Navigation for road trips

[Radar]

I plan to make a trip from Nevada to Utah to visit Zion park among others. I have the Tesla adaptor, so i can use the Super chargers. In the Sync nav it does not show any super charger locations in the trip planner. So two questions should i set nav to a BlueOval charge network location so it will condition the battery and then use my iPhone map to direct me to a Super charger location near the one that charge network direct me to?. Or should I use ABRP or some other mapping software.
What is everyone else doing?
Peace...

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[carys98]

If you use Android Auto then Google maps will route you to Superchargers and precondition for you. Otherwise your best bet is ABRP with a Bluetooth dongle so it can monitor your SOC. There is a lot of discussion and a lot of people worry about preconditioning but I’ve never seen a very noticeable difference whether I precondition or not. If it’s extremely cold then it is probably worthwhile but even then I doubt it will save you more than a couple of minutes at each stop.

I did the trick where I put in an EA site across the street from a Supercharger on a trip in December. When I plugged in it went right up to 170 kW. Later that day on the same trip I stopped at another Supercharger without preconditioning and it jumped right up to 170 kW. It was around 30F that day.

 

[B177y]

I use ABRP pro with an OBD dongle to navigate for longer trips with multiple DCFC. Recently discussed here:

ABRP data

Even this time of year in that part of the country, the temps should be warm enough that pre-conditioning shouldn't be necessary, recently discussed here:

Preconditioning

I have an Android, so Google Maps through Android Auto allows for preconditioning the HVB when navigating to DCFC as long as you have all of the needed updates in Sync and your phone apps. Even without the preconditioning capability, I much prefer ABRP with the OBD for planning and navigating when needing multiple DCFC stops. Verify everything in Plugshare to get some recent real-world usage reports (and contribute yourself to keep data accurate and current). Also get the Tesla app as that is the definitive source of whether a supercharger will be compatible. The Tesla app does not mirror through Android Auto and I believe it doesn't work through Carplay either, but I have no way to verify the Carplay claim.

My roadtrip report from this fall:

3500-ish mile road trip

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