This is the first post on the WattsNear blog. The plan: roughly one practical, no-fluff post per week, focused on the questions EV drivers actually ask in the wild.
What you’ll find here
- City-by-city cheapest-charger roundups. Where the actual cheap public charging is in Austin, Denver, Phoenix, the Bay Area, Atlanta, NYC, and the other top US metros — pulled live from the U.S. Department of Energy’s NREL data.
- Trip-planning guides. Real-world range math for common EVs on common road trips. What WattsNear’s trip-range calculator gets you, and where you still have to plug in your own judgment.
- EV-charging explainers. What NACS vs. CCS vs. CHAdeMO actually means for your car. How to read NREL’s pricing strings. When “free” charging is actually free and when it’s a bait.
- WattsNear feature deep-dives. New tabs, widget tips, Siri shortcuts you didn’t know existed, CarPlay tricks for road trips.
What you won’t find here
- Sponsored posts. No charging network paid for placement here, and none ever will.
- Affiliate links. We don’t take cuts on EVSE purchases or charger-network subscriptions.
- Tracking. The blog inherits the same privacy posture as the app: no analytics SDKs, no cross-site tracking pixels, no third-party scripts at all.
If you want the next post the moment it ships, the RSS feed lives here. Otherwise check back about once a week.
— Andrew