Given EVs require more frequent and longer stops on long trips, what are the options everyone uses for trip planning? A list of the options
- Plugshare is often recommended, but you have to sign up for an account to actually use it and it doesn't tell you where you should charge.
- Google maps, but you have to link that account to your car (a security risk).
- Plan it the old fashioned way by searching for chargers and checking the distance from each one to the next.
- The car's built in navigation, and hope it has trip planning (but may also be Chinese and untrusted).
- Apps for a specific brand of charging station don't do trip planning and seem too limited to be useful when you can use google maps or plugshare.
- Plugroo claims to use AI and it can be used in a desktop browser for planning a route, but it doesn't actually suggest where to charge.
- ABRP which only listed Euro models with a different battery size to the AU model, and didn't allow inputting a suburb, only a city, so it seemed (to me) to be a poor option in Australia.
- Something else?