reproducible calculation

Component and overall formulae

Reliability is ordered from higher to lower. Comparable price in pence per kWh is ordered from lower to higher. Only eligible observations enter the relevant component cohort.

Tie midrank

Let pfirst and plast be the first and last one-based positions occupied by an exact-value tie.

rmid = (pfirst + plast) / 2

Component percentile

N is the number of eligible operators in that component cohort.

P = 50 when N = 1P = 100 × (N − rmid) / (N − 1) when N > 1

Overall score

The overall score exists only when the same operator is eligible in both components.

overall = (Preliability + Pprice) / 2

Coverage duration

Coverage dates are inclusive. Duration is calculated before the coverage gate is applied.

days = coverage_end − coverage_start + 1 day
  1. Form one comparable cohort per component

    Keep only numeric observations with an identical complete metric definition and identical coverage dates for that component.

  2. Apply the published sample and coverage gates

    A row below either minimum remains disclosed but does not enter ranking. Neither sample size nor coverage duration changes its observed value.

  3. Sort canonical values and assign ties

    Sort reliability descending and price ascending. Exact equal values share competition rank, so positions are 1, 2, 2, 4. Operator ID may order display inside a tie but never breaks it.

  4. Calculate each component percentile

    Use the eligible cohort size and tie midrank in the formula above. A unique best value receives 100, a unique worst value receives 0, and a one-member cohort receives 50.

  5. Calculate and rank complete overall scores

    Average the two component percentiles only when both are eligible, then rank exact overall scores from high to low using competition rank again.

Published E2 gates

Eligibility, not hidden weighting

These values are read from the current scorecard artefact. If a gate is absent, EV Evidence does not supply a default on the page and must withhold the affected score or rank.

Reliability component

Direction
Higher is better
Required unit
Percent
Minimum sample size
≥ 10 sample units
Minimum coverage
≥ 30 inclusive days

Price component

Direction
Lower is better
Required unit
Pence per kWh
Minimum sample size
≥ 1 sample units
Minimum coverage
≥ 1 inclusive days

Overall requires both components: Yes — reliability and price must both pass. Sample size and coverage are pass/fail qualification gates and disclosures only. They do not weight, shrink, boost or estimate a component.

  • Missing remains missing

    A missing value stays null with a reason. It receives no component rank and makes the overall score null; it is never filled with 0. A genuinely published numeric zero remains a numeric observation and is assessed normally.

  • Unformatted values decide order

    Ranking and tie detection use canonical, unformatted values. Values that look equal after display rounding are not tied unless their canonical values are exactly equal. Exact rational overall scores are compared before display rounding.

  • Rounding is presentation only

    Published scores may be displayed to four decimal places using round-half-up. That formatted value is never fed back into a component score, overall score or rank.

Time and release controls

Update cycle and data period

Build time, source check time and observation coverage answer different questions and are kept separate.

Cohort contract

Definitions must match exactly

Numeric rows are comparable only within a component whose complete definition and coverage dates are identical. A mismatch fails closed or must be published as a separate cohort.

  • Reliability

    The unit must be percent and the direction must be higher is better. The definition must also identify its metric ID, description, sample unit, population and calculation. Different populations or denominators cannot share a ranking.

  • Price

    The unit must be pence per kWh and the direction must be lower is better. A per-minute, per-session or subscription-only tariff, or a tariff with inseparable extra fees, is not converted into a guessed pence-per-kWh value.

  • Evidence attached to every row

    Each row must retain operator identity, observed value or null reason, sample size, inclusive coverage period, observation time, provenance and the complete metric definition. Input order must not change the result. Charger, device and location are distinct sample units and cannot be silently mixed.

Interpretation boundary

What the score cannot tell you

  • A percentile is relative to its eligible cohort

    It is not an absolute safety, service-quality or regulatory grade. Changing the comparable cohort can change percentiles even when an operator value does not change.

  • Source reporting is not an EV Evidence field measurement

    Operator-reported and independently observed evidence must stay labelled as such. Admission checks provenance, reuse permission and comparability; it does not turn a source claim into an EV Evidence measurement.

  • Network reliability is not a session guarantee

    The Public Charge Point Regulations 99% measure, if admitted as source evidence, concerns an operator's rapid network over a calendar year with the statutory scope and exemptions. It is not a promise that one charger, location, session or future visit will be available.

  • Price comparisons have a narrow scope

    Payment channel, location, power, subscription, roaming and time window can change what a driver pays. A price described as current must have been observed within seven days and retain those scope fields, its source URL and observation time. Incomparable or older values remain missing, historical or unknown instead of being converted or averaged.

  • Sample size is not uncertainty adjustment

    Passing the minimum does not make two sample designs identical and does not create a confidence interval. This method neither weights by sample size nor estimates an unpublished value.

  • Other evidence stays separate

    Report discoverability, OCPI access or freshness, raw observed status and OPSS public outcomes are not silently folded into this two-component score. If available, they must be shown as separately sourced fields. A report not found after a documented search is not evidence that it was not submitted or that an operator acted unlawfully.

  • No payment changes the method

    Sponsorship, affiliate relationships and commercial products do not add points, change eligibility, break ties or alter a safety classification.

Audit trail

Method version, licence and sources

Method identifiers and thresholds below come from the current E2 artefacts. Unknown values remain visibly unknown rather than being reconstructed from page copy.

Current scorecard evidence and licence record

  • uk-chargepoints-licence-audit

    NCR official archives are OGL v3.0; no archive snapshot or separately licensed current CPO feed was admitted.

    Licence: mixed-source-admissionVersion: uk-public-chargepoints-licence-review-2026-08-12Retrieved: 2026-08-12T20:00:00Z

    Open licence/source reference

Current evidence warning: No verified official NCR archive snapshot or separately licensed current CPO feed was available to this build.

Method provenance

Evidence admission rule: operator-level public evidence, including statutory operator disclosures where applicable, must retain provenance and a verified reuse basis. Public availability alone is not permission to republish. Unlicensed feeds and fixtures cannot populate the production scorecard.

This page documents the calculation and its evidence boundary. It does not certify an operator, predict charger availability or replace the source's own scope and definitions.