Christian Ruoff

Chargeway EV routing app now includes charge-station pricing. Some drivers go to absurd lengths, driving miles out of their way, to get the cheapest possible gasoline prices. They have access to that data online for most stations, wrapped into routing apps both in their phones and the onscreen navigation in some new vehicles. EV charging prices? Not so much. At least, not until now. The @chargeway EV charging and routing app—which we’ve called the best electric-car idea you’ve never heard of—has now added real-time prices for more than half the charging stations in the US. Available info includes not just the daily price per kilowatt-hour, but also variable pricing when it’s been implemented. Tesla was a pioneer in that practice, largely to alleviate congestion at its most popular charging sites, but the practice is becoming more frequent among charging networks, both to balance load from EV drivers who have the ability to decide when to charge and to offset electric-utility demand fees at times of highest usage.