cheapest_charging_along_route
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Find the best EV charge points along a route, with the REAL extra travel time of stopping at each one — never a straight-line guess. Provide origin + destination (a route is computed) or an existing route's geometry_polyline6, plus optional connectors ("ccs", "type2", "chademo", "type1", "tesla", "domestic", "other"), min_kw (e.g. 50 for rapid only), available_only and max_detour_minutes (default 10). Charge points come from operator-published feeds, are costed through the routing engine with your costing (a truck profile makes detours respect dimensional/ADR restrictions) and ranked most powerful first, since minutes off the clock are bought with kilowatts. Each result carries max_power_kw, connector_standards, best_connector, evse_count, detour_minutes/detour_km and, where a live feed backs it, available_now. IMPORTANT: there is no national charge-point registry — every deployment covers only the operators it has onboarded, so ALWAYS show the returned coverage_note alongside the results. An empty results means "none from these operators within the detour budget", NEVER "there are no chargers here". Statuses are live only when availability_live is true; otherwise they are the values captured at the last ingest and must not be described as current. Requires the MapMap gateway; answers a clear error when the deployment has no charge-point dataset. Display the returned charging_attribution with the results.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| available_only | boolean | null | no | Keep only charge points with a bay reported free right now. Needs the deployment to have a live availability feed; without one the call is refused rather than silently returning nothing. |
| connectors | array | null | no | Keep only charge points offering at least one of these connector standards: "type2", "type1", "ccs", "chademo", "tesla", "domestic" or "other". Omitted ⇒ every standard. |
| costing | any | no | Costing model for the route and detour matrix: "auto" (default), "truck", "bicycle", "pedestrian" or "motor_scooter". |
| destination | any | no | Route destination. |
| geometry_polyline6 | string | null | no | An existing route geometry as an encoded polyline6 (the `route` tool's `geometry_polyline6`). Provide either this or `origin` + `destination`, not both. |
| max_detour_minutes | number | null | no | Largest acceptable detour in minutes (default 10, at most 120). |
| max_results | integer | null | no | Maximum results (default 5, at most 25). |
| min_kw | number | null | no | Keep only charge points whose best connector is rated at least this many kW (e.g. 50 for rapid charging only). |
| origin | any | no | Route origin (with `destination`, when no geometry is given). |
| truck | any | no | Truck profile (dimensions + ADR declaration). Requires costing "truck"; the detours then respect dimensional/ADR restrictions. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"$defs": {
"CostingKind": {
"description": "Costing models exposed by the MCP tools (a deliberate subset of the\nValhalla costing list), serialised in snake_case exactly as Valhalla\nnames them.",
"oneOf": [
{
"const": "auto",
"description": "Standard car costing.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "truck",
"description": "Truck costing; honours dimensional limits and, when a `truck`\nprofile is supplied, ADR dangerous-goods restrictions.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "bicycle",
"description": "Bicycle costing; tune it with a `bicycle` options object.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "pedestrian",
"description": "Pedestrian (walking) costing; tune it with a `pedestrian` options\nobject (lit streets, wheelchair/blind, hiking difficulty).",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "motor_scooter",
"description": "Motor scooter (moped) costing: like auto but prefers lower-speed\nroads and may use ways closed to larger motor vehicles.",
"type": "string"
}
]
},
"LatLon": {
"description": "A WGS84 coordinate pair in decimal degrees.",
"properties": {
"lat": {
"description": "Latitude in decimal degrees (−90 to 90).",
"format": "double",
"type": "number"
},
"lon": {
"description": "Longitude in decimal degrees (−180 to 180).",
"format": "double",
"type": "number"
}
},
"required": [
"lat",
"lon"
],
"type": "object"
},
"TruckSpec": {
"description": "Truck profile for routing: physical dimensions plus the ADR\ndangerous-goods declaration. Omitted dimensions default to the EU\nmaximum authorised dimensions of Council Directive 96/53/EC (4.0 m\nheight, 2.55 m width, 16.5 m length, 40 t gross weight).",
"properties": {
"gross_weight_t": {
"description": "Gross combination weight in metric tonnes.",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"hazmat": {
"default": false,
"description": "Whether the vehicle carries dangerous goods (ADR). Defaults to\nfalse.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"height_m": {
"description": "Vehicle height in metres.",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"length_m": {
"description": "Vehicle length in metres.",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"tunnel_code": {
"description": "ADR 8.6.4 tunnel restriction code of the load, e.g. \"B\", \"C5000D\",\n\"B/D\", or \"(—)\"/\"none\" for explicitly unrestricted. Leave unset if\nunknown: a hazmat load without a code is conservatively treated as\ncode B (allowed only through category-A tunnels).",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"width_m": {
"description": "Vehicle width in metres.",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
}
},
"type": "object"
}
},
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"available_only": {
"description": "Keep only charge points with a bay reported free right now. Needs\nthe deployment to have a live availability feed; without one the\ncall is refused rather than silently returning nothing.",
"type": [
"boolean",
"null"
]
},
"connectors": {
"description": "Keep only charge points offering at least one of these connector\nstandards: \"type2\", \"type1\", \"ccs\", \"chademo\", \"tesla\", \"domestic\"\nor \"other\". Omitted ⇒ every standard.",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": [
"array",
"null"
]
},
"costing": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/CostingKind",
"default": "auto",
"description": "Costing model for the route and detour matrix: \"auto\" (default),\n\"truck\", \"bicycle\", \"pedestrian\" or \"motor_scooter\"."
},
"destination": {
"anyOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/$defs/LatLon"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "Route destination."
},
"geometry_polyline6": {
"description": "An existing route geometry as an encoded polyline6 (the `route`\ntool's `geometry_polyline6`). Provide either this or `origin` +\n`destination`, not both.",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"max_detour_minutes": {
"description": "Largest acceptable detour in minutes (default 10, at most 120).",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"max_results": {
"description": "Maximum results (default 5, at most 25).",
"format": "uint32",
"minimum": 0,
"type": [
"integer",
"null"
]
},
"min_kw": {
"description": "Keep only charge points whose best connector is rated at least this\nmany kW (e.g. 50 for rapid charging only).",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"origin": {
"anyOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/$defs/LatLon"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "Route origin (with `destination`, when no geometry is given)."
},
"truck": {
"anyOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/$defs/TruckSpec"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "Truck profile (dimensions + ADR declaration). Requires costing\n\"truck\"; the detours then respect dimensional/ADR restrictions."
}
},
"type": "object"
}