Although not as popular as Google Maps, Waze has been the preferred choice for many years for many drivers who want to use a mapping service while traveling on the road. And the truth is, there are a huge number of reasons for this, although perhaps the most notable is that even though both services belong to the same company, many features debuting first in Wazeand only later will they switch to Google Maps.

This is nothing new, far from it. A perfect example of this is the fact that despite the search engine company acquiring Waze in 2013, it wasn’t until six years later in 2019 that it started bringing some of its most popular features to Maps. from this service, for example information about maximum speeds and speed cameras on the road. Delays for which, to be honest, it is very difficult to find an explanation, because they are a feature highly requested by users.

Yes, the reason why Waze is ahead in the sum of features can be found in its origin because it has always been a collaborative service, in which user contributions are key. Personally, in this regard, I remember downloading the application in its early days and on more than one trip (mainly secondary, of course) “drawing” their layout on the Waze map, which I did not have them yet.

The service’s unwritten tradition is to add at least one new feature every month, and this time we have a feature that electric car drivers will more than welcome. And as we can read in this publication of his official blog, Waze has already started showing information about charging points. This function does not yet have a global scope, but according to what we can read in the mentioned publication «This feature will be rolled out globally in the coming weeks.So you won’t have to wait long.

A common problem for all-electric and plug-in hybrid drivers is that information about charging stations is not as reliable as it should be, and this is where the service’s collaboration model with local editors becomes a big asset. and the differential factor because these will be able provide information about them in real timewhich immediately reaches the rest of the drivers who use the service.