Launching today
ChargeRoute
Real-time EV charging, powered by AI — worldwide
11 followers
Real-time EV charging, powered by AI — worldwide
11 followers
ChargeRoute helps EV owners find real charging stations along their route or nearby — with live open/closed status, real driving distance, and a Gemini-powered AI assistant that answers trip-planning questions in your language. Works anywhere in the world, with deep language support for Indian users (Hindi, Tamil, Bengali & more). Community voting keeps station data honest. Free, no login required.
Hey PH! 👋
India has 6M+ EVs on the road but barely 29,000 public charging stations — and most existing tools only show static, English-only listings. I built ChargeRoute to fix that, and made it work for EV owners anywhere in the world:
🤖 AI assistant (Gemini-powered) that answers charging questions — with deep support for Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, and other Indian languages
🟢 Live open/closed status for each station
🚗 Real driving distance/time, not just straight-line
👥 Anonymous community voting so bad listings get flagged fast
🗺️ Works for any route or "near me" search, globally
Built solo, powered by Google Maps. Completely free, no signup needed.
Would love feedback — especially from EV owners in India and beyond. What's missing? What would make this actually useful for your daily drive?
the live open/closed status is honestly super useful, way better than guessing from random maps apps. also tried asking the AI assistant stuff in hindi and it just worked, which kind of surprised me
@mzeyyenayanfz0 Really glad the Hindi support just worked for you — that was one of the trickier parts to get right, so good to hear it held up. And yeah, live open/closed status was the whole reason I started this — random maps apps showing a station that's actually offline is so frustrating. Thanks for trying it out!
Love that you skip the login step, that alone makes me actually use it. One thing that would push it over the top for me: let me know if a station is inside a paid parking lot or requires a code to enter the gate, since showing up and getting turned away with low charge is the actual nightmare.
@hseyinlzml Glad the no-login thing is landing well — that was intentional, didn't want friction for someone who just needs a charger right now. And yes, the "paid parking / gate code" detail is a great callout — that's exactly the kind of thing that turns a good station into a useless one if you don't know beforehand. Adding that to the roadmap.
Tried it for a quick weekend trip and the live open/closed status actually matched what I saw at the station. The Hindi trip-planning response was surprisingly natural, not the usual robotic translation.
@metinelikt7fjw This means a lot — knowing the live status matched reality at the actual station is exactly the validation I needed. And "not the usual robotic translation" is great to hear, spent real effort making the AI responses feel natural rather than machine-translated. Thanks for testing it out on an actual trip!
The live open/closed status is genuinely useful since most maps just show chargers without telling you if they actually work right now. The Hindi support worked smoothly when I asked it about a route from Delhi to Jaipur.
@ali306729811021 Thanks Ali! Yeah, "shows a charger but doesn't tell you if it's actually working" is exactly the gap I wanted to close with live status. And good timing on testing the Hindi route planning — I'd just pushed a fix for a bug where longer Hindi responses were getting cut off mid-sentence, glad it worked cleanly for you.
One thing that would make this really useful for long road trips is offline route planning with cached charger locations. Signal drops happen often on highways, and losing the map mid-trip defeats the purpose. Pulling in a region or corridor ahead of time would be a lifesaver.
@adilyeilovhvts Really good point — signal drops on highways are a real problem I hadn't fully accounted for. Caching a region/corridor ahead of time is a great idea, especially for long road trips where you plan the route in advance anyway. Adding this to my list — thank you!