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If you’re heading out in your EV, an EV route planner app will help you plan charging stops along your route. With so many different journey planning tools available for electric car drivers, which is the best? Back in 2022 we started testing the top apps and tools – and we’ve just done it all again to keep you up-to-date.
When we do it right, a long journey in our EV is effortless, and the farm shops and other places we find add a bit more colour to our journey. But, yes we do spend a little longer at motorway service stations than we’d like.
To go back to basics, when we talk about ‘planning’ we mean the following:
EV planners should also help when plans change – with a good map that shows all the charge points around and checks that they are available.
Some EV planning apps also take the headache out of paying for your charging. Zap Map have a Zap Pay, and Octopus Energy’s Electroverse lets you charge your charging to your home energy bill.
1. Stop charging when you get to 80% (any more takes much longer); 2. Plan to stop driving at 20% (better for both battery and peace of mind); 3. Stick to the best networks. Our top picks are: Instavolt, Osprey, MFG and Gridserve.
The good news is that road trips in an electric car are getting easier and easier, with faster chargers – and more of them – dotted across the UK. But, although there are more chargers and they are more reliable, there are also more EVs on the road, so you are still better off doing a little planning before you set off on a long trip. Here are the top eight EV route planning apps we tested:
Zap-MapABRP (A Better Route Planner)Watts UpGoogle MapsPlugshareEV NavigationOctopus ElectroverseBonnet
For each app we asked it to plan a 250-mile route from Aberystwyth, Wales to Essex in a VW ID.3. Here are the top three that we’ll be reaching for on our own road-trips…
Key features include search, filters, list of nearby chargers, detailed info on each charging point, Zap-Chat community feature and a smart route-planner.
There''s a free version, that allows you to do basically everything you may need. Zap Map ‘map’ has a bewildering number of pins because it shows all the available chargers, even the slowest 3kW chargers. You can filter these out to show only rapids. It shows you the cost and the availability (according to the charger itself) plus the hours or days since the last charge. Users often report chargers that are out of action. This gives you an idea of how reliable and/or busy the charger is.
The premium version costs £29.99 per year, and give you a few extra features, like What3words navigation, filters that show the numbers of chargers in any location and charger ratings to help you avoid the less reliable chargers. You have to pay for premium to get Android Auto and Apple CarPlay display in your car screen. And you’ll get a 5% discount when using Zap Pay.
Live data shows a blue marker around charge point icons when at least one is in use. But you can’t see at a glance whether this means there’s a charger free. Networks include: Instavolt, Osprey, Gridserve, MFG, BP Pulse, ESB, GeniePoint, Fastned, Ionity, Tesla, Shell, ChargePlace Scotland,
✔ Community chat is well used so you can see if a charger has had issues recently✘ Colours of charger pins in the map aren’t very intuitive (note: we found out how to get a handy symbols key in the app)
A Better Route Planner (ABRP) is an app that guides you through the quickest way to arrive at your destination. It’s a website and an app for both Android and iOS devices.
A Better Route Planner is a smart, fun, and easy-to-use itinerary maker that lets you plot out routes in the most efficient way possible.
A Better Route Planner focuses on route planning and navigation specifically for electric vehicles. You have to simply select your vehicle model, enter your destination, and hit the big blue plan button to get a full planned route, including charging stations and trip duration.
It has a very simple interface. But change mode and you can see the hills on the route where you could use the most energy. Users say the results are very accurate, taking into account temperature and road conditions. Tesla drivers even prefer it to the Tesla Planner as it favours more charges within the efficient ''fast'' charging zone of your battery than the Tesla app.
The free version allows you to share to Google Maps to get live traffic updates. The premium version has traffic built-in.
✔ Accurate predictions on range
Electroverse is our top pick. Even if you aren’t an Octopus Energy customer, you can join the Electroverse charging network. Sign up and they send you a card so you can pay for charging through your home energy bill or on a registered card. You can even pay through the app itself. You don’t pay any more, but often pay less. Ionity offer a 5% discount and on some networks there is a discount for using chargers off-peak or when the green energy is flowing. Osprey will give you 20% off for charging after 7pm.
Most chargers are covered, but we like the fact that the map shows you rapid chargers (namely Tesla and Gridserve) that aren’t on the network. The only charger we’ve spotted that’s not on there was a 7kW Pod Point charger at Tescos.
Better still, the Electroverse card works across Europe. We drove through France to Italy using our card at every rapid charger on the way.
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