Electric cars are great. They’re fast thanks to the instant torque of the electric motor. They’re clean in part thanks to the lack of a tailpipe. They’re also quiet so no more loud gas guzzlers flying past your house at 4 in the morning. The tech inside them is also pretty neat. Have you SEEN the inside of a Tesla??

电动汽车很棒。 由于电动机的即时扭矩，它们速度很快。 由于没有排气管，因此它们很干净。 它们也很安静，因此早上4点不再有响亮的毒气猛兽飞过您的房屋。 它们内部的技术也很整洁。 你看过特斯拉的内部吗？

But the one thing that isn’t great about an electric car is the battery. Or put another way, the limited size of the battery coupled with slow recharging times as well as limited or hard to find charging stations makes owning an electric car that much more troublesome.

但是，电动汽车不好的一件事就是电池。 或者换种说法，电池的有限体积加上缓慢的充电时间以及充电站的有限或很难找到，使拥有电动汽车变得更加麻烦。

One solution to the battery problem is to have manufacturers include a more energy dense battery. But that’s a question currently being worked on in various R&D labs in industrial and academic institutions such as Joint Center for Energy Storage Research as part of the DOE. In other words, any breakthrough will take some time to go from academic research lab to prototype to an industrial product that gets placed into electric cars that people drive. Life is short.

解决电池问题的一种方法是让制造商购买能量密度更高的电池。 但这是目前在工业和学术机构的各种研发实验室(例如能源部联合研究中心的一部分)正在研究的一个问题。 换句话说，从学术研究实验室到原型制作再到将工业产品放入人们驾驶的电动汽车中，任何突破都将花费一些时间。 生命短暂。

Another solution is to just build more dang charging stations. However, charging stations are often placed in hard-to-reach locations, have overcrowding, long lines and take a very long time to charge when compared to refueling an ICE car at a gas station. Again, life is short.

另一个解决方案是仅建立更多的dang充电站。 但是，与在加油站为ICE汽车加油相比，充电站通常放置在难以到达的位置，拥挤不堪，行长，并且需要很长时间才能充电。 同样，生命是短暂的。

How can we solve the issue of electric vehicle so that drivers can find charging stations quickly, not waste time waiting for their car to charge and also get the solution in their hands today, not 5-10 years from now.

我们如何解决电动汽车的问题，以便驾驶员能够Swift找到充电站，而不是浪费时间等待汽车充电，并且也可以在今天(而不是从现在起的5-10年)内掌握解决方案。

One of the best and least-costly solutions to this problem is to leverage the power of software. Software is great because of its ability to scale well. It’s also much cheaper to build than more advanced battery chemistries in an R&D lab. The distribution is also quicker. One over-the-air update gets sent to millions of users across the globe. (Thank you Vint Cerf and everyone that helped build the internet, love y’all ❤️)

解决此问题的最佳方法和成本最低的方法之一是利用软件的功能。 软件之所以出色，是因为它具有良好的扩展能力。 与研发实验室中更先进的电池化学物质相比，制造成本也便宜得多。 分发也更快。 一种无线更新已发送给全球数百万用户。 (谢谢Vint Cerf和所有帮助建立互联网的人，都爱❤️)

So how can software help?

那么软件如何提供帮助呢？

通过贡献建立社区 (Community building through contribution)

If you’re an EV owner, one good way to help other drivers as well as yourself find charging is to share new charging stations that you discover.

如果您是电动汽车的拥有者，帮助其他驾驶员以及您自己寻找充电的一种好方法是共享您发现的新充电站。

Find a cool and adventurous place you’d like other electric drivers to know about, share that too!

找到一个您想让其他电动车司机知道的凉爽冒险的地方，也分享一下！

Find a great Italian restaurant with nearby EV parking and charging and want to let others know if there’s electric vehicle parking and charging? Just share that with a tap!

寻找一家附近有电动车停放和充电的意大利餐厅，并想让其他人知道是否有电动车停放和充电？ 只需轻按一下即可分享！

You can trust that the information is honest, fresh and never boring.

您可以相信，这些信息是诚实，新鲜和永无聊的。

智能，节能的路由 (Intelligent, energy-aware routing)

You’re invited to a family get together at your brother’s house tomorrow evening. It’s over 600 miles away and you plan to drive there, stopping only for breaks, food…oh and of course to charge your car! Before you leave your driveway, you have to run through complex calculations in your head figuring out the best highway to take so as to maximize the number of charging stations that are available to you.

明天晚上，您受邀与家人团聚在哥哥的家中。 它在600英里之外，您打算开车去那里，只为休息，吃饭而停下来……当然要为您的汽车充电！ 在离开车道之前，您必须先进行复杂的计算，以找出最佳的高速公路，以最大程度地利用可用的充电站。

Because god-forbid, you get stranded with an empty battery! Good news is that you can utilize a dedicated trip planner, that considers your current range, car type and routes you to your destination without you having to do much thinking. It’ll even tell you how much time to spend at each charging station to make sure you arrive on time at your brother’s house. Problem solved.

因为上帝禁止，您被困在一块空电池上！ 好消息是，您可以使用专门的旅行计划器，它会考虑您当前的行驶范围，汽车类型并把您带到目的地，而无需您付出太多思考。 它甚至会告诉您在每个充电站花费多少时间，以确保您准时到达兄弟的家。 问题解决了。

充电时玩得开心 (Have fun while you charge)

Charging your car takes time. Often anywhere from 15 minutes to a few hours, depending on the speed of the charger. Like we said before, life is short. My goal, at least, is to enjoy the waking time I have on this Earth and that means exploring every square inch of it.

给汽车充电需要时间。 通常根据充电器的速度，从15分钟到几个小时不等。 就像我们之前说过的，生命是短暂的。 至少，我的目标是享受我在地球上的清醒时光，这意味着探索它的每平方英寸。

A great way to solve this is to allow you to see different charging stations as well as nearby places that you can visit! For example, I visit a ChargePoint Network station and I think it’ll take me at least 40 minutes to refuel. Instead of opening up another application to check for nearby coffee shops to get a little work done, I can find these places straight from the app!

解决此问题的一种好方法是让您看到不同的充电站以及附近的景点！ 例如，我访问了ChargePoint网络站，我认为至少需要40分钟才能加油。 我可以直接从应用程序中找到这些地方，而无需打开另一个应用程序来检查附近的咖啡店以完成一些工作！

Maybe I’m not interested in doing work but maybe grabbing lunch or doing a bit of shopping at a nearby shopping mall. Whatever it is, it’s important to be able to explore the opportunities that are around you instead of waiting inside your hot (but good-looking) electric car waiting for it to finish charging.

也许我对工作不感兴趣，但也许可以去吃午餐或在附近的购物中心购物。 不管是什么，重要的是能够发掘周围的机会，而不是在热(但外观漂亮)的电动汽车中等待充电完成。

酒店或餐厅的充电能力 (Hotel or restaurant charging capability)

Know whether or not a hotel or restaurant has charging before you get there. No this isn’t another Christopher Nolan film and yes I’m excited to see Tenet. But really, this is an annoying problem. I’m on vacation and I want to see if this great Vietnamese place has charging. Or if the Hilton has any charging available for guests. Why is there no way to find this out?

到达酒店之前，请先了解酒店或餐厅是否需要充电。 不，这不是克里斯托弗·诺兰的另一部电影，是的，我很高兴见到特内特。 但是实际上，这是一个烦人的问题。 我正在休假，我想看看越南这个很棒的地方是否有收费。 或者，如果希尔顿为客人提供任何收费。 为什么没有办法找出答案？

Being able to see if a hotel and restaurant has available charging as well as the number of charging ports is great! This means, I won’t have to park my car a mile or so at a random charging station and then walk to the Vietnamese place. I can just check beforehand to save me any headache.

能够查看酒店和餐厅是否有可用的收费以及收费端口的数量非常棒！ 这意味着，我不必将汽车停在随机的充电站一英里左右，然后再走到越南的地方。 我可以事先检查一下，以免头痛。

您在仔细阅读吗？ (Are you reading closely?)

Enough of my ranting, something like this already exists. It has all the features I listed above and then some more. If you’d like to download it, go here!

我的抱怨已经足够，像这样的东西已经存在。 它具有上面列出的所有功能，然后还有更多功能。 如果要下载，请转到这里 ！

If you use the app and you like it, feel free to let other drivers know. Hopefully you won’t have to think about finding charging ever again. Anyways, thx!

如果您使用该应用程序并且喜欢它，请随时让其他驾驶员知道。 希望您不必再考虑寻找充电了。 无论如何，谢谢！

P.S. If you want to chat, hit me up on Twitter!

附注：如果您想聊天，请在Twitter上打我！