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A better route planner
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puckpurnell
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I'm not an ABRP user myself - though I have it on my favorites - but there are enough users of the program on this forum to justify a thread. I like hearing the feedback from Tesla users. Just my $.02 
Dr. J
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puckpurnell
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RayK
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Just so we're clear, if you do not see a list of the Supercharger stops along the way, with the times and mileage between stops, then you have hidden that menu. There's a up-and-down arrow between two horizontal lines in the upper left. Click it. If the Settings gear icon is not visible, i.e., the route plan is displayed, then click the Back icon to get there. In the Settings are the usual things you can specify/change to plan your route.
You want to come in low though so the car charges quickly as it charges less quickly as it gets full. I do agree though that you could have a problem especially if you get in and the chargers are broken. I use ABRP as a guide for long trips to get a feel for how long it would take and different scenarios, but I'm not thrilled with it.
Yes, that is what I have done. I've used ABRP several times before although admittedly not in more than a year. I have my car info loaded as well.
Kimmi
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You can change arrival SOC in Settings > Detail. Lots of settings can be customized, even in the free version.
You can set your Charger arrival SOC. I like 15%, because that's enough for about 60 miles on surface roads, which should be enough to get to a charger. If you actually pay for ABRP, $5 a month, you'll find that the additional wind calculation makes the destination SOC levels extremely accurate. I just drove roundtrip from Maine to Colorado, 4400 miles, and faced 16mph headwinds there, and tailwinds on the way home, and ABRP was accurate to 1% SOC, and I had to supercharge 40 times. The Tesla planner was off up to 15% SOC, because of the headwinds and lack of temperature adjustment.
You would think Tesla would update their planner to account for those things. It is not like the car doesn't have a cellular connection to the internet to get that data.
Agreed. 20% is most comfortable for me, and 20-80% takes now time. I rolled into Goleta Supercharger at 20% a few days back, and with the mess of construction and multiple queues of cars, I was lucky enough to be able to leave and go to Montecito.
Wasn't aware of the wind calculations in ABRP paid version, but I will give them props for waypoints.
Yep, still there, but if you do the 14-day free trial, $5 a month afterward, it'll get the wind data, automagically, and the results are very, very accurate. I faced headwinds of up to 17mph going West to Colorado, and the SOC estimates were always within 1% of predicted at arriving. That's interesting to me, since I was also running the Tesla planner, and it was off by 15%. Since I use a SOC arrival target of 15%, if the planner is off by 15%, due to 90F temps and 17mph headwinds, then the margin of error is nil. Using ABRP is very accurate, obviously, with good inputs.
I don't know why Elon wouldn't buy ABRP and incorporate it into the planner, since the more accurate the trip predictions, the lower your target SOC can be, and thus your practical useful range is longer.
