Alternative Fueling Stations

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

About this app

The Alternative Fueling Station Locator app helps you find fueling stations that offer electric vehicle charging, natural gas, biodiesel, renewable diesel, ethanol (E85), propane, and hydrogen.

With this app, you can search and filter for stations nearby. You can view stations on a map or see a list of stations. When you select a station, you can see contact information and other details:
- address, phone number, and hours of operation
- payment types accepted
- public or private access
- special services
- compression (natural gas)
- vehicle size access (natural gas)
- number and types of chargers (electric)
- blends available (biodiesel)
- blender pumps (ethanol)

The app draws information from the U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels Data Center, which houses the most comprehensive, up-to-date database of alternative fueling stations in the United States and Canada.

Ratings and reviews

App is useful to find alternative fuel stations, although limited in functionality. It only loads stations if you enter a location. It would be useful if you could scroll the map to a location and have a 'search here' function like Google Maps. Also, it seems the Google Maps license of the developer has expired (again), since every time you open the app you get the message 'This page can't load Google Maps correctly.' Please fix.

Uses Google Maps API incorrectly (keeps showing an error all the time and says it’s for development purposes only). Overall, the app is pretty ugly and useless: pins on the map are hard to press, no filter on electric charger connector, only shows stations within a small radius, you can’t just scroll the map and see what is around.

This app gives me more EV charging stations than any other app. It shows the countless different companies/brands and shows their names. There's a Google Maps error that pops up every time but it doesn't seem to effect anything. There just needs to be an option to leave notes. Los Angeles.

What's new

This update shows more station details to align with the website version. It also makes it possible to suggest changes to station details and submit new stations.