While on the road what is the best way to find out where blocks might be in place?
On google maps, you can enable traffic reporting which shows roadworks, accidents and delays. Itās usually pretty accurate. There are websites that do the same like Bison FutĆ©.
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Use Waze. Up to date information. Users can add blockage info in real time-and they do.
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Waze is now part of Google maps.
Alwaze was using Google maps but user interaction was itās strong point. See how the Google adoption works out.
It provides āliveā updates on road conditions, holdups, police activity etc.
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Sounds good, with some of the old satnavs like Garmin and TomTom they used to plan a route but only download data in sections so you could end up near a traffic hold up unwittingly. With Google and Waze etc they seem better and flag up hold ups on the planning side. Sygic has had some good upgrades as well recently.
Waze occasionally drops voice directions in my car for no apparent reason, hence having plan B and C 
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Waze got me across the Pennines some years ago during the ābeast from the eastā when radio stations were reporting all routes across were closed. It meant I was able to get my flight home.
Just last week it got me to hospital on time despite the efforts of French farmers to prevent it.
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I find Waze more reliable than google maps. One may own the other but maybe they donāt share the same platform or information.
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I think weāve probably seen as much as weāre going to see, since Google has owned Waze for well over a decade. I like Google maps and Waze for different reasons and some of the omissions are quite irritating e.g. Google maps doesnāt display actual speed, Waze doesnāt show live chargers on the map (at least as far as I know).
My ideal would be a blend of the two
Then maybe Sygic would fit the bill, it has been upgraded for an EV user, not actually tried that part myself.
Just did a dummy trip on Sygic after setting up a 2nd profile for an EV (specād Skoda Enyaq) it shows almost all EV chargers on route even those not for the public which seems daft. It did show the spec of the chargers and if accurate the number available and in use. Thatās the good bit, it would take a bit of patience for a nubie to use as a seasoned user it was not fantastically intuitive. I have the lifetime agency but I see they also have an annual plan including bells and whistles like live traffic and live traffic rerouting which is a bit clever. Also plenty of other features but I would still say a little tricky to use. I put in leaving with 100% battery and that level didnāt seem to reduce as the journey planner travelled along, maybe it does when actually using it rather than demo mode.
Another advantage is that the pronunciation of place names fits the country unlike Google. We hadnāt discovered Waze until after we did a couple of road trips in Greece. The Google voice guidance gave intolerable (to me) mispronunciation.
There seems to be sharing of Waze information in google maps - itās quite common for a box to pop up on screen observing that Waze has reported issue and asking us to confirm if the hazard/holdup is still there.
It does when navigating, but not when navigation is off. Likewise it shows the road speed limit when itās guiding, but not if you turn off the guidance.
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I wish the speed limit digits were bigger in Waze. Iām going to be forced to change to varifocals as I cannot any longer reliably read the speed limit while using driving classes. Iāve read that exceeding the speed limit by 50kph is becoming a criminal offence. I think it would be easy to do this accidentally if a sign were missed. Fortunately Waze does give an audible alert.
Please contact Waze about this, I have but itās going to take more requesting this mod.
Just tried Waze in EV mode, TBH itās pants for that but does show some information if you keep pressing the EV charging tab.
A better route planner app is better for planning with EVās in mind.
It shows the speed limit but not the actual vehicle speed, which Waze does do. Thatās another Google Maps annoyance, that it only shows speed limits when a route is set.
Pretty sure mine also shows vehicle speed, though possibly only when the phone is used stand-alone and not in Android Auto.
On my phone, it does show the actual vehicle speed.
Does it do it on Android Auto? Iāve perhaps missed a setting somewhere
Thatās just google maps, selecting a route and then hitting start. Maybe Iāve turned something on in the settings that does this.