ChargePoint Keeps Making EV Charging Easier
Posted: Nov, 17, 2020 11:41AM ET • 2 min read
Originally published on ChargePoint.
At ChargePoint, we talk a lot about offering a great driver experience. From letting you start a charge with your phone or your voice to relentless testing that ensures our stations always work, we do everything we can to make EV charging as easy and convenient as possible. Part of this involves coming up with new ways to integrate charging into everyday experiences. We want charging to be something you don’t have to think about—it just works with your life.
ChargePoint Works with Apple CarPlay
To give drivers another easy way to find a place to charge that fits with the way you drive, ChargePoint now works with Apple CarPlay. Many drivers already enjoy using CarPlay for media, navigation and other purposes. Now, EV charging is part of the CarPlay experience as well. Just connect your iPhone to a vehicle that works with CarPlay and open the ChargePoint app to find stations nearby and even start a charge, all from the vehicle’s built-in display.
You can do more than just find stations and start a charge. Use ChargePoint with CarPlay to:
See a map with nearby stations and availability
Tap on a station pin for more info like cost and address
Start a charge from the station info screen
Filter stations by speed, cost, availability and compatibility with your EV
Find recently used stations
Access favorite spots
Join a Waitlist on your ride to work
Not sure if you can get CarPlay with your car or your dream car? Check out all the vehicles that work with CarPlay. In addition to a vehicle that works with CarPlay, you’ll need an iPhone running iOS 14 and version 5.73 or higher of the ChargePoint app.
More Ways to Get an Easy Charge
CarPlay is exciting enough, but we’ve got some other great features for Apple users you might have missed. There’s Dark Mode, so you can ease your screen’s impact on your eyes (and save battery too). Just toggle Dark Mode on or off in your phone’s settings. Apple Watch is fully supported so you can see stations, filter for stations, get directions, start and stop charging and more. You can also add the ChargePoint widget to Today View on iPhone so you can find nearby stations or check charging status from that screen.
Ready for happier charging—and driving? Get the ChargePoint app if you don’t have it already, or update to the latest version to try CarPlay.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Colleen Jansen
Chief Marketing Officer
Colleen Jansen is a marketing strategist with 20 years of experience in both business-to-consumer and business-to-business marketing spanning early stage, privately held VC-funded companies as well as large cap, publicly traded firms. Prior to joining ChargePoint, she led marketing disciplines for a number of category-creating startups as well as established brands including Microsoft, Yahoo, Intuit and LinkedIn. An early EV adopter and currently a Tesla driver, Colleen is passionate about helping everyone realize the personal, societal and economic benefits of driving electric. As the head of the marketing organization, she oversees brand, communications, demand generation, consumer engagement and customer marketing. She holds a B.S. from California State University, Fresno.
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