How to use the evrouteplan route planner: step-by-step guide
Published 5 November 2026
Before you leave, the route planner tells you where to stop and charge, how long you will be stopped and the battery you arrive with at each point. This guide goes through every step, from choosing the car to sending the plan to your phone’s navigation. It is free and there is no need to sign up.
1. Choose your car
In «Choose the vehicle», pick the make, the model and the trim. The trim matters: two versions of the same model can have very different batteries and charging power. Once the car is chosen you will see its data sheet and its «DC fast-charging curve», the power it accepts at each battery percentage.
If you almost always travel in the same car, press the star (★) to save it as your usual car: next time it will already be selected.
2. Set the route
In «Set the route», type the origin and the destination: addresses, towns, businesses or service areas. You can also tap a point on the map or use «My location». With «+ Add destination» you can add up to five destinations, in the order you want to pass through them, and «↩ Back to the start» adds the return to the starting point.
Choose the departure day and time as well. For departures from today up to 7 days ahead, the planner uses the wind and temperature forecast at each point of the route, at the time you will pass it.
3. Adjust the route options
«Route options» holds the settings that change the plan:
- Battery at departure: how much you leave with.
- Battery on arrival: what you want left at the final destination.
- Battery on reaching a charging stop: the minimum you accept when you reach a charger. It is always respected; only if you set 15 % or less and the route cannot be done any other way does the plan suggest arriving below it at a specific charger, with a warning and never below 6 %.
- Avoid on the route: tolls, motorways and dual carriageways, or ferries.
- My charging networks: rate the networks you prefer from 1 to 5 and the planner will lean towards them.
- Motorway speed: it only applies on motorways and dual carriageways; the rest of the route goes at each road’s own speed. Above 120 km/h it is marked with ⚠, because it is not legal in Spain.
- Motorway consumption: it comes from your version’s data. If you know your car’s real consumption, type it in.
- Outside temperature: if you switch the weather forecast off, you choose it.
- Charging price: if you enter it, the plan tells you what charging costs at each stop; if not, the cost shows «n/a».
4. Simulate and compare the two plans
Press «Simulate route». In a few seconds the planner draws the route, analyses the elevation, checks the weather forecast, finds the chargers along the way and plans the stops. You get two plans:
- Fewest stops: the one that makes you stop the fewest times.
- Fastest: the one that arrives first, counting driving, charging and detours; sometimes with an extra stop, but a shorter one.
On the map, the grey numbers are the other plan’s stops: tap them to switch plans.
5. Read the plan
At the top you have the key figures of the trip. Each stop shows the kilometre, the battery you arrive and leave with, the charging time, the charger’s power, the cost if you entered a price and, when Google publishes it, how many connectors are free right now.
Two marks worth knowing: ⚠ means you reach that charger below your minimum (only when there is no other way to do the route) and ≈ means the charger does not publish its power, so the charging time is the best possible case.
Below, in folding sections, you have «Where the time goes», «Where the energy goes», «Wind and temperature along the route» and «Total time at each motorway speed». The last one compares your route at each speed so you can see whether driving faster pays off with your car.
6. The map
The map shows the route, the numbered stops and the chargers along the way. The legend explains the symbols: size shows whether the station is small, medium or large; colour, its power (under 50 kW, 50 to 149 kW, and 150 kW or more); and the halo, that there are more chargers around it.
7. Change what does not suit you
- Remove a stop: tap the stop on the map and press «Exclude this charger». You can exclude it for this route only or for good, and the plan is recalculated with another one.
- Add a charger: tap any charger on the map and press «Add to the route». The plan is recalculated stopping there. If it is far from the route, it is added as an intermediate destination.
- Try another set-up: change the speed, the departure battery or the minimums in «Route options» and simulate again.
8. Take the plan on the road
- Navigate, at each stop, opens Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze with that charger as the destination.
- Google Maps sends the whole route with every stop. If your device accepts fewer waypoints, the last ones will be missing: use «Navigate» at each stop for the rest.
- Share copies a link: whoever opens it will see the same route.
- Print, to take the plan on paper.
9. Save your car, your preferences and your routes
Without an account, everything is saved in this browser once you press «Save my preferences»: your usual car, your options and your routes. After simulating, «Save» adds the route to «Saved routes». If you sign in («Sign in», with Google or your email), what you had saved moves to your account.
10. Before you leave
The plan is an estimate made with our own tools, not official ones: real consumption also depends on how you drive, the load and the condition of the car. Reach each stop with a margin, have a backup charger in mind and, in winter, set the charger as the destination in the car’s navigation so it prepares the battery, if your model does that. There are more tips in the guide to travelling by electric car.