About Bolt EV
Built by the people who actually solved EV payments.
Bolt EV is the payments infrastructure for EV charging, from Optechain. We've spent years in the hardest parts of this problem — multi-country rollouts, fiscalization, the cases nobody else wants to own — and turned them into infrastructure any operator can plug into.
Live in production
national-scale network
Multi-country
fiscalization handled
OCPI Full-Contributor
we help write the standard
Built to standard
We don't just run to the standard. We help write it.
A Full-Contributor seat on the Open Charge Alliance — the body behind OCPI — means we're in the room when the rules change, not reading about them afterward. It's a governance role, not a logo wall: the operators we serve get a payments layer that's early to every revision, never late.
OCPI Full-Contributor
a governance seat on the standard the industry runs on
Built to standard · live in production
Why we exist
Paying for a charge shouldn't require building a payments company.
AFIR made ad-hoc card payments mandatory, but making them actually work means wiring together terminals, acquirers, charging networks, and invoicing — worlds that were never built to talk. Every operator was rebuilding the same wheel, then re-maintaining it forever. We built the layer that solves it once, for the whole market — neutral on terminal, acquirer, and CSMS.
Proven at national scale
Proven at national scale.
Multi-country, ad-hoc payments running in production, country-specific fiscalization handled — with nothing ripped out of the operator's stack.
What makes us different
Depth, not features
Multi-country, AFIR, country-specific fiscalization & tax-authority interconnect, reconciliation, and the cases nobody likes to talk about — solved in production with national-scale charging networks.
Neutral by design
Any terminal, any acquirer, any CSMS. You keep your stack and your money — your bank stays your bank.
Standards leaders
A Full-Contributor to the Open Charge Alliance — the body behind OCPI — so we help shape the standard the industry runs on.
From the founder
"We built the hard, invisible part — so the whole market can move faster."