Exactly -- once you "get in the groove" of charging, it's just enough to stretch the legs and recharge before the next leg. I couldn't believe just how good I felt after driving all day. A "traditional" car, I would've been wiped on arrival. This way -- I felt ready to go. Impressive! I'm jealous. My trip to spring training last year was my last flight before Covid hit. Enjoy it!! We got lucky enough to buy our Model X last June, and snagged free Supercharging as an incentive on it. Given Covid, flying anywhere was out, but we felt a road trip could be done fairly safely -- and it was. Trip of a lifetime -- those sights are spectacular, and something everyone should try to do at least once. Just incredible! Take your time and don't rush back to the car. If you leave with a little "too much" charge, that's no worry at all - just means less at the next stop -- or maybe even skipping the next one altogether. Enjoy the trip!!!
Don't have anything to add that hasn't already been said regarding how to use ABRP. Just thought I'd throw in a little tidbit... On the car's browser, keep Tesla Traffic Incidents and Information open. All the goodness of Waze right on the main screen. Edit: Darn it, the forum software is kinda messing up that link. Let's try this, "teslawaze.azurewebsites.net/"
I would only add that you don't have to start out with 100% SOC. Looks like your first stop is only 12min, you could start at 90% and that might only increase your first stop 4min, etc. ABRP is good for testing out ideas.
Has anyone have any issue with the UI when they run this web site? I feel it's very memory intensive and normal use of the screen starts slowing down. sometimes the music starts to skip. Then the web sometimes crashes.
Great idea and allows me to take advantage of regenerative breaking. Starting out at 85% (which is my current limit) I arrive at the first charger with a SOC of 35%, charge for 18 mins to a SOC of 77%.
I will use ABRP to plan a long trip, especially when there's specific waypoints that I want to hit or select a particular highway to use (things that the in-car nav can't do yet), but let the car's nav to actually execute the route. It's a bit of a hassle to keep re-programming the next destination in at each waypoint but if you pre-program them before starting the journey, you can simply select the next stop from the history list.
Yep, it allows you to not have to change your normal charging routine, since you only need to charge for a little longer at your first stop. All other stops remain the same. When you play around with these ideas in ABRP, you realize that, in the future, when supercharger density gets high enough, the larger battery sizes help mostly on the first leg, assuming that charging rates are equally high for all battery sizes, unlike today.
I use ABRP for planning. I like to see alternate routes and have discovered that some are MUCH cheaper because of the way states require of supercharger sites/rates. For example, going from New England to Ohio, I can go through NY or PA. The PA routes is cheaper on supercharging costs ($33) but also avoids the toll road (which sadly, ABRP doesn't care about or add into the costs). NY costs were $54. Certain states are much more expensive than others. The PA route was about 20 minutes longer. Once I know the route, then the Tesla Navigation handles the actual trip so that the batteries are properly managed. I also used ABRP to figure out how different EVs would perform on the same trip. That was quite interesting. Tesla charging costs were $50 and the other cars were from $150 to over $200. Do that when planning your next trip and you can drive quite smugly knowing how much you are saving!