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Pioneering Canada’s EV Adoption-EV Everywhere’s Leap to an Integrated, Agile Mobile Platform
Agile Frontend Delivery, Seamless Cross-Team Collaboration, and Mobile Innovation for Electric Mobility Advancement
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EV Everywhere, a national leader in electric vehicle advocacy and infrastructure awareness, engaged Zazz to accelerate its mission: demystify EV adoption and empower Canadian drivers with actionable charging insights. Zazz led the end-to-end frontend engineering and project management aspects of EV Everywhere’s mobile applications, working side-by-side with the backend and data engineering teams. Our mandate: architect and deliver performant, accessible native apps—iOS, Android, and web (ev-everywhere.ca)—that unify real-time station locators, trip planning, and user analytics, all governed by disciplined agile management.
The Engineering Impact
Engineering outcomes that deliver accessibility compliance, enterprise velocity, and future-ready architecture
Rock-Solid Accessibility & Quality
Achieved 100% Accessibility Compliance and Elite App Store Ratings
Accelerated Agile Delivery
Doubled Development Velocity with Integrated Project Management
Scalable, Maintainable Architecture
Futureproof Mobile Foundation for Continuous Innovation
The Challenge
EV Everywhere faced mounting demands to deliver a seamless end-user experience in a fast-evolving, fragmented EV ecosystem. Key challenges included:
- Disjointed Data and Experience: Multiple disconnected sources for EV charging locations, trip planning tools, and analytics hindered adoption among Canadian drivers and limited engagement.
- Accelerating Market Expectations: The rise of sophisticated mobility apps set a high bar for real-time data accuracy, intuitive UI/UX, accessibility, and responsiveness across all mobile platforms.
- Siloed Development Cadence: Coordinating a distributed backend team, entrenched in data and service layers, with a newly onboarded frontend squad, necessitated airtight agile project management to maintain velocity, transparency, and quality.
- Stringent Accessibility & Performance Requirements: Mandated compliance with AODA/WCAG 2.1, multi-lingual support (English/French), and optimal mobile performance demanded robust technical rigor and architectural foresight.
The Objective
EV Everywhere’s executive leadership called for:
- Rapidly delivering consumer-grade mobile apps for iOS and Android built on modular, maintainable frontend frameworks.
- Embedding best-in-class project management processes to align diverse stakeholder groups, enforce delivery milestones, and enable feature-rich, defect-free releases.
- Ensuring complete accessibility compliance and maximizing user engagement for both EV novices and seasoned drivers.
- Laying an agile foundation for ongoing, iterative enhancements and cross-platform scalability.
The Solution
Leveraging our multidisciplinary expertise, we executed across four critical solution pillars:
1. Frontend Mobile Architecture & Engineering
- Designed and built cross-platform mobile applications using React Native, native SDK integrations, and modern UI paradigms.
- Integrated real-time EV charging station APIs, dynamic trip planners, and personalized usage dashboards.
- Achieved AODA/WCAG 2.1, and French/English parity for national reach.
2. Orchestrated Agile Project Management
- Established a high-cadence agile scrum motion: backlog refinement, bi-weekly sprint cycles, burnup forecasting, and daily syncs with backend engineers.
- Implemented transparent tracking via JIRA, milestone mapping, and continuous release reviews to surface blockers and adapt priorities.
3. Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
- Facilitated requirements workshops, shared QA plans, and knowledge transfer sessions between Zazz’s frontend squads and EV Everywhere’s backend/data teams to drive unified solution delivery.
- Embedded QA automation and CI/CD pipelines for rapid regression testing and nightly builds.
4. Accessibility, Stability, and Sustainment
- Conducted rigorous accessibility/user testing, device compatibility assurance, and iterative usability refinements.
- Provided post-launch stabilization (hypercare), documentation hand-offs, and onboarding for internal EV Everywhere support staff.
The Outcome
- Rapid Adoption: Onboarded 7,500+ users within 90 days of launch, with a retention rate exceeding 68% at the 60-day mark.
- Powerful User Engagement: Enabled 12,000+ trip plans and significant reductions in user-reported “range anxiety.”
- Public Sector Value: Bolstered Canada’s clean mobility ambitions, fostering broader awareness and higher citizen engagement through reliable, user-centric digital tooling.
Through an expertly managed, collaborative delivery model, Zazz transformed EV Everywhere’s vision into a reality—delivering a robust, highly accessible mobile platform that advances Canada’s electric vehicle adoption landscape. Our integrated approach to frontend engineering and agile project leadership not only accelerated time-to-market but also set a new benchmark for operational sustainability, accessibility, and ongoing innovation.
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