beeeerock
Active Member
I agree. The software is still in its infancy from a usability perspective. I haven't played with it extensively yet, but the basic things I naively think I should be able to do to edit my trip, I apparently can't.After our last trip, It's quite clear to me that with the new "Range Anxiety" preventing software, you still have to use your head while on a trip.
In sharp contrast.... I played with the evtripplanner site the other day before a day trip of about 360 km round trip, with plenty of up and down. I set the parameters very carefully and drove to what I said I would, speed limit wise. When I got back, I adjusted the temperature settings etc. to reflect what I actually saw and ran it again. Evtripplanner estimated my consumption at 170 Wh/km... the trip meter in the car indicated a realized power consumption of 171 Wh/km.
That was only one test... but wow...! If the site is advertising correctly and the developer is in fact the 16 year old kid accepting donations for his college fund, perhaps Tesla should be hiring him to develop their trip planning app. I'll experiment with it more to see if this was a one-off lucky hit, but if he can do it as accurately as this test suggests, without the inside information the Tesla folks must have, surely the in-car app should be better than it is!