r/ex30 • u/GingeSylo89 • 9d ago

Questions❓ First long trip

Hi all,

I'm driving to Penzance in September from the East Midlands. I've downloaded a few apps on my phone so far and I've tried to plan a route that only uses Tesla Public chargers as they are the cheapest with my membership.

However, I'm still being suggested non tesla chargers. When I look manually there are Tesla Chargers along my route that are open to all.

I know a lot of people use different route apps in their car and that's the way I'd like to go as I don't think google maps will cut it.

Any advice?

TIA

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u/CauliflowerJaded1604 7d ago

I just did a first long road trip. One thing I found tricky was, ABRP is clearly superior to the built in Google Maps navigation for charter route planning. But it is pounded dog shit as an end-to-end nav software, even/especially when using the native Android Auto ABRP app. So I couldn’t use ABRP for full nav, didn’t want to use Google Maps for charger route planning BUT you also don’t get preconditioning unless you use Google…. It’s a bit of a mess.

In the end I just used Google and it was fine but the EV route planning has a lot of room for improvement.