Tesla trip planner, Plugshare, and Waze

bwilson4web

bwilson4web

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It appears the best approach:
  • built-in Tesla trip planner to next SuperCharger - gives an optimum, fastest route and will show unplanned but needed detours. If you take the detour off of an Interstate, you will be much happier than if you stay on the direct route and get to see road rebuilding and terrible, multi-car accidents. Take the recommended detour.
  • Plugshare - best used pre-trip to layout the overall route between SuperChargers, level 2 chargers, and the quality of service. This is your high level trip planner. Some like 'a better route planner' but I've found it resists my attempts to manually optimize the route.
  • Waze - a segment-by-segment planner, it gives the reasons for detours and traffic conditions. Not an end-to-end trip planner, it provides useful information for avoiding problems.
Bob Wilson
 
I haven't done this yet, but now that A Better Routeplanner supports live SoC information, I'm going to use it to plan my next roadtrip.
 
For recent roadtrips, I consulted Plugshare with appropriate filters and copied [by hand] the
waypoints into my Open Streetmap data on a tablet. That way, I don't have to be online when
planning the next couple of legs, or as I'm zeroing in on the next stop. Rather like pilots do
these days, I had my "nav chart" app in my lap. They actually sell "kneeboard" strap kits into
the aviation market for the purpose, but I don't really need one for an occasional lookup.

The tablet can also record my whole trip. And because it's working offline and only receiving
GPS, nothing is leaking info upstream about where I am.

_H*
 
I went on a mini roadtrip from NYC to Manchester VT using A Better Routeplanner with live SoC data to plan my charging stops. It worked surprisingly well.
 
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