Park, charge
and ride into the city.
Find a charger near public transport, leave your car and continue into the city. Compare the whole commute with driving or transit, including the battery you need to get home.
Three ways to make the same journey
- Park, Charge & Ride
- Drive to a charger, walk to a nearby stop and take rail or another transit service to your destination.
- Drive all the way
- Compare the direct driving route, journey time and estimated battery on return.
- Public transport
- Compare a journey from your starting point using walking, waiting and the available transit connections.
Questions it answers
- Could parking near a transit stop make this commute faster than driving into the city?
- Which compatible charging stations have a useful onward transit connection?
- How much battery would remain after the drive home, with or without charging?
Plan a commute
- Choose your car and batterySelect a vehicle and set its starting charge. The car determines compatible plugs and the energy model used for the journey.
- Set the places and departureSearch for an address, enter coordinates or place the start and destination on the map. Choose a local date and time, or switch Live on to leave now.
- Choose charging and transitUse slow chargers, fast chargers or either. Charge only when needed for your chosen return battery level, or always charge. Keep rail only, or allow any public transport.
- Compare and shareSelect a travel option to inspect its route and transfers. Click a charger to try a route through it. Copy link saves the places, departure, car, settings and selected option.
Read the result
- Journey time and connections
- Compare the complete journey, including the drive, walking, waiting and transit transfers. Select an alternative to draw that route on the map.
- Battery through the day
- The diagram shows the drive to the station, the period parked and charging, the estimated drive home and the safety reserve.
- Station details
- Inspect connector types, power, opening hours, access conditions and prices where supplied. Availability is shown as a prediction or as unknown.
Charge when it helps your day
When needed checks whether the estimated battery on returning home would fall below your chosen level. Always includes charging at the station whatever the starting battery.
Slow Level 2 charging can suit a longer stay. Fast DC charging can add energy sooner, but a station may charge idle fees or limit how long a car can remain parked. Check its conditions before travelling.
Compare the departure you will make
Scheduled journeys use the local departure time you choose. Live mode leaves now and uses HERE traffic for the driving legs. Transit follows the loaded BusMaps timetables, so available connections depend on the date and service coverage.
The Manhattan toll-zone option filters driving routes that enter the configured congestion area. It does not estimate every toll or parking charge along the journey.
United States coverage
Charging stations come from the US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center and are matched to stops in the BusMaps North America timetable. Prepared examples cover New York and Los Angeles. Search or move the map to explore another covered area.
Address search and road routing use BusMaps services. Roads are based on OpenStreetMap; scheduled driving uses OSRM and live driving uses HERE. The map uses BusMaps styles from vtiler.com, OpenMapTiles and OpenStreetMap.
Understand the estimates
Port availability is predicted only where observations exist, using NYC DOT charging sessions. Unknown availability is labelled explicitly. The planner does not reserve parking or charging, and a nearby charger does not guarantee permission to leave a car all day.
Battery use and charging are estimates. Weather, speed, charger power and the time parked can change the outcome. Check a station's access and parking rules before travelling.
Car photographs are from Wikimedia Commons: photo credits and licenses. Model names belong to their respective owners.