Chargeway 4+

Great App & Trip Planner

So I’m shockingly surprised just how accurate this app is. I took a 853 miles road trip using this app. It showed all the stop points to charge and the time it would take to charge. A simple click on your next charge point show you your arrival SOC and how long to charge. To my surprise it was extremely accurate for my 2020 Kia Niro EV. Routing to the next charge point you could choose Apple, Google or Waze map. I simple love this app. Tesla, Ford and Rivian has great trip planners in their vehicle. If your vehicle don’t have one you can definitely use Chargeway as your next trip planner. It’s simply layed and very easy to use. I highly recommend this app. It’s also great to use around town as well. You can’t go wrong with this. If you don’t have ABRP premium this is the app to use. Bravo team Chargeway. Very well done. Very well done!!!!

Developer Response ,

Thank you! This is great feedback and our entire team really appreciates hearing that our app is providing drivers what they need for trip planning an station finding for any EV. We want to help everyone enjoy the EV they choose more easily, so thank you for letting us know that your experience has been so positive!

Better suggestions

I have 9 EV charging apps on my phone because each app is excellent at one or more aspects of the experience but no one app is good at all aspects. In my opinion, an excellent app has to:
1) show me the eligible chargers at my current location and display how long/fast the charging will be at each unit. Also display which units are being currently used. 2) plan several routes of a trip, show the best charging options along each route and again delineate how long/fast I’ll be charging at each station then let me choose which route works best for me. 2a) understand that the best EV route is not always the google maps route. 3) Show amenities, food, activities, shopping around the EV charger where time can be occupied while charging. 4) offer user reviews of the charging station. This app comes close but doesn’t perform 2 very well. On a trip a recently took, one of the stops it recommended for all three routes recommended I charge for 4.5 hours. I don’t do these trips often but no way am I turning an 8 hour trip to one of 12+. So I use another app to plan my route and this one for other things.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your feedback! This is a great breakdown of features that EV apps should provide to drivers. It's not easy to do it all, but we are very glad to hear that we offer a lot of features you enjoy. 

We are always working on improving features, including the trip planner. If you prefer to not use the route selected or offered, custom routes can be created by adding midpoints within the trip planner settings. If there are any questions you have please do not hesitate to contact us through the app in your Account screen by tapping "Contact Us". Thank you again for your feedback!

A great resource in the EV world

Easy and robust. The trip planning feature is excellent in identifying charging stations with your car’s compatible chargers. And clicking on the station lets you know speed and number of chargers, as well as amenities in the area. The app also provides the soc on arrival and departure from the station. Their customer support is second to none. I recently contacted them via their app, and rec’d a response the same day. I was contacted by a rep who gave me one-on-one tutoring on using the app. As someone who is not very techy, this was extremely helpful. I am taking my first long road trip with my EV in a few weeks, and will do so with much more confidence. The Chargeway Team is committed to standing out as the gold standard EV app.