Just took my first road trip. 900 miles. Used the Tesla nav system. Wasn’t thrilled it made fewer but longer stops. I have some questions so please be gentle on a new EV traveler
1-I always charge to 50% for daily use. When I got to my first SC I didn’t see a screen telling me what SOC I needed to charge to. Knowing my slider was set to 50%, I moved the slider to 90% just in case. After plugging in it told me I needed 73% so I stopped there. My question is: if I had left my daily charger at 50%, would the SC have charged to 73% because that was what was needed?
2-If I had not manually turned off at 73%, would it have continued charging or automatically turned off.
3-I ended up in a location with not a lot of charge. Any way I can tell Tesla I want to arrive with a certain SOC like ABRP?
There was 2 L2 charging ports available in the hotel and one was empty on my arrival. I wasn’t going to leave for a couple days but was hesitant to charge to 80% and leave it there for a couple days. Any issues with leaving the car at 80% SOC for days in a row?
4-I played with ABRP. I want routes with more stops for less time. Can I take the suggestions from ABRP and add the SC stops to my Tesla nav system and let Tesla calculate how long I’ll need to stay to get to the next SC? What happened is that Tesla had me routed to SC A then B. when I tried to add a stop between A and B, it eliminated B as a stop even though I still wanted to go there because I had enough charge to get to my final destination
Can I trust ABRP to use that solely as my planner? Do I just input one SC at a time as my destination and then use ABRP’s suggested charge level as a guide when to stop charging at each stop?
Thanks for your help
1-I always charge to 50% for daily use. When I got to my first SC I didn’t see a screen telling me what SOC I needed to charge to. Knowing my slider was set to 50%, I moved the slider to 90% just in case. After plugging in it told me I needed 73% so I stopped there. My question is: if I had left my daily charger at 50%, would the SC have charged to 73% because that was what was needed?
2-If I had not manually turned off at 73%, would it have continued charging or automatically turned off.
3-I ended up in a location with not a lot of charge. Any way I can tell Tesla I want to arrive with a certain SOC like ABRP?
There was 2 L2 charging ports available in the hotel and one was empty on my arrival. I wasn’t going to leave for a couple days but was hesitant to charge to 80% and leave it there for a couple days. Any issues with leaving the car at 80% SOC for days in a row?
4-I played with ABRP. I want routes with more stops for less time. Can I take the suggestions from ABRP and add the SC stops to my Tesla nav system and let Tesla calculate how long I’ll need to stay to get to the next SC? What happened is that Tesla had me routed to SC A then B. when I tried to add a stop between A and B, it eliminated B as a stop even though I still wanted to go there because I had enough charge to get to my final destination
Can I trust ABRP to use that solely as my planner? Do I just input one SC at a time as my destination and then use ABRP’s suggested charge level as a guide when to stop charging at each stop?
Thanks for your help