News, Commercial
Deloitte uses Chargetrip for 2024 Point of View on fleet electrification
How Deloitte used Chargetrip for its 2024 Point of View on fleet electrification
Chargetrip • 2 min read
Tech, Informative
What is CT Real Range?
How Chargetrip calculates CT Real Range to give more realistic range estimates than WLTP.
Chargetrip • 4 min read
Commercial, News
Chargetrip Welcomes Solidstudio as Integration Partner
Solidstudio is now a Chargetrip Integration Partner, integrating the Chargetrip API into its white-label eMSP application. Learn more about the partnership.
Chargetrip • 3 min read
Commercial, News
Chargetrip powers Plugsurfing’s Route Planner feature
Chargetrip API used to power the new Route Planner feature on the Plugsurfing app. Learn more about the partnership here.
Chargetrip • 2 min read
News
Chargetrip welcomes WEX Venture Capital as its newest investor
WEX Venture Capital, the venture arm of WEX Inc., has invested in Chargetrip as part of a second close of Chargetrip’s oversubscribed Series A funding round.
Noah Tompkins • 2 min read
Informative, Industry
Fleet Electrification Planning: Where to Start
What you need to know for successful electric vehicle fleet management. Advice and tools for planning fleet charging, procurement, and TCO optimization.
Noah Tompkins • 15 min read
News, Commercial
Chargetrip and Repsol bring EV route planning to the Waylet App
How Repsol and Chargetrip brought EV route planning to the Waylet app. Learn how it works and how it helps current and prospective EV drivers all over Spain.
Noah Tompkins • 2 min read
News
We closed our Series A!
We are proud to announce our €10M funding round! This new funding help us grow our team and scale to North America and commercial fleets.
Noah Tompkins • 3 min read
Inside Chargetrip
Our biggest Chargetrip retreat yet!
Last week, the Chargetrip team gathered in Austria for our biggest company retreat yet! Coming from across Europe (the Netherlands, Romania, Spain, France and Austria), our annual retreat was an opportunity for our employees to meet team members that work from other Chargetrip offices and set goals for the year ahead.
Rosalind Anketell • 4 min read
Informative
What is charging equity and why is it important?
The energy transition goes beyond CO2 reduction and cost savings for individual drivers - it also has the potential to address global social and environmental justice barriers. However, as the transition to electric vehicles continues to accelerate, there is a growing concern when planning future EV charging infrastructure; equity.
Rosalind Anketell • 3 min read
News
Partnering with Bonnet to make driving and charging a breeze
Chargetrip is partnering with Bonnet! By powering their Premium Route Planner we’re helping Bonnet users across the UK get from A - B smoothly. Bonnet Premium offers route planning, direct vehicle integration, smart scheduling and more. Users can now travel to charging stations anxiety free, all within the Bonnet app!
Rosalind Anketell • 2 min read
News, Informative
Transylvania classic 2022: how to smile on the podium
This year, Chargetrip’s Florentina Pectu once again participated in the Transylvania Classic Regularity Rally. The Transylvania Classic started in 2015, but since 2017 it includes a category for electric vehicles. In the first year, there were only 3 teams at start. Last year, there were 18. But this year there were 27 EVs on the list!
Florentina Petcu • 9 min read
Tech, Informative, Commercial
Add EV routing in just 3 weeks
Adding EV routing to your application seems like a big undertaking. However, there are only three elements needed to get this feature off the ground. A vehicle selector, a page to plan your trip and a journey overview. It is as simple as that. In this article, I will walk you through the steps required in order to make your app ready for routing electric mobility.
Lorena Smienk • 2 min read
Informative, Industry
Future-proof electric fleets
Whilst Electric Vehicles (EVs) made up only 10% of global new car sales in 2021, by 2050 they’re predicted to reach a staggering 80%. As technology progresses (and gets cheaper) and EV infrastructure grows, future-focused fleets have their eyes on the prize; electrification.
Rosalind Anketell • 6 min read
News
Partnering with Enode
Chargetrip is thrilled to be partnering with Enode! Soon the days of manually inputting your state-of-charge will be over! One of the most requested features we’ve received to date is to enable connected cars, allowing drivers to link EV data directly to the Chargetrip routing engine. With Enode we’re working to make it happen.
Rosalind Anketell • 2 min read
Informative
Maps and routing: a glossary
While much of EV terminology seems as strange and daunting as hieroglyphic markings on ancient cave walls, you’ll be relieved to know that navigation still relies on good old maps. Here’s a glossary to help you dive in, or fill the gaps!
Jeff Vasishta • 9 min read
News
Why we finish our week playing together
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Florentina Petcu • 3 min read
News
Chargetrip’s summer holidays: Pieter goes to Croatia
Chargetrip Co-founder Pieter Waller and his family were pleasantly surprised with the relative ease of driving 1700km across 5 countries in an electric vehicle. This summer Pieter took a road-trip from the Netherlands to Croatia. His experience makes for a handy guide for others contemplating taking their EVs for a long trip!
Valentina Neri Serneri • 4 min read
Tech
EV routing features for CPOs and eMSPs
Broken charge stations, unknown locations, and incompatible plug types are just some of the potholes drivers face when navigating the EV ecosystem.
Valentina Neri Serneri • 4 min read
News, Informative
Transylvania classic 2021: how to rally
Our Country Manager Florentina participates in an EV rally across the Romanian mountains.
Florentina Petcu • 11 min read
Informative
The mercator projection
Here’s a handy piece of trivia to parse out at dinner parties — the mapping system used in most modern electric vehicles zipping along Europe’s pristine highways was first developed in the 16th Century. It’s called Mercator Projection. The what?
Jeff Vasishta • 3 min read
Informative
Top 3 services leasing companies should adopt to help their customers electrify their fleet
Driving and charging an EV can be complex. When it comes to large corporate electric fleets, the complexity only increases.
Valentina Neri Serneri • 4 min read
Informative
The environmental impact of electric cars
Like any disruptive product, electric vehicles (EVs) have been lashed by both hype and critique. Some of this is fair scepticism poured over the industry’s many cracks. But often, it’s bad actors, usually with a political bent, spraying lies about a young but well-meaning industry.
Neelesh Vasistha • 5 min read
Informative
Fleet electrification: an introduction
To hit 2030 climate targets, we in Europe need to cut 64% of transport emissions, according to EY analysis. That’s a really, really big amount.
Neelesh Vasistha • 5 min read
Developer Tutorials
A simple guide to our car queries
This article focuses on the car example that shows you how to query car data from our database.
Lorena Smienk • 2 min read
Informative
How electric car motors work
We’ve spoken at length about car batteries: how they work, their materials and recyclability. But while batteries steal much of the discussion around EVs, they just store energy, not turn wheels. This article prises the lid on...
Neelesh Vasistha • 3 min read
Informative
Keeping ahead of the curve
Range anxiety remains one of the heaviest logs on the road to EV adoption. Its existence proves a living contrast between EVs and traditional cars e-mobility may have come a long way, but many drivers still aren’t confident of somewhere to recharge. Despite this, most manufacturers recommended charging only to 80% capacity. What gives? Wouldn’t filling a car to 100% help range anxiety? Turns out it’s not as simple as that. In this article, we learn about the charging curve, and why drivers should be mindful of it.
Neelesh Vasistha • 3 min read
Informative
History of in-car navigation
The navigation technology that lives in our smartphones and dashboards might seem young, but is the crystal of centuries of exploration and cartography, technical tinkering and commercial competition. Today, they’re background characters in our busy lives — obedient, omniscient friends who always know the best route. And we’re not even done. Navigation continues to be developed by market winds, such as customization. This article plots the rise of in-car navigation; from novelty invention to ubiquity.
Neelesh Vasistha • 4 min read
Tech
Supercharging our powerful EV routing API
We know building applications is hard: managing infrastructures, building UIs, setting up monitoring and resolving bugs. So we think integrating a third-party API should be as easy as possible. This philosophy guided the creation of our new dashboard and developer portal.
Wouter van de Kamp • 2 min read
Informative
Debunking EV myths
Electric vehicles have come a long way since their resurgence in the 1990’s. But still today, a cloud of ignorance hangs stubbornly over the entire industry. In this article, we parry some of the negative myths that persist about EVs.
Neelesh Vasistha • 5 min read
Informative
Electric vehicles: a glossary
New to EVs? Have a beer — glad you could make it. Those jumping over to the electric side may be daunted by a strange language: scrolls of new acronyms and figures, looking as pointy and foreign as other people’s passwords. But relax, this code isn’t as hard as it seems: in fact, you likely know much of it already. Here’s a glossary to help you dive in, or fill the gaps.
Neelesh Vasistha • 5 min read
Informative
EV charge station data: availability, price and more
Chargetrip comes integrated with the Eco-Movement charge station database covering all of Europe: 100,000 charge stations and counting. But what information is available? And what data can you display in your EV routing application? This article looks at common charge station information to show EV drivers on a map.
Valentina Neri Serneri • 3 min read
Informative
3 reasons why CPOs and eMSPs should integrate EV routing
The e-mobility ecosystem is fragmented. Currently, CPOs and eMSPs offer many different EV apps, each drawing on limited information. Because of this, driving and charging an electric vehicle is harder than it needs to be. By integrating EV-specific routing and navigation into your software stack, you create a portfolio of user benefits that reflect handsomely on your business. Let’s examine three reasons why this makes sense for CPOs and eMSPs.
Valentina Neri Serneri • 2 min read
Informative
How recyclable are electric car batteries?
Before EVs help save the world, they have one hulking flaw to address: their batteries. The life and death of these batteries are fraught with issues of sustainability: both in the materials they’re made from, and how they’re disposed of. Incinerating them, or sending them to landfill, is dirty. It pollutes lakes and streams, leaches into groundwater, and generally exposes the environment to nasty acids and bases. This sets a tall challenge for the industry: if the golden USP that EVs protect the environment is to last, battery recyclability becomes a key issue.
Neelesh Vasistha • 5 min read
Informative
Charging an electric car — the costs
As electric and traditional cars battle for market share, price remains a central factor in the buying decision.
Neelesh Vasistha • 5 min read
Informative
Electric car batteries — the material facts
Pens out. Let’s talk about a little miracle of chemistry. Inside a battery, in a part known as the anode, you’ll find a swarm of restless electrons. They want nothing more than to visit somewhere else: the cathode. These two areas, however, are separated by a cushion of electrolyte. But once you place the battery into a closed circuit, the electrons see a path to their beloved anode, and promptly rush toward it. This chemical love story of cathodes and anodes is significant — it’s the basis of battery power. Along their journey to the anode, these electrons discharge energy to anything in the circuit; your phone, your remote control, or on a massive scale; your electric car.
Neelesh Vasistha • 5 min read
Informative
Electric cars: a revisit from history
Hey. You there — how do
Neelesh Vasistha • 5 min read
Informative
Battery will get you everywhere
The internal combustion engine, conceived in the 17th century and perfected in the 18th, rightfully sits on the leaderboard of modern inventions. For centuries, it provided the moving force for locomotives, planes, vehicles and heavy machinery — literally turning the wheels of the industrial revolution. Its descendant, the electric motor, today lies at the heart of another revolution: the electric vehicle (EV). Instead of fossil fuels, EVs are powered by clean electricity from a battery. But what exactly are these batteries, and how are they different?
Neelesh Vasistha • 5 min read
Informative, Tech
Chargetrip technology for dummies
Software isn’t always an easy grasp for people with a commercial background. With tangled terms like GraphQL, nodes and edges, and protocols, it can all begin to sound a little abstract. In this article, we explain Chargetrip technology for a non-technical audience, helping you to hack through a developer’s vocabulary.
Valentina Neri Serneri • 4 min read
Informative
The role of utilities in electric mobility
The growth of renewable and decentralized energy sources is disrupting the business model of electric utility companies. At the same time, progressive utilities are adjusting to changes in the energy market by entering new ones, like electric mobility. BloombergNEF estimates there will be about 500 million electric vehicles (EVs) on the road by 2040. The growth of this market will have a massive impact on global energy consumption, creating new opportunities for electric utility providers who will need to innovate to remain competitive
Valentina Neri Serneri • 3 min read
Informative
Overcoming charge anxiety
In more mature EV markets, the familiar term range anxiety also has a cousin: charge anxiety. In this article, we will explore what charge anxiety is, its relation to range anxiety, and what EV drivers can use to overcome it. Let’s start!
Valentina Neri Serneri • 4 min read
Tech, Informative
Chargetrip tile service with React Native and Mapbox
The Chargetrip Tile Service implements an in-house developed Vector Tile Server that offers a pre-rendered, fully clustered station map solution with filtering capabilities.
Tim Kuilman • 2 min read
Informative
Range anxiety: what it is and how to defeat it
Range anxiety is considered as one of the thorniest barriers to the adoption of electric vehicles. In this article, we will discuss what range anxiety is. We will explore why you should not have this fear and how to overcome it.
Valentina Neri Serneri • 5 min read
Informative, Tech
A simple guide to EV navigation and routing
In order to start building the next-generation of electric mobility tools, it is important to understand what aspects of driving an EV are different from driving a car with an ICE.
Tim Kuilman • 7 min read
News
Chargetrip raises late-seed round and launches EV-specific navigation API to accelerate EV adoption worldwide
Chargetrip raises a late-seed round from prominent European investors. TotalEnergies Ventures, AxelSpringer Porsche and Vindeggen.
Gideon van Dijk • 3 min read
Informative
How oil and gas companies are entering the electric mobility market
According to Bloomberg’s NEF Electric Vehicle Outlook 2020, EVs across all segments are displacing 1 million barrels of petrol demand per day. As electric mobility advances, oil and gas companies have to reposition themselves to secure their long term revenues.
Valentina Neri Serneri • 3 min read
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