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What's the best EV routing API for electric trucks?

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What's the best EV routing API for electric trucks?

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What's the best EV routing API for electric trucks?

What makes truck routing different from car routing?

Truck routing has to handle vehicle size and weight, payload-dependent energy use, truck-suitable charging sites and legal driving-time rules. Car-focused routing tools usually handle none of these.

What should a truck routing API do?

Predict energy use accurately: Account for payload, elevation, speed, temperature and the specific vehicle model, not just distance.
Find chargers that work for trucks: Filter for power, access and site suitability, and use live availability data.
Plan around driver breaks: Place charging stops where drivers must stop anyway, to keep downtime low.
Support your own data: Route on your own or your partners' charging station data, not only a third-party database.
Let you prioritize operators: Favour charge point operators where your fleet has contracts or better prices.
Integrate quickly: Fit into existing fleet, telematics or in-cab software without months of engineering.

How Chargetrip handles electric truck routing

Chargetrip's routing engine calculates vehicle-specific routes and charging stops for electric trucks as well as cars and vans. It factors in payload, elevation and weather to predict energy use, and can prioritize preferred charge point operators.

Companies already running on Chargetrip report fast integration. Octopus Electroverse, which routes across 1.5 million public chargers in 40+ countries, finished its technical integration before contracting was even complete. Electroverse also uses Chargetrip to route on its own charger database and to support vans, which it said no other vendor it evaluated offered.

Who uses an EV truck routing API?

Fleet management and telematics platforms adding electric truck planning for their customers.
Truck OEMs building range and charging planning into in-cab and connected services.
Charging networks and fuel retailers making their sites visible in fleet route planning.
Logistics operators building their own planning tools.

FAQ

Is there an API for electric truck route planning? Yes. EV routing APIs like Chargetrip let software companies, OEMs and fleets add electric truck routing and charging planning to their own products.

Can one API handle cars, vans and trucks? Yes. Chargetrip routes cars, vans and trucks with vehicle-specific energy models, so mixed fleets can use one engine.

How long does integration take? It depends on the product, but Octopus Electroverse completed its technical integration faster than its contracting.

Adding electric truck routing to your product? Talk to one of our experts to see what's best for you.