Possibly out of range and stuck?

[hemiarch]

API. Gets the data from your vehicle, and you can customize it beyond that. As implied by others (I don’t mind saying it explicitly), those praising the OEM software have clearly never used ABRP.

Tesla is good and reliable in the car. ABRP was trying to figure this shit out before Tesla ever knew what it was missing. Developed by an early Tesla owner and recently purchased by Rivian.

Most of the advanced features that Tesla just added to navigation (set arrival charge percentage, etc) were innovated by ABRP years ago. Also, until recently if you wanted to do mapping and planning with your car you had to do it from your car. You’ve always been able to do it on your phone or PC with ABRP.

If you’re about to get stranded and you’re sitting in the hotel or at dinner trying to figure this shit out, I would be using ABRP. PERIOD. If there is a publicly accessible solution ABRP is going to find it for you I would not trust Tesla’s Navigation for that. In network? Sure you’d be crazy to look at anything else. This guy’s situation?

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So, when I previously would say even ABRP can’t find me a viable route to Ely Nevada and back what that means is “the state of the art tool for this type of thing can’t do it, so it can’t be done.”

* With publicly available charging solutions.

Ok then. I must try it. Thank you.

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[Sjohnson20]

Wow you need a CCS adapter in those areas I guess. Really shows that more charging is still needed.

 

[CybertruckPilot]

Much appreciate everyone’s responses. I definitely have some lessons learned on my first extended road trip.

An EASY technique that I've used road tripping is to always put a location in the NAV past my last stop for the day that requires a charger calculation to reach ... then I always have enough charge at my last stop. Never rely on the hotel having an available charger, so I do the same for those stops as well.

It has worked well, having driven through forty five states. And yes, I do pack the mobile with some plugs and the J1772 to use when needed.

 

[CyberGus]

ABRP has the advantage of having a web interface... to plot a route with Tesla's data, you must use the Tesla interface, which can't really be shared online.

Sometimes I just sit in the truck even when I have nowhere to go, but that's a different story

 

[mcvaughan]

Guys, made it to Las Cruces with 4%!

 

[dalton108]

Guys, made it to Las Cruces with 4%!

Livin’ on the edge!

 

[ABILISK]

Nav is kinda mean sometimes. Unless you specify the percentage you want to arrive with it’ll let you get places extremely low.

 

[hemiarch]

Nav is kinda mean sometimes. Unless you specify the percentage you want to arrive with it’ll let you get places extremely low.

Yeah. When you allow it to replace common sense.

 

[ABILISK]

Yeah. When you allow it to replace common sense.

True lol. I’ve always been like “yeah, I’ll make it to the hotel, but then what?” Others might need a little more dummy proofing. This whole thread is a case in point.

 

[hemiarch]

I assume I’m gonna lose about 10-15 miles overnight using the car like I want to.

 

[ABILISK]

I assume I’m gonna lose about 10-15 miles overnight using the car like I want to.

Sounds about right. I keep it on percentage but lose 3-4% overnight if it’s not plugged in.

 

[HaulingAss]

Guys, made it to Las Cruces with 4%!

I've found the native Efficiency App in all Tesla to be more accurate than the A Better Route Planner, primarily because the Efficiency App is self-configuring, while the A Better Route Planner requires you to manually configure a huge list of trip/vehicle variables and it's easy to overlook one or two variables (or get them wrong) which will throw off your calculations.

The native Tesla app is generally dead on. Even if it were off, for whatever reason, it would immediately show up in real-time as the estimated trip consumption graph depicted diverging lines between estimated and actual consumption, allowing the driver to adjust their speed to bring the two lines back together.

And, just as importantly as accuracy, the Tesla app doesn't require me to provide my Tesla credentials to a third-party company that probably doesn't have as good of security protocols to safeguard the disclosure of your credentials to bad actors. There are a lot of big money financial interests who would love to harm Tesla's reputation by getting backdoor access to thousands of Tesla owners credentials held by low-budget third-party app developers.

My Golden Rule: Never give your Tesla credentials to anyone.

 

[HaulingAss]

True lol. I’ve always been like “yeah, I’ll make it to the hotel, but then what?” Others might need a little more dummy proofing. This whole thread is a case in point.

I always Supercharge before I arrive at my hotel (assuming it doesn't have on-site EV charging). That way I can pre-condition the battery before I fast charge turning a 50 minute morning charge session into a quick 20 minute affair. It's better for the battery too, to charge with a warmed battery, rather than letting it get cold overnight sitting outside at your hotel.

 

[hemiarch]

So…how as almagordo? All I know about it relates to nuclear history. Worth a stop?

 

[mcvaughan]

Livin’ on the edge!

seriously was. We had a trip to White Sands planned and we did that. When we finished that the route planner at first was saying arriving with 0% but then it changed to 1. I decided I was going to risk it and drive like a grandma. 55-57 in a 75 zone. Gained 3% by doing that.

I was seriously sweating stranding everyone in the truck today!

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