A Better Routeplanner (ABRP)

Recently had a long road trip and the app lead me to an app necessary charger in an area with no cell service. I luckily had enough charge to backtrack an hour along the route and then used plug share and Apple Maps for the rest of the trip because even after I told the app to ignore the charger, there were still frustrating bugs. The app resets the SoC to 100% when you begin to drive even if you set the correct SoC with the slider or manually in the options menu. Buggy nightmare that could have stranded me at night this weekend.

I was excited to try ABRP for a trip to a new area for the long weekend. We know nothing of the area, so relying on charging with the app was essential. I signed up for a 30 day trial, thinking that I would get a yearly membership if it worked out. Well, the trial cut me off after 7 hours. There is not live support. So, we are just stuck without the features we need for essentially the entire trip. If you need reliability for your trip, ABRP is not your app.

This was already not the easiest planning tool, but I figured it out. Then they did a refresh to help and it’s now officially impossible. Deleted and done.

This had to be the worst app I have used with my EV. It tried to route me to a charger that was out of range, regardless of what I did and settings I changed it kept trying to route me to an out of range charger I had to set my min battery to 40% before it added an in-range charger, but then there were more problems. On top of trying to route to out of range chargers, it also routed me to an incompatible Tesla charger (I have the Tesla app and an adapter). Not to mention it forces you to buy the premium version to use with CarPlay. I switched back to using Google Maps; will never use this app and I will be contacting Apple support for a refund.

This app is so glitchy. I started a route and now no matter what I do (even close the app and reopen) I can’t get back to the previous screen. It’s just stuck on navigating.

I regularly use ABRP to plan for and dream up our long distance road trips. Had noticed an issue that was causing non-optimal routing in our 800v EV. After writing a description of the issue in an app review, within 48hr received an email from the development team indicating issue had been addressed and fix. I have now upgraded to premium to show my support for this great team who is focused on user. Thank you

Excellent tool for any ev owner wanting to optimize their trip planning to their needs.

This app works well about 75% of the time. It won’t allow me to update the current battery manually while in route. Sometimes, it completely resets it to a full charge too. It also will randomly send me to the exist past the charging station and have me backtrack. It is maddening. It seemed to work a little better a couple months ago. The concept is great and it is helpful *some* of the time. There were a few times that I started to get worried about the battery getting too low because of the poor navigation.

I just used ABRO on a road trip yesterday, using a Bluetooth OBD dongle for the first time, and it was great. I particularly appreciated that in the corner of the map was the actual current battery level and the predicted battery level on arrival, which updated in real time based on changing conditions. It was really helpful not just to have an initial prediction, but to confirm it or see how it changed based on realtime monitoring. With it, I was able to determine that I would indeed get home without needing to top up even after traffic made me change routes.

Helped with a 1700 mile road trip. Still don’t completely understand how it works and trying to learn. I like the visual of where you’re at and what’s around you. I cannot get the app to sync with my Mustang Mach e range and miles; therefore, one time my car said there wasn’t enough range to make it to the next destination. Several times the navigation would tell us to exit highway 10 yet get right back onto highway 10. That was a little annoying.