When Germany's largest car marketplace wants to move people toward electric, the routing has to be right.
mobile.de is where Germany buys cars, with over 1.4 million listings and millions of active buyers every month, it's the country's most trusted automotive marketplace, and one of the largest in Europe.
So when they decided to tackle one of the biggest blockers in EV adoption, the tool they embedded into that experience needed to be reliable, accurate, and built for scale.
The most common reason buyers pause on an EV isn't price or availability, it's uncertainty. Will this car work for my daily commute? What happens on a longer trip? Where do I charge? These questions don't have great answers in a spec sheet, but they do have great answers in a route plan.
Through Chargetrip's Routing API, mobile.de now lets prospective buyers plan real trips with the exact vehicle they're considering, before any decision is made. The routing accounts for that vehicle's actual battery size and consumption profile, the terrain and weather conditions of the route, charger availability and compatibility along the way, and realistic charging stops based on how people actually drive. The result isn't an estimate, it's a simulation that reflects what ownership would genuinely feel like.
What makes this integration interesting is where it lives. Our routing isn't embedded in an app that drivers open after they've already bought, it's embedded in the moment of consideration, inside one of the highest-traffic automotive platforms in Europe. A buyer who plans a route and sees it work cleanly is a buyer who moves forward with confidence.
For mobile.de, this means a more informed customer base and a measurably better path to EV conversion. For the broader market, it's a demonstration of what happens when the tools that support EV adoption are placed exactly where they're needed most.
If your platform reaches car buyers or EV shoppers, Chargetrip's Routing API can help you deliver the same kind of experience at scale.
