If you have a an electric car and an iPhone, the vehicle will most likely be compatible with Apple CarPlay. This is the Apple operating system that appears on the car screen and carries certain iPhone applications with it.
Although there are interesting applications for listening to music or podcasts, we also find tools intended for driving an electric vehicle. Everyone focused on finding charging stations and even parking. Below we review those that are, in our opinion, the most comprehensive.
The official application of the car manufacturer
Maybe you already have it installed on your iPhone, but if not, You should search for the manufacturer’s official app in the App Store. Depending on each one, you can find a more polished interface with more or fewer functions, but in general most offer good incentives with their application if it is compatible with CarPlay.
What you will usually find there is useful and up-to-date information about your vehicle
Google Maps
It is by no means an unknown application and it has more and more functions, including fully adapt to the circumstances of an electric vehicle. In the app navigation settings, you need to go to the engine section and select “Electric”. Once this is done, the app will fully know the car type.
On this basis you can leave get the best routes for a car of this type, by favoring routes on which there is less consumption and therefore you gain more autonomy. Additionally, the app is frequently updated to show information about charging stations, although we have already warned that it is not the best in this area.
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I don’t think his name leaves much room for doubt. It’s a app to find charging points in much of the world, including USA. It also offers detailed information such as charging power and even gives the option to easily pay for charging from the app itself (although it has to be on the mobile).
On another side, It can also act as a navigator oriented towards the least consuming routes.. Something like what Google Maps offers and which, at least in our tests, fully coincides in the selection of routes. However, the navigation itself falls short because it doesn’t take into account things like real-time traffic that others, like Google, report.
Chargemap – Charging stations
Chargemap is your travel companion to easily find charging stations and plan your trips.
Waze
Another of the well-known GPS applications that increasingly specialized in electricity. Like the previous two, it contains information on charging points and choosing efficient routes. However, we highlight it because it is perhaps the most complete with a much more detailed and useful navigation interface to use regularly as a GPS navigator.
Waze navigation and traffic
Waze is a community-based GPS navigation app that helps millions of users reach their destinations with real-time traffic alerts and updated maps.
EasyPark
What is ultimately common to all drivers, whether electric or not, is that they have to look for a parking space, occasionally or regularly. This is an application that aims precisely to find and pay for the use of parking spaces without doing anythingsince in its configuration it allows you to add a payment card and with this we forget about having to go to the machines to make the payment.
Likewise, regarding electricity, this stands out because it is possible prioritize the search for car parks equipped with charging stations, so that the car can be recharged while we are away. Of course, it does not include payment options for these charging stations, which must be done with the application of whoever supplies energy to these parking lots.
EasyPark – Parking app
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