The Lightning’s Native Nav is Worthless

[NCevGuyF150]

Just came back from a 1500 mile roundtrip; my god is the nav in the truck worthless. Let me start by saying that I actually once liked the nav when we could plan a route on our phones and push it to the truck. Now that this option isnt available (uhh, why Ford?), here are some gripes:

1. I have done this route before. Down I-75, into Florida’s Turnpike and then SFL. Theres tons of new chargers that have opened. None of which the nav wont recognize. Its stuck in 2023.
   
   
2. I have tried to plan a route with the truck starting from scratch. At one point, it gives you options on automatically or manually adding chargers. Some of the automatically added options were terrible choices. Like a 50KW Chargepoint when 5 miles down the road was a 350KW EA. When you try to manually add chargers, you select your first charger and then all of a sudden, your new route is from where you are at to the charger you selected. It doesnt continue, It does not understand the charger is one of many stops. It refuses to move on to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th charger of choice so I can complete the route I am requesting.
   
   
3. Ok well, let me precondition enroute to a charger by selecting one nearby as I am roughly 30 miles out. Nope, sorry. All the chargers shown as an option are behind me. If I am heading northbound, why show the chargers south of me? It should recognize my direction and exclude those I have already passed. Show me whats infront of me. Instead, it only displays those when I am roughly 15 miles out.
   
   
4. If you are parked and try to plan a route, your first attempt will get you specific stops for charging . If you cancel it and try again, the second routing will not be the same. Nothing has changed. Eventually by the 3rd or 4th try, the nav may display the 1st route it gave you. This is strictly chargers. The charging stops are different every time. Just give me the most efficient route with the fastest chargers and minimal downtime.

I know this probably has been a topic on the past but I really do hope some Ford engineer sees this and puts this project in queue. I understand that were all early adopters. For the amount of money we all spend on these trucks, we shouldnt have to depend on other routing apps. The option we had initially on pushing route’s was great. They took one good thing away and subsequently made it unusable.

Did you try hitting the filter for only level three chargers? I was having the same problem and then I realized there were filters for All, level one, level two, or level three only.

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[jetfixr1]

Did you try hitting the filter for only level three chargers? I was having the same problem and then I realized there were filters for All, level one, level two, or level three only.

Yes