Last updated: 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 and Open Charge Map — open, community-maintained datasets 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 This is inherently a snapshot from whoever last reported — it can be wrong, outdated, or contradicted by the next report.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. So unless a station has an official operator feed reporting real stock levels, Refuelia only ever shows a status: available, limited, out of stock, or unknown. We will never invent a specific quantity.
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, that raises the station's trust score. When reports conflict, we show it honestly as mixed reports rather than picking one arbitrarily.
Anyone 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.