We are getting ready to do our first 'long' trip (350 miles) and have a question of the Tesla route planner versus the other two major ones (A Better Trip Planner and EVTrip Planner). I did a search but didn't find any recent information...
So, we are driving from mid Michigan to Dayton next month and now that I got my 75kW pack unlocked (60D originally, 2019.8.5 update) I wanted to see what the Tesla Nav said to do. I had just charged to 100% when I did this and said to route me to the Dayton SC (want to fill up before arriving at the final destination as there is no charge option there). It showed the expected route (I75 to US23 to I475 then back on I75) with a single stop in Ann Arbor MI (50 minute charge) with 12% remaining there and 10% when we get to the Dayton SC.
I then used both of the external web based planner and was amazed at the difference. First, they both asked a lot of very pertinent questions like expected driving speed, weight in vehicle, inside and outside temp, expected wind speed, etc. Both then showed the desired route (although A Better Trip Planner took me the wrong/longer way until I corrected it) and they had me stopping at 4 SC along the way for much shorter time periods (10-25 minutes) with both trying to keep my pack in the sweet spot of SOC (I did put in that I wanted to arrive with at least 20% at time for SCing).
For those of you who have taken many long trips, do you trust the Tesla one?
Is there a way to tell it to leave a little more buffer than 10%? (I have gotten a screen notice about low battery even when it was at 20%; how do they justify routing you with it going down to 10%?)
If the car sees it has screwed up (battery level is not going to make it) does it reroute you? or tell you to slow down?
Do you run with Range Mode On for long trips?
Thanks for any insight....
So, we are driving from mid Michigan to Dayton next month and now that I got my 75kW pack unlocked (60D originally, 2019.8.5 update) I wanted to see what the Tesla Nav said to do. I had just charged to 100% when I did this and said to route me to the Dayton SC (want to fill up before arriving at the final destination as there is no charge option there). It showed the expected route (I75 to US23 to I475 then back on I75) with a single stop in Ann Arbor MI (50 minute charge) with 12% remaining there and 10% when we get to the Dayton SC.
I then used both of the external web based planner and was amazed at the difference. First, they both asked a lot of very pertinent questions like expected driving speed, weight in vehicle, inside and outside temp, expected wind speed, etc. Both then showed the desired route (although A Better Trip Planner took me the wrong/longer way until I corrected it) and they had me stopping at 4 SC along the way for much shorter time periods (10-25 minutes) with both trying to keep my pack in the sweet spot of SOC (I did put in that I wanted to arrive with at least 20% at time for SCing).
For those of you who have taken many long trips, do you trust the Tesla one?
Is there a way to tell it to leave a little more buffer than 10%? (I have gotten a screen notice about low battery even when it was at 20%; how do they justify routing you with it going down to 10%?)
If the car sees it has screwed up (battery level is not going to make it) does it reroute you? or tell you to slow down?
Do you run with Range Mode On for long trips?
Thanks for any insight....