PTV EV Truck Route Planner — Slavyanka Georgieva

Overview

Can this truck make this route? Now you know.

PTV Logistics is a leading German provider of logistics software. The EV Truck Route Planner answers the question fleet operators face when switching to electric trucks: is this route feasible on battery — and with how much margin?

Planners set a pickup point and stops, and the tool calculates the route using realistic digital truck models — factoring in load weight, road elevation, weather and driving behavior — and shows exactly how the battery will hold up along the way.

Battery feasibility

Charge level calculated along the route, kilometer by kilometer

Clear verdict states

Instantly see if a route is safe, borderline or not possible

Realistic parameters

Load, elevation, weather and vehicle profiles shape the result

Stop-based planning

Pickup point, stops, calculate — a workflow planners already know

Users

Who Uses It

Logistics planners

Simulating whether routes are feasible with electric fleets

Fleet operators

Evaluating the switch from diesel to electric trucks

Enterprise logistics teams

Planning operations around range and charging

Role

My Role

I joined a project that had been started — the user research and analysis were done — and my job was to build the product out: designing the functionality that turns calculations into decisions planners can trust.

Continued a partially built product, working from existing research and user needs analysis
Designed the route card and map visualization — the core surface where planners read route feasibility
Made battery level along the route instantly readable: charge percentage at each stage of the journey
Designed the three feasibility states — comfortable, borderline, and not possible — so the verdict is visible at a glance
Worked with complex interdependent parameters (load, elevation, vehicle profile) feeding the calculation
Worked in a Scrum team with PM, business analysts, developers and QA

Challenges

Challenges & Solutions

Precision the user can feel

The battery calculation depends on many parameters — load, elevation, weather. Oversimplify and planners can't trust it; show everything and they drown.

→Designed the route card to lead with the verdict — battery % and state — with contributing parameters one level below. Trust first, detail on demand.

Three states, zero ambiguity

The difference between "tight but doable" and "won't make it" is an operational decision with real costs.

→Created distinct, unmistakable states — comfortable, borderline, critical — using color, iconography and battery indicators that can't be misread.

Building on someone else's start

The product was already begun; research existed, screens partially did.

→Absorbed the existing analysis, kept the established patterns, and designed the missing functionality to feel like one continuous product.

Screens

Product Screens

EV Route Planner user flow: selecting a vehicle and start location, defining the trip, then route validation showing a completable trip (comfortable battery margin) versus one that cannot be completed (battery depleted before arrival)

EV Route Planner — user flow, from vehicle selection to route validation

Publicly available: ptvlogistics.com Screenshots shown are from publicly available product material.

What this project strengthened: designing decision-support interfaces — where the job isn't showing data, it's making a complex calculation trustworthy at a glance.