A Better Routeplanner (ABRP‪)‬ 4+

The routing, charging information and integrations for live vehicle data are awesome - leading the market, and should deserve a premium mark and be worth a subscription. BUT it just falls short on delivering the premium features.
Live data from the car requires another paid integration (obd hardware or TRONITY) making it even really expensive.
The UX is not the easiest to use in planning journeys and setting parameters
CarPlay integration is poor. As a premium feature, it doesn’t run independently so when the phone is used by the passenger, guidance stops. And the map doesn’t work in dashboard mode.
Improve the integrations and the premium features and this will be worth the money.

It’s a really frustrating user experience. I tried this on a up to date iPhone 13 Pro Max and found it to be poor at coping with normal situations like closed roads which sent the app into a loop and it directing me into car parks and other roads that make zero sense. It randomly updates your battery percentage after a stop to the starting percentage like jumping to 90% from 56. Using the manual adjustment also doesn’t work properly to fix it. It also crashes randomly at points in the journey. I ended up using both Google maps and this app on the return journey at the same time. I used Google maps to double check the route ABRP was sending me after it sent me the worst possible route on my outward journey after missing a turn. It’s these real world dynamic situations ABRP is really poor at dealing with as a navigation app.

This app is so useful for anyone with an EV who ever makes trips that require charging away from home on public chargers.

Makes it so simple to plan a trip. Knows your car and how efficient it is. It knows the terrain and how it will affect your consumption. It knows how weather and temperature affect it. And it puts it all together to tell you when and where to charge. You can then fine tune the plan yourself if you want to. Either choose a different charger because you want to stop earlier, or maybe tell it to ignore a charger because you know it won’t work with your car or its next to your ex-wife’s house!

And then, once you’ve made your plan, set it to “drive” mode and it will keep you updated with where you are and what your SOC is. On some cars it can even monitor the car’s systems and adjust itself to your driving style (not my car sadly). But any time you go off route it will automatically recalculate. This app is genius and for my car at least it is so accurate I have started trusting it implicitly.

Drive an EV? Get this!