Dissapointed in ABRP

[Dutchman]

We went for the first time on holiday to the Alps with our Opel Ampera(Chevy Bolt). I thought ABRP was the routeplanner to use. At one time on our way home to the Netherlands(1200km) it directed us trough small roads. Very frustrating and unnessary. Later on it directed us away  from the highway through countryroads while 25k later we returned to the same highway. I mean...on a trip of 17 hours. Also once it sent us to a charger away from the highway while 10k later there was a charger on that same highway. Many times during that same trip it just didn't pick up my locaties. My wife and I agreed never to do this again. 

[Borgqueenx]

16 hours ago, Dutchman said:

We went for the first time on holiday to the Alps with our Opel Ampera(Chevy Bolt). I thought ABRP was the routeplanner to use. At one time on our way home to the Netherlands(1200km) it directed us trough small roads. Very frustrating and unnessary. Later on it directed us away  from the highway through countryroads while 25k later we returned to the same highway. I mean...on a trip of 17 hours. Also once it sent us to a charger away from the highway while 10k later there was a charger on that same highway. Many times during that same trip it just didn't pick up my locaties. My wife and I agreed never to do this again. 

check your settings/preferences. It probably wouldn't navigate you offroad to somewhere thats extra driving unless it calculated your car would be empty(then change your car model in the app) or unless you have a preferred charger that it tries to use or evade, depending on what you have set.

[Dutchman]

On 7/7/2022 at 3:24 PM, Borgqueenx said:

check your settings/preferences. It probably wouldn't navigate you offroad to somewhere thats extra driving unless it calculated your car would be empty(then change your car model in the app) or unless you have a preferred charger that it tries to use or evade, depending on what you have set.

well that was not the case. I've heard more problems concerning navigation

[Borgqueenx]

3 hours ago, Dutchman said:

well that was not the case. I've heard more problems concerning navigation

i never had it take weird off-highway roads when i planned my routes.

[jgoodnough]

I'm seeing similar behavior suddenly. ABRP won't chose obvious interstate highways from one point to the next and instead is routing me through secondary highways and city centers. And this is while there is a direct route via the interstate. There does not appear to be a preference to "avoid toll roads" so I don't understand why ABRP would force me onto slow speed, winding secondary roads and cities when I have plenty of charge to follow a nearly straight line direct route to get from A to B. It never did this kind of thing before. This is only since v. 4.2.8

[Ou Boet]

Check your settings.  There are options for fastest arrival, fewer stops (but longer stops) and more stops (but shorter stops).  These settings can drastically affect the route selected.  Also, Google Maps is a product a decade old, developed by one of the richest and biggest companies in the world, it's short sighted to think that a small developer will out perform them in every aspect.  I use ABRP and Google Maps together to come up with the best route (by adding waypoints and guide points to ABRP based on info from Google).

ABRP is a tool to assist EV drivers in selecting appropriate charge locations along their route based on forecast energy usage as well as actual energy usage.  It's not a google maps replacement IMO.  It would be nice if it was.

[henk26]

On 7/6/2022 at 11:16 PM, Dutchman said:

We went for the first time on holiday to the Alps with our Opel Ampera(Chevy Bolt). I thought ABRP was the routeplanner to use. At one time on our way home to the Netherlands(1200km) it directed us trough small roads. Very frustrating and unnessary. Later on it directed us away  from the highway through countryroads while 25k later we returned to the same highway. I mean...on a trip of 17 hours. Also once it sent us to a charger away from the highway while 10k later there was a charger on that same highway. Many times during that same trip it just didn't pick up my locaties. My wife and I agreed never to do this again. 

I think it is in your settings. I just drove from NL to italy and back with ABRP in combination with an ODB dongle and Tronity sync connection for live car data. In the settings I selected live traffic and quickest arrival plus several extra settings for specific my car. Route calculation could at some point indeed be a bit more efficiënt, but ABRP never send me off the highway to secondary slow laders. 

[Jojo]

Hello All

I agree with the opinion, that ABRP is not a good live navigation system. I had similar negative behaviors over the last year and I don't have trust in ABRP navigation. There are also other bugs. Sometimes no rerouting, if you don't follow the plan, sometimes arrow instruction does not fit to blue line on the screen and endless more. At a certain point I stopped reporting all the bugs, because I have also other things to do.

But ABRP is still far better than the internal navigation (VW MEB platform), which is total crap. It's not as good in navigation as Google Maps, but it considers charging and is dynamic.

What could help is to activate the "alternative routing" under "settings" in "navigation". With this, some strange routing suggestions in my city are gone. But I did not compared that on longer routes, where a one to one comparison is difficult anyways.

Bye