The EV Road Trip Plan
The DriveForward plan for a long drive in an electric car: real range, charging stops that double as breaks, and the true cost
The EV Range Calculator on this site answers how far a full battery goes. A road trip asks something else: how far between the charge you leave with and the lowest you will arrive with, and between one fast charge to 80% and the next. The trip cost calculator prices every kWh at one rate; a road trip mixes home and fast-charging prices. The EV Road Trip Plan uses the site's calculators the way a trip does. Part 1 takes your real highway consumption, finds your charging window, splits the drive into legs and stops (the last stop charges only what you need), times each charge at a realistic average power, fits stops into the day as breaks, and prices the trip at two rates. Part 2 works the same 800 km in summer and winter, a day trip and a 1,600 km haul. General planning arithmetic, not advice for any specific car; your car's own planner comes first. With your purchase comes a personalised sheet with your charging window and stops for trips of different lengths.
Look inside
Two full pages from the plan, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.
What is in it
- Your real consumption, by season
- Your charging window: 80% to a 10% buffer
- Legs and stops, and the No-Splash Rule
- Charging time at a realistic average power
- The whole day: stops as breaks
- The trip priced at home and fast-charging rates
- Four worked trips, summer and winter
- A trip sheet, leg log and backup-charger list
- Bonuses: a quickstart and a road-trip card
- A personalised sheet: your window and stops by trip length
- ✓ 26 printable pages
- ✓ 10 sections, worksheets and templates
- ✓ A second PDF worked out from the numbers you enter
- ✓ No account needed, just an email address
- ✓ Instant download; link valid 7 days
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The plan complements the free EV Range Calculator. It gives range on a full battery; the plan turns range into legs, charging stops and a priced, timed trip.