Evailable is closing: next steps and Evailable alternatives

What happened to Evailable?

On 7 October, E.ON confirmed to electrive that it is winding down Evailable, its AI business for charging reliability. According to the company, it reviewed several strategic options, including talks with potential investors and buyers, and found no viable way to continue.

E.ON hasn’t published a timeline for the wind-down or said what happens to existing customers. If your network uses Evailable, you probably have more questions than answers right now.

This article is for you. It covers the practical steps that protect your data and coverage, and how to choose an Evailable alternative without changing your CPMS.

What did Evailable do?

Evailable grew out of E.ON’s innovation work and later became part of E.ON One, the group’s software division. It built AI software for charge point operators that analyzed the OCPP data chargers already send, along with charging behavior and communication errors. The goal was to measure what Evailable called real availability: whether a charger that reports itself as available actually completes successful charging sessions (electrive).

As described publicly, its main features were:

• A health index that compared each charger with its own history and with chargers of the same model.
• Failure prediction, with possible outages flagged up to a week in advance.
• Automated actions, such as remote restarts for certain fault types.

Evailable sold to operators directly, and also offered its technology for integration into CPMS platforms and to charging hardware makers. It said it supported more than 75 charger models, and in September 2025 it reported serving CPOs in 14 countries (electrive interview).

Any Evailable alternative should cover the same ground: real availability, prediction, and automation.

Why does the problem still matter?

Evailable worked on a real problem: the gap between a charger being online and a charger actually charging. A station can report itself as available while sessions keep failing or run at a fraction of their power. Classic uptime numbers don’t show it, and drivers find out first.

That gap is why operators invested in charging intelligence in the first place. A provider closing doesn’t close the gap. If anything, the risk rises during the transition: alerts stop, automations go quiet, and silent failures pile up unnoticed.

So the goal for affected operators isn’t just to replace a tool. It’s to make sure their network is never left without that view.

What should Evailable customers do now? A five-step continuity plan

1. Get the dates and terms in writing. Ask your provider when service will end, what happens to your contract, and how long you’ll have access to the platform and your data. Plan around the earliest likely date, not the most hopeful one.
2. Secure your data. Export everything you can while access lasts: station health history, alert and incident logs, and any reports you rely on. That history is your baseline for whatever comes next, and for proving reliability to partners and regulators.
3. Map what depended on it. List every process the tool fed: alerts routed to field teams, automated restarts, maintenance planning, management reports. Each one needs an owner and a fallback.
4. Cover the gap. Until a replacement is live, use the session data your CPMS already holds. Watch for sessions that stay connected but deliver no energy, repeated failed starts, and stations whose success rate drops. It’s manual and incomplete, but it beats flying blind.
5. Choose the replacement on more than features. Use the checklist below to compare any Evailable alternative, including ours.

How to choose an Evailable alternative

A good Evailable alternative covers what the tool did, without creating the same risk again. These are the questions to ask any provider.

The bigger question: whose AI is it?

This isn’t a story about one company. Corporate ventures get reprioritized, partnerships end, and vendors change hands. It happens in every software market.

The real question for operators is how exposed their operations are when it does. Intelligence that your field teams and drivers depend on every day is not a side feature. Before you rely on it, it’s worth knowing who builds it, how central it is to their business, and what your plan is if that changes.

When you evaluate any provider, including us, ask them directly.

Is EV Network Intelligence an Evailable alternative?

Yes. EV Network Intelligence addresses the same problem: the gap between a charger being online and actually charging. It is built and developed by Solidstudio, the team behind the platform running 60,000+ public charge points under management across our clients. It’s a native module of our CPMS and a standalone product on any other CPMS, so there’s no re-platforming and no downtime. You can start on part of your network, prove the value, then scale.

It analyzes every charging session to catch silent failures, tell real faults from harmless failed attempts, and point to the root cause, with 97% accuracy on anomaly types. In one operator’s network over a three-month period, it found 950 charging attempts that delivered no energy at all.

If your network relies on Evailable today, we’re happy to walk you through how EV Network Intelligence would work on your setup. Book a demo

Coming at the end of October: an on-demand webinar with Solidstudio CEO Paweł Małkowiak on silent failures and the AI that finds them.

Frequently asked questions

Is Evailable shutting down?

E.ON confirmed to electrive on 7 October 2026 that it is winding down Evailable’s business.

What did Evailable do?

Evailable built AI software that analyzed charger OCPP data to measure real availability, predict failures up to a week ahead and automate actions such as remote restarts. It served operators directly and through CPMS and hardware integrations.

What are the alternatives to Evailable?

Operators can look at AI monitoring built into some CPMS platforms, or at standalone network-intelligence products that work across CPMS. Solidstudio’s EV Network Intelligence is a standalone Evailable alternative that runs on any CPMS, or natively inside the Solidstudio CPMS.

Is there an Evailable alternative that works with any CPMS?

Yes. EV Network Intelligence runs as a standalone product on any CPMS, so you can replace Evailable without changing platforms.

When will Evailable stop providing service?

As of 13 October, E.ON hasn’t published a timeline. Ask your provider directly, and plan around the earliest likely date.

What should I do with my Evailable data?

Export station health history, alert and incident logs, and reports while you still have access. It’s your baseline for whatever replaces it.

Do I need to change my CPMS to replace it?

Not with EV Network Intelligence. It runs as a native module of the Solidstudio CPMS or as a standalone product on any other CPMS.