Octopus Electroverse 4+

Amazing app and card which makes travel on EV in Europe much-much easier! Thank you for such a great product.

A few suggestions how to make it even better, although some of those improvements may not be easy or quick to implement:

1) Integration with cars app
Like in Tesla, which can automatically map out a few chargers depending on your battery status and anticipated route. I know about the map planner in the app, but it requires battery status input every time you use it, would be easier if it can feed it from the car directly. Plus it doesn’t take into account other parameters which may impact my preference on the go, such as cafe & restaurants nearby (see p. 2 below), number of chargers (I try to avoid single chargers as they often can be broken or busy), price per kwh (see p. 3 below), etc.

2) Add info about cafe & restaurants nearby
Given that charging normally takes 30-60 minutes it is worth having info about cafes or grocery shops nearby. Right now if I don’t want to sit in the middle of nowhere, but prefer to have a lunch or coffe while my car is being charged I have to do a research switching between Google Maps and Electroverse in an attempt to optimise my travel experience.

3) Add pricing filter
Sometimes it is not only about speed of charging, but money. Right now I have to click on every charger to check the price and choose an optimum one. Would be great to have that feature!

Hey! Thank you for your review - it's great to have you with us! Thanks for your suggestions too - community feedback is really useful for us, and we'll pass this on to the team. We also like to charge ourselves up on coffee whilst our gets a boost. Happy charging - the Electroverse Team

I’m new to EV ownership and planning a route. So far charging at home has been enough for me. I’ve tried several apps I found this one to be one of the easiest apps to plan a route with. I really like the route list showing the likely charge at each step of the way and how long it is likely to take to achieve a specific charge at each of the selected charge stations. I’ll know soon how accurate this is going to be when I use my first planned route to my holiday destination. I will be travelling with others in their own cars so it would be really useful if I could share my planned route by email etc with them. It would also be nice to be able to select a satellite view of the map when planning a route. It does not seem possible to edit a saved route, only delete it or am I missing something. It would also be useful to alter if I could alter the order of the list by dragging up or down the list instead of deleting it and adding it again. I just tried the new CarPlay app in my 2020 Kona and tried to use my new saved route but it doesn’t work. I found and selected my saved route. It said it was from Manor Lane, Hampshire to SA44 4XA. I then selected go but it started my route from Chepstow. Even then it was not showing Chepstow on the map, I had to zoom out to see the route.

Hey! Thank you for the great review - and the kind words! we especially love it when someone is new to the EV community. Your feedback is really useful - we're working on some improvements to the route planner right now, so watch this space. Have a lovely holiday! The Electroverse team

We used Electroverse for charging our Tesla for the first time in rural France & found it incredibly easy to use. There were so many chargers available to us through the app & the information given in the app was brilliant for finding the best charger in the area. We never encountered a problem - as another reviewer had said just plug in, swipe the card & there you go. We did find one location where chargers had been duplicated (one set of two was apparently out of use while, in the same location, an apparently different set of two was working perfectly) but that was the only problem encountered. We had expected to find the charging side of things a bit stressful on our holiday but, thanks to Electroverse, exactly the opposite was the case.

Hi, Shonamole. Thanks for the review and the kind words! It's great to have you with us. We hope you had a good time driving in France. It sounds like the data has been duplicated for that particular charger, so we'd like to fix that! If you wouldn't mind sending across the location (hello@theelectroverse.com), we'll take a look. In addition, if you'd to send any feedback/comments, that would be very welcomed - we really value community feedback and would love to hear from you! Happy driving, the Electroverse team.