For those of you who have received the 6.1 update, how well does the Trip Energy Prediction work? Do you have any qualms? I was considering making a phone app / phone browser optimized web app to help plan road trips, but with the release of 6.1, there doesn't seem to be much of a need. For those of you who have used 6.1, is this impression correct?
EV Trip Planner offers many benefits, but I do think you could rework your site to maybe "feel" more integrated with the new features. Though my car isn't up to 6.1 yet I've read all the threads and seen all the photos. It seems like it will do a good job showing before/during/ending battery % in the car, but as noted above from others, it still only works from point A to point B.
Your site is far better for "long distance" trip planning (i.e.: end of March we're going from Cleveland, Ohio out to New Jersey and your site has been paramount in helping me easily figure out where to stop, for how long, etc). It would be super cool to add a feature to your site where it would say "you must hit X miles rated range and Y percent battery before leaving THIS station, to ensure you make it to the next station".... perhaps not going below 10% remaining just to be safe (or make that user-settable).
Here is how I envision using your site while being under 6.1 (whenever my darn update arrives)
Step 1 - Planning the trip
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EV Trip Planner -- Plan my route through superchargers. This is useful because your site makes it easier to visualize WHICH chargers I do or don't need/want to visit. Again there could be some higher level tweaking your site could add that would help the users best utilize the ideal route (something Tesla/6.1 doesn't do yet). From there it would be actually super-awesome to have it push out just a list of chargers -- or a nicer print-out-route feature (the CSV export is nice, but a pretty list of "where i'm going to stop" might be slick)
Step 2- Taking the trip
At this point if you're armed with the places you plan to stop, that is great. As you arrive at each supercharger, it would be awesome to have that list handy because it would show you what you (EV Trip Planner) projected both for miles of travel, but also for how many miles of range and % of battery you'll need. Right now, even under 6.1, you'd actually have to plug in, set your nav to next destination, and then look at screen to see the miles. Even then, once you see the miles distance -- you have to do math in your head. You can wait until the car says "you have enough power/%" -- but again, EV Trip Planner could pre-load you with that info in your brain (on that sheet you took with you-- or perhaps create a calendar event in iPHone/Android?)
Anyhow.... I hope this helps.... LOVE your site.... still need to donate (sorry, just got my car a month ago -- tho an early 2014)