Monitoring systems and methods for providing remote notification of an electric vehicle status to a user

A monitoring system for use with a charging station (106) is provided. The monitoring system is configured to couple to a battery (110) to be charged, receive at least one input from a user of an electric vehicle (107), determine a charging status of the battery (110) being charged, and provide a remote notification of the charging status to the user based on the at least one input received.