Anyone Notice Navigation Insists on Local Charging?

I live exactly 5.2 miles from the closest SuC in Woodbridge, Va. It seems that 50% of the time the car prefers to begin the trip by stopping by the local SuC regardless of SOC. Over the weekend, I figured I'd indulge the Nav system. It said I needed to go to the Woodbridge SuC for 0 minutes - and I did. I plugged into the SuC and was instantly ready to go. Failure to comply means the Nav system will attempt to get me to turn around desperately for 8-15 miles into each roadtrip requiring SuC stops when leaving my house (annoying), but I'll get over it for now.

More interestingly, I cannot plan a trip home without it routing to the local SuC regardless of the estimated SOC at the final destination (my house). My workaround for routing home is to simply delete charging stops from the trip screen when I'm at my last SuC stop before coming home. For example, coming from NYC to VA this weekend, I routed to my home, and then at the Newark, DE SuC I deleted all charging stops which resolves the issue. Otherwise, I'm going to the local SuC! All this makes very little sense.

If Tesla wants to discourage local charging, perhaps they should configure the Nav system to stop routing people who live close to the SuC to the local SuC on every trip? Just a thought.

wayner said:

Gives you a quick out if Elon is dissing you for using a local SuperCharger - you can say I was just following orders.

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The thought had crossed my mind...

If I could just delete a particular stop, I'd be happy with such an option. Say I could just delete one SuC on the proposed route - problem solved. It's actually somewhat annoying, because I can't plan a trip leaving my house to say Florida without it routing to my local SuC. The consequence of this is I can't see how much charge I need to make the first real stop in say Glen Allen, VA. What I have to do is route to the Glen Allen SuC, delete all chargers and then see if I have adequate SOC to make that hop. If I could just delete my local SuC, I would, and then I could use the Nav system as intended.

Maybe in v7.0, I guess...

Majerus said:

Delete the charge stops, then add them in manually.

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Can you post a video of that process? I'm not sure it's possible. What would be great is a little "X" to the right of the SuC stops when you press the trip button to see all the chargers selected for the route. Bonus: Show the percentage of charge remaining estimate for the following stop assuming you skipped the next available stop. With that solution, I'd know whether or not I should hit the "X" and skip a SuC on my route.