Octopus Energy has launched Octopus Charge in the US, Canada and Mexico, aggregating more than 210,000 chargers from over 20 networks with no markup on energy prices. Its European equivalent covers 1.5 million chargers across more than 40 countries.
A British energy company has put more than 210,000 North American chargers behind a single login. Octopus Energy’s new Octopus Charge app covers the United States, Canada and Mexico, with one payment method for every network it supports.
The commercial promise is that it takes nothing. Octopus says it passes each operator’s own per-kWh price through untouched, so a stall charging $0.50 costs $0.50 in the app.
The interesting figure is the one from home. Octopus Electroverse, the European original launched in 2020, reaches roughly 1.5 million chargers across more than 1,500 networks in over 40 countries.
The American version has around two dozen networks. That gap is not a failure of engineering, it is a description of two different markets, one of which had the charging chaos legislated out of it.
