A Better Routeplanner (ABRP)

I've loved, used, and referred the website for years now. Nice to see an app. It took a couple minutes to get past crashing immediately when picking settings, but then after I selected a car it worked fine. What took a few more minutes was discovering preferences were not under the settings menu but instead reached via the top left icon. I was able to log in and pull up saved routes but it failed to calculate a solution for a saved 10 waypoint route. Simpler routes no problem. It would be nice to have an iPad version. Zooming the iPhone version always looks clunky. I'm not sure of the advantages to using the app vs the website direct from my iPad.

VERY highly recommended! This is a marvelous app. While the stock Tesla in-car navigation system is great, abetterrouteplanner is an order of magnitude improvement and makes trip planning a pleasure. The wealth of data that this application synthesizes virtually eliminates any vestige of “range anxiety” that I still had after over a year of Tesla ownership. Among many other features, the ability to select various route options, such as “avoid highways” is extraordinarily welcome, especially since the native Tesla navigation system does not allow such fine tuning. The basic version of this app is great and highly functional but the premium version is well worth it. I would also stress that while it has a few minor glitches (virtually inevitable with a complex application) the developer is so conscientious and so dedicated that I have no doubt that it will continue to improve. The developer has plans to execute a video tutorial, which will be a real plus. If every app developer had his attitude the virtual world would be a far better place!

I have been using their website for a while now, and the route planning is extremely accurate. I’m excited to see it in app form. Use this route planner to better plan your road trips. It’ll adjust for environmental conditions (temperature, road conditions, driving style, elevation) much more accurately than Tesla’s in-car navigation. Be sure to adjust your max speed, temperature, and driving efficiency references for yourself. Your goal should be to arrive at each supercharger with as little charge as possible, because the battery charges more quickly at its lower charge states. This might mean slightly more stops than the default navigation, but much less overall time charging during the entire road trip (stopping twice as often and charging from 10%-50% is still much faster than stopping half as much and charging from 10%-90%). Safe travels!

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I was excited to have a great planning website in app form. Instead we got a clunky UX that’s not as useful as the website was and very frustrating to use. I’ve found most of the old features except “take a long break here” thats important if you’re looking to extend a charge at a specific location for say lunch. The route is impossible to edit and clunky to view in this new app. To add insult to injury you can no longer access the old website on mobile. The king of the route planners is dead to me now. Here’s hoping for another big update. I do realize this is a one person development, who doesn’t use iOS, but it’s time to hire some help or sell the api to a company who can finish what you started. The site was awesome, the app is underwhelming and unusable in comparison.

We find ABRP indispensable for planning our long distance trips. In particular we appreciate being able to evaluate and choose among alternate routes and being able to add CHAdeMO chargers to the mix. We usually start on the desktop or laptop at home and then revise as we travel on the M3’s web browser while we’re charging. The iOS app allows us to revise when we’re out of the car on longer breaks. The UI is a bit quirky and awkward on an iPhone, but all the essential functionality is there.