Category: Electric Vehicles
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trippler at Melbourne Python meetup
I recently presented a version of my PyConAU trippler talk at the February 2026 Melbourne Python meetup. I made a few minor updates, such as incorporating the new contingency and multi-destination functionality, and this may have caused me to run a little over time… Running a little over time must have angered whatever deities watch…
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trippler multi-destination
It’s time for my EV trip planning app trippler to cater to multiple destinations, beyond the beaten track of simple A-to-B trips. This is another feature I decided I needed when planning and driving The Cross to The Cape. Multiple changes I’ve wanted multiple destinations for some time, but recent refactoring of the UI and…
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trippler contingencies
Planning a dawn-to-dusk adventure from snow to surf in an electric vehicle meant not just planning for resilience, to allow for changes to the plan, but also planning for contingencies, to know in advance exactly how to respond to changes. Carnival of carving We lay our scene on the descent from Mount Hotham to Cape…
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trippler at PyConAU
I was thrilled to be back for my second PyCon AU – with a wonderfully diverse and inclusive group of technologists – presenting on trippler in a talk titled An EV Trip Planner for Australia. I got a great feedback, including a suggestion to incorporate the many very Australian BIG things we might encounter on…
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trippler for Aotearoa New Zealand
Planning to present my PyCon AU talk to an internal audience at MYOB, I realised the title An EV trip planner for Australia, while entirely appropriate for an Australian conference on Python, wasn’t as inclusive as it could be for the members of a technology organisation encompassing Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. So trippler now…
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Reflecting on UI polish
I’ve been meaning to give the trippler UI a glow up for MY2025 and my PyCon AU selection finally provided the impetus. In previously envisioning migrating to a Javascript front-end (vibe coded?), I was possibly making the next step bigger than it needed to be, as I’ve managed to squeeze a bit more out of…
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Charger hopping
While it’s nice to make good time, when in remote areas, sometimes any route will do. For EV road trip planning in trippler, I first found the direct route, then chose chargers along the route. This approach can fail when there aren’t enough chargers close to the route, as in remote areas. Charger hopping is…
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Stop thinking
EV road trips have a different cadence. You might need to charge an EV up to twice as frequently as you’d refuel an ICE vehicle (depending on the pair compared). However, given people need to stop too, this doesn’t necessarily mean trips take longer, and the different pattern of stops may even make the trip…
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An evergreen question: what is an MVP?
I was asked this the other day. My answer was: it depends on the context; it helps to have an example. And the contextual element is probably why this remains an evergreen question. While I have a fresh example in mind I thought I’d quickly plant a stake in the ground for reference. First, it…
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trippler development notes
This is the behind-the-scenes companion post to a resilient charging planner, sharing more on the development process and how the app works, with links back to earlier work. Design philosophy I wanted to focus on the core problem of interactively exploring charging options under varying trip requirements. I wanted a tool that I would use…