UK Chargemaster v Polar

[RJSATLBA]

I'm just looking at charging points for a route and have come across something I don't understand.

I thought Chargemaster and Polar were one and the same, with Polar just being a brand/app name. However, looking at the Cheltenham area on the Polar Instant app shows three chargers at Cheltenham racecourse, all at £7.50 per 30 mins, one of which is a CCS. But looking at the Chargemaster (alias BMW ChargeNow) live map doesn't show the racecourse at all, just a couple of chargers at the Toyota dealer, this doesn't appear on Polar Instant.

Can anybody shed any light on this please?

 

[BoMW]

Strange that both sites are not showing both stations but in my experience polar is part of chargemaster and my Chargenow card from bmw has worked on polar charge points. I must add that charging has not been guaranteed, last week in Milton keynes 3 polar stations failed to charge

 

[elptex]

What I have pieced together, could be wrong...

Polar, ChargeMaster, and ChargeNow are all interrelated, though not exclusively. Polar does the physical equipment; ChargeMaster does the hardware installation; ChargeNow does public infrastructure end-user delivery network. Polar equipment is used by other hardware installation companies and other end-user delivery networks. AFAIK, at one point ChargeMaster was doing both installation and end-user delivery and was, in some way, merged by ChargeNow (likely bought as ChargeNow is the biggest single network globally). ChargeMaster still appears to do private end-user delivery, so those installations are not listed in the ChargeNow network.