The charging experience starts before anyone plugs in a cable.

When a driver pulls into a parking garage with 40 charging stations across three levels, they should know exactly where to go – immediately, at a glance. For most drivers today, that’s not the case. They circle the garage and hope for the best.

One of our partners – a parking operator in Germany – decided to change that.

The challenge: data that exists, but isn’t visible

Every reev-managed charging station reports its status in real time: available, charging, occupied, faulted, offline. All of this is accessible through the reev API to any partner with API credentials.

The challenge wasn’t the data. It was getting that data onto a screen in a way anyone could understand – without a development team, without custom software, and without creating ongoing IT maintenance.

The solution: an open-source kiosk anyone can deploy

We built and open-sourced the reev Kiosk – a full-screen web application that connects to the reev API, pulls live charging station data, and displays it as a clean, color-coded grid. Each charging station appears as a colored tile: green for available, blue for actively charging, yellow for occupied but not charging, red for a fault. The display refreshes every 15 seconds.

Deploying it is a one-click process via Vercel. The operator enters their reev API credentials and receives a live URL within minutes – ready to open on any screen with a browser. Nothing to install. Nothing to maintain.

Total setup time: under two hours. Most of that is spent choosing brand colors.

Why this matters

A real-time display at the entrance changes the experience entirely. Drivers see which charging stations are free as they drive in and head straight there. Facility managers get a live view of their infrastructure’s health. And when a station goes offline, everyone knows immediately – not hours later when someone calls support.

It’s a small addition with a measurable impact on how people experience EV charging in a building. And it’s exactly what our API is designed to enable: tangible improvements to the day-to-day reality of eMobility – accessible to any partner, regardless of technical background.