Plan your first journey
Pick your car, tell us how much charge you have, and read the plan you get back.
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A plan takes about a minute to set up and answers three questions: where you will stop, how long for, and what charge you arrive with. Everything else in WayEV exists to make those three answers trustworthy.
Setting it up
Add your car
Pick your make and model from the catalogue. This matters more than it looks: the battery size, weight and shape of your specific car are what the range prediction is built from, so a Model 3 Long Range and a Model 3 Standard get genuinely different plans.
If your exact variant is not listed, choose the closest battery size. That is the number with the largest effect on the result.
Tell us your starting charge
Read it off your car and enter it honestly. Rounding 63% up to “about 70” sounds harmless and is the single most common reason a plan drifts — seven percent of a 60 kWh battery is roughly 25 miles, which is the difference between comfortably reaching a charger and not.
Enter where you are going
Start and destination, and any stops along the way. Postcodes, place names and landmarks all work.
Choose what matters on this trip
Most reliable is the default, and is the right answer most of the time — see how charging stops are chosen for why. Switch to fastest when you are against the clock, or cheapest when you are not.
Reading the plan
The result is a route with charging stops on it, and a coloured band running underneath showing your predicted state of charge for every mile of the journey.
That band is the part worth looking at. It dips as you climb and drains fastest at motorway speed, and it should never approach the bottom — if it does, the plan is telling you the journey is tighter than it looks and you should add a stop or set off with more charge.
Each stop shows the charger, how long you will be there, and what you will leave with. The arrival charge at the end is deliberately conservative: it assumes you do not drive more gently than usual just because a computer asked you to.
Why the stops are short
Most plans put you at a charger for fifteen or twenty minutes rather than an hour. That is not the app being optimistic — charging slows down dramatically above about 80%, so two short stops are usually faster overall than one long one.
What you get on the free tier
Fifty routes a month, fifteen re-plans, three vehicles and up to three charging stops per journey. That covers ordinary use comfortably. The stop limit is the one you would notice first, and only on long journeys — a Land’s End to John o’ Groats run needs more than three.
Next: how your range is worked out — and why the number moves with the weather.
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