New EV Route-finding app

[emichnov]

I tried a route from Acton, MA to Oxford, NY (try it yourself to see my results). It had me stop twice; the first stop at a chargepoint charging station at Westfield state uninversary, but it showed the charger as if it was along the highway -it is not as shown in the screenshot ( charger shown on the highway, but the charger is location at WSU show at the bottom of the image).

Plugshare shows this charger is faculty only: https://www.plugshare.com/location/608221.

The second stop, at a Tesla station, was fine and will be my first (not second) stop as I have the range to get there.

So 3 problems; the mapping is wrong, it doesn't know the range of my car, and we shouldn't be routed to restricted chargers.

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[music_cities]

Sadly not yet available for Canada .

I tried a route from Sweetgrass MT to Point Reyes Station CA and it failed. But when I tried Shelby MT to Point Reyes it at least identified the first two charging stops.

I do like the AI interface.

 

[emigre459]

I tried a route from Acton, MA to Oxford, NY (try it yourself to see my results). It had me stop twice; the first stop at a chargepoint charging station at Westfield state uninversary, but it showed the charger as if it was along the highway -it is not as shown in the screenshot ( charger shown on the highway, but the charger is location at WSU show at the bottom of the image).

Plugshare shows this charger is faculty only: https://www.plugshare.com/location/608221.

The second stop, at a Tesla station, was fine and will be my first (not second) stop as I have the range to get there.

So 3 problems; the mapping is wrong, it doesn't know the range of my car, and we shouldn't be routed to restricted chargers.

I'm sorry to hear that we didn't meet your expectations! I'm going to DM you for a little more info so we can track down what happened. And thank you for flagging that mis-labeled charging station - it is incorrectly captured as publicly available in our dataset (we do take pains to make sure we don't provide suggested chargers that the public can't broadly access, but clearly some bad data slipped through!).

 

[emigre459]

Sadly not yet available for Canada .

I tried a route from Sweetgrass MT to Point Reyes Station CA and it failed. But when I tried Shelby MT to Point Reyes it at least identified the first two charging stops.

I do like the AI interface.

Thank you for giving it a whirl! My apologies, but yes we're limited to the US right now, but we will definitely be expanding coverage to Canada soon!

 

[markw314]

That's strange behavior indeed! If you can give me the name of the city near where you were looking, I can check on that. Some of the address data we have isn't very well-formatted and our service for putting pins on maps may have to make a best guess.

I was going from Northern VA to NYC. It sent me to a charger in South Jersey. However, I can't replicate it now, so maybe it was a fluke. The place it wanted to route me to was

Carneys Point Truck & Auto Plaza
327 Deep Water Slapes Corner Rd
Carneys Point, NJ 08069

But when it sent to google maps, it put the pin elsewhere.

However, when I try to map it now, it routes me to a service area that is only accessible southbound, even though I am mapping a northbound trip. It wants me to stop at the Clara Barton service area, which would require me to get off several miles up the road and go back. There is a different service area on the correct side of the highway that would be fine, but I would be concerned that it would try to route me to the wrong one.

Still, looks like a nice first cut!

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