Hey blincoln,
I've used ABRP on two road trips in the past 2 weeks, thanks a lot for all the updates so far!
A few suggestions/bugs/etc:
- The map zoom level seems to want to reset if you drive away from what ABRP believes is the route you're following. Sometimes I divert away from that route due to traffic, construction, or accidents, since I use ABRP for charge planning but Waze on my phone for the actual navigation. Under the same condition, it will also stop showing the graph because it believes you're not on the prescribed route.
- It would handy to have a zoom level indicator somewhere on the map. It doesn't have to be an actual scale value, just a setting number such that I can go back to that zoom level later. For example, if all the way zoomed out is level 1, I might want to view the map at level 4. That way if I scroll the map, change zoom, or leave ABRP, I can come back to it and reset the zoom to level 4.
- When clicking the "details" button to toggle between the SOC graph and the trip details, there's a few values there that don't make a lot of sense to me. Do you have documentation on where those values are coming from and/or how they're calculated? Some tweaks here might be helpful to more clearly display this info.
- Right now, I can't navigate away from ABRP to another web page and then navigate back and pick up where it was. I have to do a replan, which requires editing the settings, and I lose any SOC tracking that I had going. I sometimes want to go to my Tesla Winds website to get a picture of current headwinds, or a weather site, or Tesla Waze. I'd like to go back to ABRP and have the page in the same state it was in when I left. (At least until Elon gives us a tabbed browser).
- If the starting location for a route plan is "My Current Position", you should also assume that the starting SOC is the current battery level unless the user specifically types in a different starting SOC. When doing replans, I always have to manually put in the current battery SOC, otherwise it uses what I had previously entered on the last plan.
- Similarly, if the current starting location is "My Current Position", then the starting time should be set to now. When I do replans, the times aren't accurate because I usually don't type in the current time.
- If the plans cross time zones, the times are not local to the location of the supercharger or the waypoint/destination.
- For the times, it would be useful in some cases to input an arrival time instead of a departure time, and calculate the times backwards so that the plan tells you when to leave.
Again, great work on this tool, it's my go-to tool for route planning.
My ultimate wish would be that Tesla gives us a nav system that integrates your charge planning from ABRP, the responsiveness and integration with the car of the native nav, and Waze routing. Right now I frequently have 3 maps up when driving on road trips -- Tesla nav, ABRP, and Waze on the phone.
