Choosing your route preferences
Reliable, quick, cheap or fewest stops; which networks you like. What each setting changes.
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Route preferences sit behind Change on the planner, under your car and its charge. The defaults suit most journeys, so you may never need them. When you do, this is what each one changes.
With the panel closed, the line above Change still shows what the plan optimises for, and a minimum charger power or preferred networks if you have set them, so you can see at a glance that a plan is set to Cheapest or limited to certain networks.
Optimise for
Decides which charger wins when there is more than one near the place you need to stop.
| Option | What it favours | Use it when |
|---|---|---|
| Most Reliable | Chargers most likely to be working when you arrive, judged on their measured record. Power only breaks near-ties. | Almost always. It is the default. |
| Quickest | The most powerful charger your car can use. | You are against the clock and the route is well served. |
| Cheapest | The lowest price per kWh. Chargers with no published price rank below those with one. | Time matters less than cost. Expect slower chargers. |
| Fewest stops | Charging to 100% at every stop instead of about 80%, at chargers chosen for reliability as Most Reliable does. | You would rather stop less often, even though each stop takes much longer: the last 20% is slow. |
Whichever you choose, trevl prefers chargers that someone has checked recently over community data nobody has confirmed. See how charging stops are chosen.
Except on Fewest stops, trevl charges to about 80% at stops along the way, where charging is still fast, and only as much as you need at the last one. It may go above 80% when that is the only way to reach the next charger or your destination. A stop is capped at 90 minutes, or two hours on Fewest stops.
Minimum charger power
A slider from 22 kW up to your car’s maximum charging speed. trevl never plans a stop below 22 kW; raise it to rule out slower chargers, for example to keep stops to rapid chargers only. Set it too high on a rural route and there may be nothing left to choose.
Preferred networks
Tap the networks you like: perhaps one you have a subscription with, or one you find reliable. When two chargers are otherwise similar, trevl picks the one on your network. A preference does not override reliability: a much more reliable charger on another network still wins under Most Reliable.
Distance unit, map orientation and voice guidance
These change how navigation looks and sounds once you start a journey:
| Setting | Options |
|---|---|
| Distance unit | Miles or kilometres for navigation distances. |
| Map orientation | Heading Up gives you a driver's view on a journey: the map turns so your direction of travel points up and tilts so the road ahead fills the screen, with your car near the bottom. North Up keeps north at the top and the map flat. |
| Voice guidance | Announces turns aloud. You can also mute it during a journey. |
Save as defaults
Changes apply to the plan you are making. Press Save as defaults to keep them for next time.
Save the ones you want on the road
When trevl re-plans during a journey, because you updated your charge or left the route, it uses your saved defaults. If you changed a setting for this trip only, save it before you set off if you want re-plans to keep it.
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