What about those who also find it hard to plan a journey and have other disabilities, they may have a brain injury or mental health issues etc and not everyone’s condition is the same and combine that with not having a driveway and not being able to walk any distance.
It may be easy to solve the planning a journey part, although there is a cost:
1. ABRP – A Better Route Planner – It’s an app that now also works with Apple Carplay, maybe Android Auto too, although it’s only just arriving on these platforms. You tell it your start point & your destination, it then uses temperature, wind direction, live traffic data, elevations, to work out how much electricity a journey will require and suggest various places to charge on the route. You can plot routes across a continent with this using tens of chargers.
2. Power Cruise Control – Another route planner app, but one that you connect through the car’s OBD-II port so it knows things like battery temperature as well as the outside temperature, wind direction, etc etc. It uses a graphic screen to encourage you to drive economically to complete your journey, or tells you where you can charge.
ABRP is around £49.95 per year, which is expensive, and Power Cruise Control is around £20 per year. You’d only use these if you had trouble planning manually, or if you did a lot of driving in an EV. Some of us use such apps to “look into” the battery & ancillary gadgetry to monitor their performance in real time, but we’re really sad.
But, the point is, there is help out there.