Status is the real-time state of charging equipment: a connector may be AVAILABLE, CHARGING (in use), RESERVED or OUT_OF_ORDER, and a station rolls those up into an overall availability picture. This is the data that answers the single most common driver question — "can I actually charge here right now?"
Live status is the hardest data to keep accurate because it changes constantly and depends on each operator’s feed being fresh and reliable. Stale or missing status is worse than none: sending a driver to an occupied or broken charger erodes trust immediately.
The useful unit of status is the connector, then aggregated to the station (for example, "4 of 6 connectors available"). Because standards and power differ per connector, station-level counts alone can mislead — a station can show availability while every fast connector is busy.
In the Data for EV model
Data for EV tracks status at the connector level with timestamps and freshness metadata, then rolls it up to station-level counts such as available_connector_count — with live coverage refreshed in under a minute across the Türkiye dataset.