Ulmo
Active Member
I've already used this app for a long distance trip that was new to me which had no room for error, since there was no backup charging in it (many 100 to 150 mile legs within which had many 50 mile stretches (often through hills) with not even a house to knock on for help much less a place to charge, some almost freezing weather, etc., but most of it beautiful), and it allowed me to plan it with confidence and get to everywhere without problems. At no point did I get nervous after operating this app for planning. It is definitely a good long distance companion.
There is a steep learning curve, but less than the learning curve of driving an EV long distances, so on balance I find this a superb application once the learning curve has been experienced, and I would recommend it highly to any tech savvy driver who is new to Tesla EV's for their more demanding drive distance routes. It takes about a week of extensive long distance driving and using the app to sort of get the hang of (learning curve), so I highly recommend committing that week, and starting with a pretty complete reading of the documentation and experimentation with the app during that reading to figure it out. This probably takes a few hours before setting out at first, with a healthy dose of cross-referencing with EVTripPlanner.Com and the in-car planner for sanity of confirmation that the app was operated properly and is giving sane results.
I inputted one of the Chademo sites I usually use into the app manually, but from what I understand, updated versions should automatically pull those in if I have the filters set up right.
During beta testing, I did run into a handful of bugs (I have a personality that seems to find every bug without trying), but I found they could be solved with manual intervention (adding a charge point manually, deleting automated ones, manually inputting a buffer, etc.), and since then, most of those have been ironed out, and I suspect the rest of the remaining bugs will quickly dissipate. Please, if you have unusual routes to try, or even regular routes to try and have the time to put into learning a new app (maybe a few hours), don't hesitate to try this app and report the bugs to the developer. He has been quite responsive to the few errors that have come up during this time of development. Be forewarned that the current iPhone version is quite a few versions behind; I don't know why Apple is dragging its feet with sending out the most up to date release (any day now?).
There is a steep learning curve, but less than the learning curve of driving an EV long distances, so on balance I find this a superb application once the learning curve has been experienced, and I would recommend it highly to any tech savvy driver who is new to Tesla EV's for their more demanding drive distance routes. It takes about a week of extensive long distance driving and using the app to sort of get the hang of (learning curve), so I highly recommend committing that week, and starting with a pretty complete reading of the documentation and experimentation with the app during that reading to figure it out. This probably takes a few hours before setting out at first, with a healthy dose of cross-referencing with EVTripPlanner.Com and the in-car planner for sanity of confirmation that the app was operated properly and is giving sane results.
I inputted one of the Chademo sites I usually use into the app manually, but from what I understand, updated versions should automatically pull those in if I have the filters set up right.
During beta testing, I did run into a handful of bugs (I have a personality that seems to find every bug without trying), but I found they could be solved with manual intervention (adding a charge point manually, deleting automated ones, manually inputting a buffer, etc.), and since then, most of those have been ironed out, and I suspect the rest of the remaining bugs will quickly dissipate. Please, if you have unusual routes to try, or even regular routes to try and have the time to put into learning a new app (maybe a few hours), don't hesitate to try this app and report the bugs to the developer. He has been quite responsive to the few errors that have come up during this time of development. Be forewarned that the current iPhone version is quite a few versions behind; I don't know why Apple is dragging its feet with sending out the most up to date release (any day now?).
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