EV by Gen Z Charge Nomad
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// NEW FROM EV BY GEN Z NATIVE iOS APP · AU & NZ

Charge Nomad.
Charging, sorted.

An EV charging app built by Adam for drivers in Australia and New Zealand. It does three jobs: find a charger right now, plan a trip that involves charging, and answer the numbers questions EV drivers actually ask.

300+ VEHICLES 6 CALCULATORS 0 THIRD-PARTY SDKS
Charge Nomad home screen on an iPhone, showing local weather, Find Chargers and the tools shortcuts

// 01 FIND

A charger, right now

Every network on one map, filtered down to the plugs your car can actually use.

// 02 PLAN

A trip with charging in it

Stops worked out around a safety margin you set, not around arriving on fumes.

// 03 CALCULATE

The numbers you actually ask

Real range, charge time, trip cost, off-peak savings. All on-device, no signal needed.

// THE MAP

Every charger near you, honestly labelled

Chargers are plotted around your location or anywhere you search. Filter by connector type, power output or cost, so you only see stations your car can use. Fast charging is classified at 50kW DC and above, the standard industry cutoff.

Free means free. A station is only marked free when the operator explicitly says so. A blank cost field is treated as unknown, never as free.

The community layer

Star ratings and short notes from other drivers sit on top of every station, alongside address, connectors, pricing and operator.

Missing a station?

Submit it. User-added chargers get their own IDs so they never collide with the Open Charge Map database, and they appear alongside everything else.

From a charger you can get directions, save it to favourites, leave your own rating or note, or report anything inaccurate. Favourites are stored on your device for quick access. Prefer a list to a map? There is a nearby list view too.

Two iPhones showing the Charge Nomad charge map around Brisbane and the Range Estimator tool
// SAFE HOPS, THE TRIP PLANNER

Built around margin, not optimism

Give it a start, a destination, your vehicle and your current battery percentage. It works out the charging stops you need along the route. The difference is what it optimises for.

Arrival buffer

A floor you set yourself

The state of charge you refuse to drop below, defaulting to 15 to 20 percent. The planner treats it as a hard constraint.

Target per stop

80 percent by default

Because the last 20 percent costs time you do not get back. Change it if you want to, the planner adapts.

Gap detection

Told before you commit

Legs where the infrastructure genuinely is not there yet get flagged early, not halfway along the highway.

Why the margin matters: charger availability data in Australia is never fully reliable. A station can be occupied, broken, or offline because the mobile network it phones home through has dropped out. Planning to arrive with charge in reserve is the difference between an inconvenience and a tow truck.

Three iPhones showing the Charge Nomad tools list, home screen and the route planner with charging stops to Sydney

Under the hood

Routing comes from Apple MapKit, chargers along the route from Open Charge Map, and weather-based range adjustment feeds into the calculation.

Trips that stick around

Save a plan to history, keep it as a reusable template for drives you do often, track it as an active trip on the road, or export it as a shareable trip card.

Not purely electric yet?

A fuel station mode covers mixed and plug-in hybrid trips, pulling petrol stations from OpenStreetMap.

// STRANDED MODE

For the worst ten minutes of your week

A separate emergency screen for one scenario: low battery, unfamiliar road, and you need the nearest usable charger right now. Stripped back and fast, with nothing between you and the answer.

A promise, enforced in code

Stranded mode is permanently free of partner cards, affiliate links and sponsored placements. That is not a policy someone could quietly change later. It is enforced in the codebase.

// THE TOOLS

Six calculators, all working offline

Every one of these runs entirely on your device. No connection required, which matters exactly when you are somewhere with no signal and a decision to make.

Range Estimator

Real range from your battery percentage and battery health, rather than the brochure figure.

Charging Time

How long a given stop will actually take, so you know whether it is a coffee or a meal.

Trip Cost

The electricity cost of a drive, and how it compares with doing the same trip on petrol.

Off-Peak Savings

What shifting your home charging to off-peak hours is actually worth over time.

Connector Checker

Whether a plug fits your car, answered before you drive across town to find out.

Vehicle Comparison

Two cars side by side on range and efficiency, useful if you are still deciding what to buy.

// THE GARAGE

300+ vehicles, weighted to what we actually drive here

Behind every calculation sits a catalogue of more than 300 vehicles with WLTP specs, weighted to the Australian market. The picker takes you brand, then model, then variant.

If your car is not listed, because it is an import, brand new, or just unusual, add it yourself as a custom vehicle, including its own battery health percentage.

Vehicles 300+
Spec source WLTP
Custom cars Yes
Platform iOS 17+
Two iPhones showing the Charge Nomad profile screen with badges and settings, and the Charge Nomad Plus screen
// YOUR ACCOUNT

Everything in your control, including leaving

Sign in is your email plus a code sent to that address. From Profile you can edit your account and photo, manage notifications, open the privacy screen and opt out of analytics, and file support tickets that you can track.

You can also delete your account and its data entirely from inside the app. No email to send, no form to find.

Streaks and badges

A light layer of app-open streaks and badges, plus impact stats, a monthly digest and shareable stat cards.

Content tab

A categorised feed of tips and EV news, in its own tab rather than scattered through the app.

// PRIVACY & ARCHITECTURE

Zero third-party SDKs. That is the headline.

No ad networks. No tracking libraries. No analytics leaving your device. Every dependency in Charge Nomad is either Apple's own or built in-house, which is a deliberate architectural decision rather than a marketing line.

Analytics that do nothing

Analytics are wired but currently a no-op sink. Nothing leaves the device. When telemetry does ship, events carry no personal information and any coordinates are rounded to two decimal places, roughly a kilometre.

Location, when in use only

There is no background tracking. Location is processed on your device to show nearby chargers and plan from where you are.

Stored properly

Personal data is held in the Keychain and your profile photo under full file protection. Server side, every table runs row-level security, with rate limits in front of the email and account-deletion endpoints.

Paid placement, always labelled

Any paid placement anywhere in the app must carry a Partner or Sponsor label. That is a release blocker, not a guideline. The partner, affiliate and sponsor systems are built but shipped switched off.

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Built by an EV driver, for EV drivers

Charge Nomad comes from the same place as the reviews on this channel: actually driving these cars around Australia and getting tired of guessing where the next charge is coming from.

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