EV support
electroboy
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Hi, when are you gona support EV cars in your GO app, or are you planning to release a separate app for that. I would be happy to support that app.
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Hi @electroboy
Interestingly Electric Vehicle Points are available when using the Apo if you input in Search “Electric Vehicles”. You can do this Search based on Whole Map, Along Route or in a Town or City. It would be nice to have the facility to have them display as you can Petrol Stations.
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@DougLap Problem is that it is a search to only 1 charger which takes time to figure out when one is needed. Like you suggested, the best way for now it to add the chargers the same way gas stations are shown, in order for the EV driver to see how long it will take to find the next one. Especially DC chargers on the route (or nearby - say 1 km max like the ones at supermarkets, fast food restaurants, the famous Swedish warehouses
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Currently, EV drivers are simply neglected by TomTom while the company lives in a very high-dense EV driver community - it baffles me what the reason is for this.0 -
Hi @JorgenW
Tomtom have not ignored Electric Vehicle drivers as they have added EV Charger points to the PND units in a way which meets your requirements. At this stage they have so far added the EV Charger points to the Mobile App but have not yet made the change to the way they can be displayed in the Route Bar.
I am sure it will be on the list of things to do in due course. In the mean time at least you can search for them and get a list near you, on route or in a town or city.
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We do have EV support on our road map for the current apps but I can't give you a time frame.1
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I can see that Tom Tom offers ev extended routing https://developer.tomtom.com/maps-sdk-android/long-ev-distance-routing and https://www.tomtom.com/products/ev-charging-availability-routing-services/
Is this feature available on the app or we need to build our own app for now?
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Hello,
I love the TOM TOM Go app on my iPhone in combination with carplay. It is my companion in the car for many years now. But I will be switching to a Full EV car later this year and i was wondering when the EV charging stations will be available in TOM TOM Go? And will it be possible to plan a route based on the driving range of the EV Car ?0 -
If you go to Search and tap the three dots, then All Categories you can choose Electric vehicle charging stations.
On the long run there will be a setting for the vehicle time and based on that fuel stations will be replaced by EV charging stations.
I wouldn't know if there are plans to plan routes based on EV range.1 -
Hello,
Follow> Parameter> map and display> downloaded maps> see on the map> points of interest checked electric vehicle charging station.0 -
I know the moderator has already stated that the EV charging points are available for Android users but when is it coming to Apple devices paying for TomTom? Telling us that it is coming is not an answer! Why would TomTom not work on both apps at the same time to make it available to ALL USERS? #winteriscoming0
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Hi @jgeorge704
Electric charging stations can be found in the IOS App. It finds 60 sites within 8 miles of where I am and I can add any of them to a route. I can also search for them near a destination or along a route.
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Hi Doug
Where did you find it?
I haven’t found it yet
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Hi @Linger
Try
Search
Near me (or along route etc)
Tap the icon with 3 white dots
Then All Categories
Scroll down to Electric Vehicle Charging Station
You’ll see a list of charging stations depending and also an option of a map view
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Hi @Linger
As @Palferman has indicated. You can change the Whole Map setting in Search to Near Destination so being aware of electric Points near where you are going.
At the moment you cannot set the App to show Electric points in the Route Bar but hopefully that will come with time.
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In the app TomTom Go in the main menu Parking place and Gasstations are displayed. I am driving electric so I would like tot display charging stations instead go patrol/gas stations. How can I change that? Not in settings? TomTom version is 2.80
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I love the iOS app but it’s missing a crucial feature. There is no way to select EV charge point as a replacement for the fuel stations. Can this please be added or can I enable this somewhere?0
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https://discussions.tomtom.com/en/discussion/1139961/ev-charging-locations-on-ios-devices#latest
@Soulplayer , @Palferman has suggested a workaround here,
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Try
Search
Near me (or along route etc)
Tap the icon with 3 white dots
Then All Categories
Scroll down to Electric Vehicle Charging Station
You’ll see a list of charging stations depending and also an option of a map view "
Shawn
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Is it possible to set the vehicle type in settings as either ICE or EV, which then changes the petrol stations shortcut to EV chargers? This should be an easy change, even if you can't show the availability from your API?0
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@lampard its really important to understand that answer you linked to has never answered any of the concerns raised by your customers.
I’ve provided a useful temporary solution, which won’t be addressed by a convoluted search for an EV PoI which isn’t easily available in CarPlay. How do we formally start a discussion about how best to serve EV customers?0 -
I was driving around yesterday and have some ideas on how the EV option could work in a way that would kill the competition off. When the user selects EV, they can select the type of chargepoint they use, which will show on the LHS info bar which usually shows the fuel pumps en route. All you need is the following status to show for chargepoints en route:
- Green - charger is available
- Amber - charger is operational but occupied
- Red - charger is inoperable
Being blunt, TomTom is now at the point where I can justify paying for it on top of Waze etc, but your real competition is now ABRP and Zap-Map.3 -
Thanks, for the feedback @Bydandie about the color codes, I'll send it to my team. As Jurgen mentioned in the other thread, EV POI's should be available later this year since the work is ongoing. We have the similar setup on Android App which looks something like this:
Best, lampard
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Why is it still not available on iOS? How difficult can it be to make this happen on the iOS version?0
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Having read this thread and although a workaround has been suggested, to have to do that for every journey is tedious, plus there is the redundant icon on the main page of a fuel pump, surely this could be an option for fuel or EV charger? Even if it was just for any kind of charger?
As EVs are hardly anything new and becoming more popular by the day, it seems a little shortsighted of TomTom not to address this in a more comprehensive way than including EV chargers halfway down a list with dentists and Embassies, those regularly used destinations...!!!
Like others, I have happily subscribed to TomTom for years, but ZapMap is becoming more appealing by the day...
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