# Blink Charging

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/blink-charging/  
**Website:** https://blinkcharging.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Blink Charging Co. (Nasdaq BLNK) is a United States electric vehicle charging company headquartered at 17301 Melford Boulevard, Bowie, Maryland, with additional offices in California, the United Kingdom, Belgium and India. It designs and sells Level 2 and DC fast chargers (Series 7, 8 and 9, Shasta, the EQ/PQ line and the HYC DC fast chargers), owns and operates chargers under both owner-operator and host-owned business models, and runs the Blink Network - the proprietary cloud platform behind its host portal, driver mobile app and fleet management product. In the energy value chain Blink is a charge point operator and a load on the distribution grid, not a utility, retailer or system operator. It publishes no electricity usage, tariff, grid or market data of its own, and no consumer energy data right obligation applies to it in its home market of the United States - Green Button is a voluntary NAESB/NIST standard aimed at utilities, and Blink is not a utility. Its API posture is a closed door behind a live legal surface. The Blink Network Terms and Conditions, last modified 2 December 2025, explicitly govern "the Blink API" and state that use is "under your username", but no live developer portal, API reference, base URL or machine-readable contract is published anywhere on blinkcharging.com. The historical BlinkMap API developer page at prod.blinknetwork.com/developer.html - an application form gated by a Blink Network, LLC Data License Agreement - now refuses connections and was last archived in July 2021. The only live data-access surface Blink publishes is a United Kingdom open data request page citing the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023, where a Google Form request is reviewed by Blink's data team, shared with the aggregator Eco-Movement and answered "in api format" - an application-approval gate, not an open feed. Blink's real standards adoption sits below the API layer: OCPP 2.0.1 certification for its Series 7, 8 and 9 chargers announced September 2025, and OpenADR 2.0 approval for the Blink Network announced March 2020 enabling utility load management across its charging network.

## Kin Score — 21.6 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 21.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 32.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Security (3)

- **Blink Charging Authentication** — 0 schemes
- **Blink Charging Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Blink Charging Trust Center** — trust center published

## Tags

Energy, United States, EV Charging, Electric Vehicles, Charging Stations, Grid, Demand Response, Fleet Management, OCPP, OpenADR, Roaming

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/blink-charging/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.