# UK Charging Solutions

> UK business EV charging: council charger data, charge times, charger sizing, grants, host income.

- name: uk.co.ukchargingsolutions/ev-charging
- version: 1.0.0
- connection class: R0 (autonomous)
- trust: 81/100 flags: no-repository
- quality: 85/100 (new)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/uk.co.ukchargingsolutions%2Fev-charging
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/uk.co.ukchargingsolutions%2Fev-charging/tools

**An agent can connect right now, no human step.** Remote endpoint, no authentication, reachable on the last probe.

## Connection (mcpServers)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ev-charging": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ukchargingsolutions.co.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```


## Trust

- hygiene: 80
- liveness: 94
- freshness: 100
- provenance: 55
- drivers: +dns-namespace +website +reachable +uptime-86% +updated-4d-ago -no-repository
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality 85/100 (new)

### protocol: 75 (weight 25)

- warn `protocol.modern`: newest supported version is 2025-06-18; 2026-07-28 not supported, older versions are deprecated until 2027-07-28
- n/a `protocol.stateless`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- n/a `protocol.list_ttl`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers

### authorization: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `auth.prm`, `auth.as_metadata`, `auth.cimd`: no remote uses OAuth
- n/a `auth.secret_in_url`: no templated URL

### tool hygiene: 93 (weight 30)

- pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description
- pass `tools.description_length`: descriptions are concise
- pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema
- pass `tools.annotations`: 9 of 9 tools declare readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
- warn `tools.directory_hints`: 1 of 9 tools declare all four hints; missing: charging_time (destructiveHint, idempotentHint); charger_size (destructiveHint, idempotentHint); grant_check (destructiveHint, idempotentHint); …
- pass `tools.token_cost`: about 1,820 tokens to load every tool
- pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump

### stability: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `stability.changes`, `stability.rug_pull`: tool history recorded for 3 of the 7 days needed

### dependencies: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: no npm or PyPI package

- tools: 9, about 1,820 tokens to load them all
- tool set hash: adf36fdeb0ed9e2f344c57bb70c11d27
- tools last changed: 2026-10-20T01:13:44.077Z
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/uk.co.ukchargingsolutions/ev-charging.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/uk.co.ukchargingsolutions/ev-charging)
- Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed.

### Tool changes

- 2026-10-20 `submit_enquiry` changed (inputSchema)
- 2026-10-18 `submit_enquiry` changed (inputSchema)
- 2026-10-18 `charging_cost` added
  - Cost of one charge, per mile and per 100 miles at the UK home price cap rate and average public and rapid pay-as-you-go prices (dated sources), plus an optional own price.
- 2026-10-18 `commercial_solar_cost` added
  - Average cost per kW for 10-50 kW solar (DESNZ, from MCS records), yearly generation at a reference city (PVGIS) and simple payback at the DESNZ small-business electricity price, for a Great Britain region.
- 2026-10-18 `business_electricity_prices` added
  - Latest quarterly price per kWh paid by UK businesses for electricity, by annual-use size band, including and excluding the Climate Change Levy, from DESNZ QEP tables 3.4.1 and 3.4.2. Statistics, not a quote.

Full history: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/uk.co.ukchargingsolutions%2Fev-charging/changes

## Remotes

- https://ukchargingsolutions.co.uk/mcp (streamable-http, auth none, reachable true, uptime30d 0.85714287)

## Packages

_none_

## Tools (9)

- `area_charging_facts`: Public and rapid EV chargers, chargers per 100,000 people, UK rank and plug-in vehicles for a UK council area, from Department for Transport data (EVCI0102, VEH0142).
- `business_electricity_prices`: Latest quarterly price per kWh paid by UK businesses for electricity, by annual-use size band, including and excluding the Climate Change Levy, from DESNZ QEP tables 3.4.1 and 3.4.2. Statistics, not a quote.
- `charger_size`: Suggests the slowest standard charger that adds the wanted miles within a typical stay, and the total load if every bay charges at once.
- `charging_cost`: Cost of one charge, per mile and per 100 miles at the UK home price cap rate and average public and rapid pay-as-you-go prices (dated sources), plus an optional own price.
- `charging_time`: How long an electric car takes to charge between two battery levels at a given charger power, with energy and approximate miles added.
- `commercial_solar_cost`: Average cost per kW for 10-50 kW solar (DESNZ, from MCS records), yearly generation at a reference city (PVGIS) and simple payback at the DESNZ small-business electricity price, for a Great Britain region.
- `grant_check`: Checks the Workplace Charging Scheme grant and the 100% first-year allowance for EV chargepoints, with official sources and checked dates.
- `host_income_estimate`: Compares upfront cost, yearly income and payback for fully funded, part funded and self funded chargers. Any input left out uses the example figures from the site's calculator; state the assumptions to the user.
- `submit_enquiry`: Sends the user's site details to UK Charging Solutions, which may pass them to an installer partner that may pay a referral fee. Only call this when the user asked to be contacted and agreed to share these details. Returns ok true when sent.