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Avid ABRP fan here. I use it religiously with my Tesla Model 3 on road trips and feel confident in its use with my Tesla.
However, we took my wife's new ID.4 on a recent trip and it left me wondering about best practices in vehicles that do not support live data feeds (specifically SOC) while en route. I have gotten used to monitoring the original predicted vs. current predicted arrival SOC. The ID.4 does not appear to support live data feeds (via Tronity), at least in the US, at this time.
I found that while in the app, the live en route display shows Planned SOC and Current SOC, and has up/down arrows around the Current SOC to adjust the current SOC manually. In my head, this provides the desired functionality I have with my Tesla, albeit manually entered. But there are a few problems.
First, adjusting the Current SOC one percent at a time is very cumbersome. For a variety of reasons, the Current SOC is usually way off--either due to a bug or non-ideal functionality of the app with respect to the Planned SOC (sometimes the Planned SOC just makes no sense--i.e. sometimes it uses the live SOC from my Tesla for example, even though I have the car set to ID.4) meaning I have to hit the up/down arrow many, many times to get the correct SOC entered (I wish I could just click on the number and enter the SOC using my keypad).
Second though, adjusting the Current SOC doesn't seem to have the expected effect of re-calculating the arrival SOC. I see the current SOC number going up to what I am setting it to in the elevation/trip graph (although it doesn't rescale the display, so the number just disappears off the top of the graph), but the arrival SOC doesn't change--and that's ultimately what I'm looking to see. And as soon as I hit the Replan button, it goes back to the original Planned SOC value.
I've found the only reliable way to do this is to go back to the settings, manually enter the Current SOC into the Starting SOC, and replan a new route from the Current Position to the original destination. This works, but is fairly workload heavy, and I have to believe that the intent is that there is an easier way to do this. Ideally, it would work a lot like how it does in my Tesla with a live data feed. That is, during the trip, as my Current SOC drifts from the Planned SOC, the graph shows a second line with the updated estimate and estimated arrival SOC.
Am I not using the app as intended in this situation? Is there a better way?
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