I just drove from Charleston SC to New Jersey, and noticed three things.
First, Navigator kept changing recommended charging stops, which caused me to waste time charging the battery well into the taper in a couple of places. Cost me over half an hour more in time than my last trip.
- Initially, it said to charge at Lumberton, Rocky Mount and Woodbridge. Lumberton was fine - next stop Rocky Mount. That was a long charging stop to "fill up" enough to Woodbridge.
- Somewhere late into the charging cycle, it decided I needed to stop at Glen Allen, but never indicated anything - no change in charging destination, and more importantly, did not indicate that it had enough charge to reach the next destination. After nearly an hour, I looked at the navigation map and saw that it was now saying to stop at Glen Allen. The remaining energy estimate showed I would have over 30% of battery left when I arrived. I was already well into the taper zone, with 93% charge at this point.
- Glen Allen said next stop Newark, but shortly after arriving it decided on Woodbridge again. Short charge at Glen Allen since Woodbridge is such a short distance away, then a somewhat longer charge at Woodbridge.
- I was going to stop at Newark anyway to have a high-percentage charge when I got to NJ, since my destination is in between Newark and Hamilton and I have only 110V 15A charging available at my destination.
I did NOT have this behavior during my two previous trips to NJ.
Second, and rather scarily, the IC did not show several semis in the right-hand adjacent lane - AT ALL. The major problem seems to be with bathtub trailers (gravel trucks and the like). It saw box trailers, flatbeds, and tankers, but did NOT see bathtubs several times! That land showed on the display as clear as I came up upon and passed these trucks. If I had signaled autopilot to move into the right lane before I got close enough for the ultrasonics to detect the wheels, I doner if the car would have moved over? THIS is a bug that needs attention!
Finally, I had the low charge rate problem at a couple of superchargers that others have noted in other threads. In Newark, for example, I was charging at 46kw according to the charging info - with no one else charging in Newark, and about 30% battery charge. I stopped and restarted charging a couple of times, and the rate rose to the more usual 100-105kw. I think this predates 8.0.
One more thing - is there a time limit on bug report now? I started a bug report about these issues, and after about 15 seconds it times out. Never did that before when you had to hold the button down.