EV route planner

How the EV route planner works

Enter where you're starting and where you're going (plus any stops along the way), and we map the driving route and pull in every charging station within about 10 km of it. You'll see the chargers in travel order with the distance between each one, so you always know how far the next charger is. Pick your EV and set your current charge, and we flag any stretch that's longer than your range — so you know before you set off whether you'll make it.

Looking for chargers near you right now instead? Use the EV charging stations near me finder. Comparing EVs on range before a trip? Browse the electric cars catalogue or the range calculator.

Why EV road trips need planning that petrol trips never did

With a petrol car, planning a long drive means glancing at the fuel gauge. Pumps are everywhere, refuelling takes four minutes, and running low is an inconvenience rather than a crisis. Electric travel inverts all three assumptions. Chargers are unevenly distributed, a meaningful stop takes 30 to 45 minutes, and arriving somewhere with five per cent left and no working charger is a genuinely stuck situation.

This is why the useful question on a highway is not "where is the nearest charger?" but "what is the longest gap between chargers on my route, and can my vehicle cross it?" A corridor with forty chargers and one 200 km gap is more dangerous than a corridor with twelve evenly spaced ones. The planner is built around exactly that question: it maps your whole route, places every charger along it in travel order, and shows the distance between each charging zone so the risky stretch becomes obvious before you leave rather than halfway through.

How to read the results

After planning, you get a summary bar with total distance, driving time, the number of chargers found, an estimate of how many charging stops your vehicle will need, and the single biggest gap on the route. That last number is the one to look at first. If the biggest gap is comfortably below your real-world range, the trip is straightforward. If it exceeds your range, the route needs rethinking — a different highway, a detour to a charger slightly off-route, or starting with a full battery from a specific point.

Below the map, chargers appear in the order you will reach them, each showing how far it sits from the start and the gap from the previous charging zone. Where several chargers cluster in one town, they are grouped into a single zone with the strongest charger leading and the rest noted, because for planning purposes a cluster is one stop, not twenty. Any gap longer than your remaining range is flagged in red, taking into account the current charge level you set — so a trip that works from 100 per cent but fails from 60 per cent is shown honestly.

Setting your vehicle and charge level properly

Picking your EV loads its real-world range rather than the claimed ARAI or IDC figure, which matters because brochure numbers are measured in controlled conditions and rarely survive contact with an Indian highway. Sustained cruising at 100 km/h, air-conditioning through summer, a loaded boot and passengers, and gradients all consume more than a test cycle does. Planning against realistic range rather than claimed range is the difference between a comfortable trip and an anxious one.

The charge slider exists because journeys rarely start from a full battery. Setting it to your actual state of charge recalculates the first leg, which is where most people get caught out — the gap from home to the first charger is often the tightest part of a trip precisely because it is the leg nobody plans. As a working rule, treat 80 per cent of your stated range as your usable planning range, leaving a buffer for detours, traffic and the possibility that the charger you were counting on is occupied.

Fast DC only, and why it changes the picture

The fast-DC filter is worth using on any intercity trip. Slow AC points are valuable in a city where you park for hours, but adding meaningful range from a 3.3 kW AC charger takes most of a day — useless mid-journey. Switching the filter on removes those points from both the map and the gap calculation, which usually makes the gaps grow and can reveal a long stretch that the slower chargers were masking. That larger, more honest set of gaps is the one to plan around for a road trip.

Practical habits for long EV drives in India

Charge to full the night before departure, and treat the first charging stop as a target rather than a fallback. Plan to arrive at each charger with 15 to 20 per cent remaining, which gives you enough margin to reach an alternative if the station is broken or occupied. Prefer stopping at chargers attached to something useful — a restaurant, a service plaza, a mall — since a 40-minute stop is far more pleasant when there is somewhere to sit, and combining the stop with a meal makes the charging time effectively free.

Carry the apps of the major networks on your route, because some chargers require an operator app to start a session even if the map shows the station is public. Keep the charging cable that came with the vehicle for opportunistic AC top-ups at hotels. And check the reported status of the chargers you are depending on before you commit to a long leg — the charging station finder shows community reports of whether a station was recently working, which is far more current than any static database.

What this planner does not do

It is honest to say where the limits are. This is a corridor planner, not a battery optimisation engine: it does not model elevation, temperature, driving style or the precise charging curve of your specific vehicle, and it does not tell you exactly how many minutes to charge at each stop. Charger coverage comes from Open Charge Map, a community-maintained database that is broad but not complete, so a genuine charger may occasionally be missing and appear as a gap that is not real. Routing comes from open road data and reflects driving distance rather than live traffic.

Used as intended — to understand where chargers sit along your route, how far apart they are, and whether any stretch exceeds your range — it answers the question that actually causes range anxiety on Indian highways, and it does so before you commit to the drive.