Just completed our first real "family road trip" from SF to LA and back. Before this all our trips were just a few hours on a well known route.
Overall we give the Nav and superchargers on our road trip a 'B'. Pretty good but room for improvement.
comment and questions:
1. Supercharger restroom info displayed on nav screen should be better. If possible, Tesla should specify *exact* locations of the restrooms with real user input on the nav screen. It displays the local businesses with approx distances from the supercharger (.1 mile, etc) but would be better to know more about restrooms. When you've spent your life knowing there is a restroom AT the gas station, you want a similar experience at the supercharger. No superchargers I've ever stopped at have restrooms on site so you need to find them.
'Find restrooms' button on the screen and the App? With real user input it should be possible. We saw many Tesla owners hunting around at each stop.....and we did the same.
2. Question: how does the map pick the supercharger to use on route? On our route there were many options, not sure how it chooses, it picks one might be nice to have a couple options. And display the charge price right there on the route display, or have an option "find best charging rate I can use". You need to select the supercharger screen and pick them one by one to find out more. I've found prices range from .19 to .41 and some depend on the time of day.
3. Finally, waypoints! But lots of discussion about this already...
Overall we give the Nav and superchargers on our road trip a 'B'. Pretty good but room for improvement.
comment and questions:
1. Supercharger restroom info displayed on nav screen should be better. If possible, Tesla should specify *exact* locations of the restrooms with real user input on the nav screen. It displays the local businesses with approx distances from the supercharger (.1 mile, etc) but would be better to know more about restrooms. When you've spent your life knowing there is a restroom AT the gas station, you want a similar experience at the supercharger. No superchargers I've ever stopped at have restrooms on site so you need to find them.
'Find restrooms' button on the screen and the App? With real user input it should be possible. We saw many Tesla owners hunting around at each stop.....and we did the same.
2. Question: how does the map pick the supercharger to use on route? On our route there were many options, not sure how it chooses, it picks one might be nice to have a couple options. And display the charge price right there on the route display, or have an option "find best charging rate I can use". You need to select the supercharger screen and pick them one by one to find out more. I've found prices range from .19 to .41 and some depend on the time of day.
3. Finally, waypoints! But lots of discussion about this already...