Ask HN: Why aren’t there more EV route planning apps?

2 points by United857 ↗ HN
In 2022 there’s still no decent mobile EV route planning functionality (phone based, not in-car) — not from Apple, Google, Tesla, etc. or any of the other big players.

Best I’ve seen so far is a app called PlugShare.

My use case: I’d like to plan a Thanksgiving road trip. I’d like to play with various permutations of charging stops to evaluate the various factors: time/“fun” (stuff to eat/do at each stop), etc, especially with the proliferation of new supercharger sites in the last few years.

I’d like to do this in the warmth of my home a few days in advance, not “on the fly” in the car.

Surely my scenario is not that unusual?

Can someone ELI5 why this has been totally neglected?

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The Tesla navigation system has supercharger routing built in.

Won’t be surprise if Google maps has this within 5 years too.