Services · Mobile app development · EV charging apps
Codeeo offers EV charging app development Birmingham operators, fleets and site hosts can use to run chargers across the city and the wider West Midlands. We build driver apps, operator back offices and workplace portals for residential lamppost charging, rapid hubs near the Clean Air Zone and depots by the motorway network, with OCPP connections to your hardware and OCPI links to other networks.
Our 80+ strong team is based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US. We have no Birmingham office. We work remotely with clients in the city, and scoping, design reviews and demos are held by video call.
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What we build for Birmingham
Birmingham's charging picture has a few clear threads. The city council has put chargers on residential lampposts for households without a driveway, delivered with Shell Recharge under a government funded pilot. A rapid and fast network with ESB Energy opened its first hub on Navigation Street. The Clean Air Zone inside the A4540 Middleway ring road has pushed taxi drivers and van operators towards cleaner vehicles. And across the region, the West Midlands Combined Authority is procuring on-street charging for its seven member councils through LEVI concessions. An app built for this market has to work for a resident in Handsworth plugging in overnight, a cab driver on a shift around New Street, and a logistics manager with vans on the M6 corridor. The capabilities below reflect those three groups, in the order most Birmingham clients ask for them.
Simple screens for households with no off-street parking: find the nearest lamppost point, check whether it is free, start a session with an app or card, and get a receipt in the morning. We add reminders when the session ends so a neighbour waiting for the same lamppost is not kept out all evening.
Residents without driveways treat the lamppost as their home charger.
A West Midlands concession can span Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton. The back office reports usage, uptime and faults per council, with separate exports for each authority and one consolidated view for the combined authority.
Each council gets its own figures from one platform.
Electric vehicles meet the Clean Air Zone standard, so the app can show chargers inside and around the Middleway with clear notes on access and parking, helping drivers who come into the zone for work plan where to top up. We keep the wording factual and link changes in council rules to an admin setting.
Drivers entering the city centre know where to charge.
Hackney carriage and private hire drivers licensed by Birmingham City Council can join under one firm account, with shared billing, per driver limits and statements by week. Rapid bays favoured by cab drivers show live status so a driver between fares can choose the closest free unit.
Cab firms manage charging costs for every driver in one place.
For distribution sites near the M5, M6 and M42, we build depot charging schedules that fit vans around shift patterns and grid limits, plus roaming access to public rapids for drivers out on routes. Reports show energy per vehicle and per route for operations and finance.
Vans leave the depot charged and public top ups are tracked.
Offices around Colmore Row, Brindleyplace and the Jewellery Quarter can run staff charging with booking, fair use rules and payroll friendly reports. Visitors can be given guest access for a single day, and the employer decides whether staff pay, share costs or charge free.
Staff charging is fair, booked and easy to report.
For new public chargers of 8 kW or more and all rapid units, contactless is required, so the app sits alongside card readers rather than replacing them. Prices are shown in pence per kilowatt hour before a session and held for its full length, and the back office keeps a record of the tariff that applied.
Payment and pricing meet the 2023 regulations.
Connector level monitoring with automatic tickets to the maintenance contractor covering that part of the city, and a yearly rapid network reliability figure against the 99% requirement. Recurring faults on the same unit are flagged for hardware review.
Faults are fixed quickly and uptime is evidenced.
Birmingham is home to large South Asian, Caribbean, African and Eastern European communities. We plan content so key instructions and receipts can be offered in the languages your own user data shows are needed, starting small and adding more as usage grows.
Fewer abandoned sessions from drivers unsure of the steps.
Location, tariff and live availability data published through OCPI 2.2.1, free and machine readable, as the regulations require. Route planners and map apps used by drivers heading into Birmingham from the M5 or M6 then show your chargers correctly, and the combined authority can pull the same feed for regional planning without asking you for spreadsheets.
Your sites appear accurately in every map drivers use.
Who this is for
The city's charging market includes national operators chasing regional concessions, local taxi and logistics businesses, and employers adding chargers to car parks. Each brings different hardware and different reporting needs. We explain below where each usually starts and what goes into the first release, so you can judge quickly whether our approach fits your plans. Students at the University of Birmingham and Aston are another growing group of drivers, though usually as users of public networks rather than as clients.
Your contract covers on-street chargers across several councils and the combined authority wants regular evidence of usage and reliability. We build council level reporting, a resident friendly app and contractor dispatch first, then roaming and open data feeds. Tender responses often need a clear description of the software, and we can supply technical material for that. We also plan for the handover risk: if the concession changes hands, councils will want data that can move, so we keep exports clean and well documented.
Council reporting built in from the first sprint.
Your drivers moved to electric partly because of the Clean Air Zone and now charge across public networks. You want one account, weekly statements per driver and a way to see which rapid sites are free near the city centre. We build a branded fleet app on top of roaming agreements with existing networks, so you do not need chargers of your own to start. Later, if you add rapid units at your own base, they join the same app and account structure.
Your vans or trucks run from a depot near the motorway junctions and need predictable overnight charging within a fixed grid connection. We build scheduling and load management for the depot, a driver app for public top ups and reporting that links each kilowatt hour to a vehicle and route.
Depot schedules built around your shift pattern.
You host a handful of chargers for staff, visitors or paying public and need an easy way to run them. We build booking, access rules and billing that suit your site, with a light admin panel your facilities team can manage without training. If the chargers are public, the regulated duties are covered too. Car park owners near the Bullring or the ICC area often want charging tied to their parking payment, and we can connect the two so drivers pay once.
How we work
For a new concession or fleet app, a fixed scope first release is usually right. Once live, a monthly retainer covers new hardware, councils, roaming partners and changes in guidance. Operators planning several years of growth across the West Midlands sometimes prefer a dedicated team of engineers and testers who stay with the product. Each model runs remotely by video call, with a shared backlog you can open at any time. For a custom EV charging app development Birmingham project, we agree reporting formats with the councils involved before build starts, so the numbers they receive match what their contracts ask for.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We typically use React Native or native Swift and Kotlin for apps, Node.js or .NET for OCPP and OCPI services, and AWS or Azure with UK region hosting where your contracts require it. Choices are made with your internal team so they can maintain the product after handover.
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It depends on the number of councils, chargers and integrations in the first release.
A fleet app built on roaming access to existing networks is the quickest route. A concession platform that manages lampposts and rapids directly over OCPP, reports to several councils and publishes open data takes longer. We set dates once discovery has fixed the scope, then show a working build every two weeks so you always know where the project stands. Waiting on council sign off or hardware delivery can affect dates, so we note those dependencies in the plan.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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