Chargeway

Chargeway Inc

About this app

Download Chargeway®, the first electric car charging app that is personalized to your driving needs. Car & Driver Magazine proclaims, “Chargeway is absolutely game changing as it cuts through the clutter.”



Download Chargeway®, the first electric car charging app that is personalized to your driving needs. Car & Driver Magazine proclaims, “Chargeway is absolutely game changing as it cuts through the clutter.”
Chargeway® makes driving an electric car and using “electric fuel” easy for everyone. Simply choose your vehicle and Chargeway® will answer the questions that all drivers want to know when they need to re-fuel:


- Where do I fill up?
- How long does it take?
- Where can I travel to?


Chargeway® guides drivers to charging stations throughout the United States from networks including Greenlots, EVgo, SemaConnect, EVConnect, Chargepoint, Flo, Blink, OpConnect, Electrify America, AeroVironment, Volta, GE Wattstation and Tesla. Designed with the individual driver in mind, Chargeway® simplifies the electric car charging experience ensuring that you see only the stations that work for your car. Features include:
Station Locator:
- Plug specific color-coding so you know which stations match your car (Green, Blue or Red)
- Power levels 1 through 7 show your vehicle and stations max charging speed
- Automatic station location map filtering for the vehicles you choose
- Easy to adjust filters for station power levels and networks you want to use
- Add reviews and photos to stations that you visit
- See shops and restaurants near a station that you can enjoy while you charge
- One-click directions to help you get to any station location
Timer:
- Charging time estimator to help you learn how charging time can vary
- Simply select the power level and your remaining range to estimate how much time your charge will take
- If you have more than one electric car, simply swipe left or right change vehicles


Trip Planner:
- Chargeway® detects the fastest route and charging station locations for your trip
- Set the outside temperature and your desired speed for more accurate planning
- Add in multiple stops between your starting point and destination for custom routes
- Charging times for every stop are estimated to help you plan your time better
- Select "All Stations" on planned trips to view every charging option along your route
- If a certain route doesn’t have enough stations Chargeway® will let you know so you can choose another route

Vehicle Info:
- Click the vehicle image or name on the Stations screen to see more info
- Adjust your vehicles total range to more accurately plan trips and estimate charging times
- Technical specifications for each car listed under "More Info"
- Add more vehicles to your account by swiping all the way to the left

There are numerous electric cars available today that are perfect for every day driving as well as traveling. Download Chargeway® to discover how driving on “electric fuel” will work for you!

Ratings and reviews

Not quite there yet, but a good start. I like the overall design. The range estimates by speed/temp were pretty accurate for my car (ID.4). Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work with Android Auto and navigation does not flow through to Google Maps, making it hard to use on an actual road trip. On a few test routes, the app also had me charging to 100% at a number of stations. On my car, fast charging speed drops significantly over 80%, and the manufacturer advises against 100% fast charges. It would be nice if these factors were considered by the app or perhaps the user could set their own charging limits.

I like what I see of the app. One improvement that would be nice is if you could set your choice for a route instead of the app picking the route. It would be better when you know where the chargers are at if you could pick your route based off of that information. Also let us add or delete charging stations to a route like Plug Share does.

You can actually skip signing up for an account, but incredibly, while it goes to the main map (so it clearly works without an account) it won't even show charging stations. Wow that's terrible. Uninstalled. Edit: yeah, plugshare offers that too, without an account. You just use filters; it's not hard. You still fail to understand, the account clearly isn't necessary, which means the only point of this app is harvesting your data, not actually being useful.

What's new

Made some small improvements to copy and updated the treatment of charge time estimates when fully charged.