A Better Routeplanner (ABRP)

I used ABRP for the first time to plan a trip across the big part of the US. It provides all the necessary characteristics to build confidence and peace of mind for the still quite cumbersome endeavor of traveling in an EV. I haven’t tried real-time features yet but I have remarks that would benefit me and hopefully many others. My observations are with the desktop version via browser. - I was not able to assign a place I stay with in-house charging. The interface provides such an option but when used it causes the planning phase to fail with error. I had to remove a waypoint and re-add it. That’s probably just a straightforward bug - The Excel share is poorly designed. The whole point is to make it modifiable that a user could add something. To make it natural and easy columns like duration, time, and mileage should be actual numbers properly formatted. Their relationship should be expressed in formulas, e.g. “arrival time” should be a sum of “departure time” + “charge time” + “drive time” - It would be great to have properly formatted and visually distinct measurements of full daily activities, such as total mileage, time spent charging and driving, average speed (and maybe additional derivatives) - Both Google and Apple Maps have a limit on the number of waypoints you may have. So a big chunk of the trip will not be converted to either of these step-by-step instructions. So if ABRP provided a way to export parts of the path or better yet recognize that the number of waypoints is larger than the underlying application allows, split it into multiple maps with all details preserved - Many people, myself included use Google Sheets for all my spreadsheet needs. It is not hard to convert to this format from Excel but to have it natively will not hurt I created essentially everything that I described here, except #4, manually and it takes time I want to reiterate that I enjoyed using the app, it is helpful and I give all the kudos to the team that implemented it. Don’t hesitate to contact me if you feel that not everything I explained is clear. I am pretty confident that all these enhancements should be a small potato compared with the work that has been already done

It would be nice to have dark version of icon

I use it for all trips

I depend on this as part of my preparation for a long journey, and it never fails me. EV‘s are very tough and very different than what we’re used to as far as road tripping and refueling, it is so helpful to have the kind of information that a better route planner provides, the range and charger anxiety diminish. Well done !

If you have an EV, you need ABRP. Period.

I would love to see in a future update the ability to see live data such as battery temperature within the CarPlay interface just like we can see on the phone. Since this directly affects the DCFC acceptance rate I think it would be helpful and a bit safer than trying to view it on the phone while driving. This is a super helpful app for EVs without charger route planning functionality built in and continues to get better as time goes on. This app paired with an OBDLink CX has really helped to curb my range anxiety.

Title says it all. All features you could possibly want to get your EV trip done with smooth charging. Drive that EV and charge with confidence!

A number of usability problems exist; map zooming is either all of the way in or all of the way out, the text input function is partially broken, this can be installed on a Mac Studio but should not be allowed due to complete wonkiness.

It is a bit robust to use, but reliable.

Like many others I gave up waiting for Ford to integrate MACS routing into their nav or Apple to do the same. I decided to try ABRP with the OBDLink CX dongle on my Ford Lightning. I have to say this app is on another level with this live data. The predictions are so good and routing is effortless, dare say even more robust than Tesla’s routing. My only issue are some minor visual bugs when leaving it up with no route on the screen. I have a ticket in for those and once resolved I will change my rating to 5 stars. Bottom line: Incredible app when integrated with live data.