EV Charging Networks: AI Visibility Market Discovery Index

Benchmark Summary

Questions This Section Answers

• Which EV charging network leads the October 2026 benchmark, and by how much?
• Which brands saw the largest recommendation coverage gains or declines this month?

In October 2026, EVgo leads the EV Charging Networks benchmark with a valid recommendation coverage of 9.8%, up from 5.4% in July 2026. The gap to the next brand, Electrify America, is 2.5 percentage points, as Electrify America reached 7.3% in October 2026, up from 5.4% in July 2026.

The largest coverage increase was for EVgo, which moved from 5.4% in July 2026 to 9.8% in October 2026, a rise of 4.4 percentage points. Two brands recorded significant coverage declines: ChargePoint Home (ChargePoint Holdings) fell from 28.3% in July 2026 to 0.0% in October 2026, and Tesla Wall Connector (Tesla, Inc.) fell from 26.2% in July 2026 to 0.0% in October 2026. Both leaders fell to zero, wiping out more than 26 points each.

The month registered significant movement in both directions. The benchmark began with 800 prompt-surface observations in each month and produced 509 qualified observations in October 2026 after qualification.

Current Benchmark at a Glance

Qualified surface breadth counts the number of canonical AI surface families with at least one qualified observation. The six families are ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, and AI Mode.

For the strategic interpretation of this benchmark, read CiteWorks Studio's analysis of How AI Search Is Recommending EV Charging Networks

Research Scope and Qualification

Questions This Section Answers

• How many observations were qualified for the public benchmark, and what happened to the rest?
• Why do brand-level percentages use qualified observations rather than the raw collection?

The public benchmark is narrower than the raw collection universe by design. The funnel below shows how observations were qualified.

Brand-level percentages use the qualified observations as the public denominator, not the raw collection. AI Visibility Market Discovery Methodology

Current Brand Standings

Questions This Section Answers

• Which EV charging networks rank highest on valid recommendation coverage?
• How do presence rate and top-three rate differ across the leading brands?

This table is the primary current-month benchmark view, sorted by valid recommendation coverage.

How to Read the Standings

• Presence rate: share of qualified observations where the brand is mentioned.
• Valid recommendation coverage: share of qualified observations where the brand receives a valid recommendation.
• Top-three rate: share of qualified observations where the brand appears in the top three recommendations.
• Rank-one rate: share of qualified observations where the brand is the first recommendation.
• Net sentiment: positive minus negative sentiment among mentions, normalized.

For formulas and denominator rules, see AI Visibility Market Discovery Metric Definitions.

Recommendation Coverage Movement

Questions This Section Answers

• Which brands moved beyond normal month-to-month variation since July 2026?
• What happened to ChargePoint Home and Tesla Wall Connector's recommendation coverage?

Largest Increase: EVgo

EVgo's valid recommendation coverage rose from 5.4% in July 2026 to 9.8% in October 2026, an increase of 4.4 percentage points, beyond normal month-to-month variation. EVgo also moved up from 6.3% in September 2026 to 9.8% in October 2026, a rise of 3.5 percentage points that also exceeded normal variation. Its top-three rate rose from 2.7% in July 2026 to 7.1% in October 2026, and its rank-one rate moved from 0.0% to 1.0%.

Largest Decline: ChargePoint Home (ChargePoint Holdings)

ChargePoint Home (ChargePoint Holdings) fell from 28.3% valid recommendation coverage in July 2026 to 0.0% in October 2026, a decline of 28.3 percentage points. The brand also declined from 30.5% in September 2026 to 0.0% in October 2026, a drop of 30.5 percentage points. Its presence rate moved from 71.1% to 0.0%, and its top-three rate fell from 24.7% to 0.0%.

Largest Decline: Tesla Wall Connector (Tesla, Inc.)

Tesla Wall Connector (Tesla, Inc.) fell from 26.2% valid recommendation coverage in July 2026 to 0.0% in October 2026, a decline of 26.2 percentage points. The brand also declined from 27.6% in September 2026 to 0.0% in October 2026, a drop of 27.6 percentage points. Its presence rate moved from 81.9% to 0.0%, and its rank-one rate fell from 11.5% to 0.0%.

Category Leader: EVgo

EVgo leads the category at 9.8% valid recommendation coverage in October 2026, up from 5.4% in July 2026. Electrify America follows at 7.3%, up from 5.4% in July 2026. Blink Charging, at 5.3%, reported the largest prior-to-current jump in the category, rising from 0.6% in September 2026 to 5.3% in October 2026, though its move since the July 2026 baseline remains within normal variation.

Recommendation Placement Snapshot

Questions This Section Answers

• Where do the leading EV charging networks actually place when recommended?
• How does rank-one rate differ from top-three rate across EVgo, Electrify America, and Blink Charging?

Coverage alone does not show how prominently a brand is recommended. The table below shows placement for the leading brands.

EVgo holds the highest top-three rate at 7.1% and the highest rank-one rate at 1.0%, while Electrify America and Blink Charging each held a rank-one rate of 0.2% in October 2026. Close coverage can still hide different first-position rates.

Buyer-Intent Distribution

Questions This Section Answers

• What buyer-intent classes does the current public series cover?
• Are Pricing & Value or Multi-Brand Comparison queries measured yet?

All qualified observations in both months fell into the Brand Recommendation class.

The current public series measures brand recommendation discovery only. It does not yet contain qualified observations in the Pricing & Value or Multi-Brand Comparison classes.

Historical Measurement Record

Questions This Section Answers

• How has the coverage leader changed across the July to October 2026 measurements?
• Which brands recorded the largest coverage swings across the historical record?

This is an evergreen benchmark URL. New measurements are added to the same report.

Leadership changed in October 2026, and the new leader holds a fraction of the former leader's coverage.

Evidence and Source Layer

The benchmark is built from prompt-level observations that retain the query, AI/search surface, answer, brand outcome, recommendation placement, sentiment, and where exposed, citations or attributable evidence sources. Source presence is evidence about the information environment, not proof that the source caused the recommendation.

Scope Boundaries

This public benchmark does not measure market share, attributable sales, every possible AI response, organic-search ranking, social mention volume, or private and sponsored channels. A metric movement alone does not establish causality.

Top 10 Cited Domains

Questions This Section Answers

• Which domains were cited most often across AI platform responses?
• How concentrated are citations among the top domains, and which brand domains appear?

Across all AI platform responses in this measurement period, 6,893 citations were observed, spanning 1,625 unique domains.

Citations are broadly distributed, with the top three domains accounting for just 18.6% of all citations and the remaining top-ten domains each holding under 2%. Three tracked brand domains appear in the top ten — blinkcharging.com (rank 4), evgo.com (rank 5), and chargepoint.com (rank 7) — alongside tesla.com (rank 9), the home domain of the Tesla-branded entries tracked in this vertical. General platforms and review or editorial sources dominate the remaining positions, with reddit.com, energysage.com, motortrend.com, and facebook.com cited alongside the two largest general sites, google.com and youtube.com.

About This Benchmark

The LLM Authority Index AI Visibility Market Discovery Index measures how AI and search surfaces discover, mention, and recommend brands across defined verticals. It is a neutral industry benchmark updated monthly.

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