EV Newbie planning first reasonable distance trip (UK)

[thealbs]

Hi

I’ve had my 4S for a few weeks now and we are planning our first trip of any distance, which will involve a public recharge or maybe two. This is our first EV so we are public recharging virgins, and wanted to see what advice is out there on the most optimal way of planning and executing the trip.

We have…

- Porsche charge card
- Octopus Electroverse charge card

Both offer discounts but at different EV charging providers.

My preferred Sat Nav is Apple Maps as it includes UK speed cameras … but doesnt apear to natively plan a trip based on EV considerations as far as I can tell.

It seems I have a few options and am unsure of the best one…

1. let Apple Maps guide me, and separately research fastest/cheapest charging points en route (probably Electroverse as these seem more prevalent than Porsche preferred ones around the route I will be taking)
2. use the My Porsche app to plan the route and send the route to the car then rely on built-in navigation (but no speed camera warnings)
3. Use the Octopus Electroverse app to plan route then send it to car, where it seems to interact with Apple Maps … but I haven't tested that one yet
4. Others?

What are others’ experiences of similar decisions?

Also, this is a day trip to a place a few hundred miles from my home. There is no charging point at the remote destination but I do have a home charge point. Would you:

1. plan each leg of the journey individually, and just make sure there is adequate charge (25%?) minimum at the remote location?
2. plan the entire round trip (home to home with a stop-off point at the destination and ask the chosen app to start with 80% and be happy to end with 20%?)

As you can tell, I’m a newbie! At the risk of missing out on some of the fun of trial and error… what is the seasoned EV owners’ advice in these circumstances?

Apologies if these combos have been discussed in other threads too. Please feel free to direct me there if so…

Thanks in advance…

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