Tesla Navigation - How To; Tips & Tricks for Fast Road Trips
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- In this video I cover how the Tesla Navigation works for road trips and I give you some tips and tricks for getting to your destination faster.
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On tesla navigation (as well as google maps etc) you can add stops to your trip. This is REALLY GOOD for choosing the superchargers you actually want to use if you plan ahead. The car will know you want to charge there and will let you know for how long to get to the next one you put in. It’s super convenient for this purpose so you don’t have to remember which charger is next and put that in your nav at every stop!!
It’s also great if you don’t have a charger at your destination and you want to make sure you have enough battery to return. Just navigate to your return location, then add a stop as your destination and it’ll make sure you have enough to get there and back!
Super underrated feature
I agree 100%. Been doing it this way for five years. It's slightly faster and much more relaxing.
100% Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the nice video! I drive a 2019 Chevy Bolt, and it has similar issues around the charging curve. In the 20 months I've had it I've slowly gotten less prone to range anxiety with experience.
This was suuuper helpful! There are phone apps that can be helpful but it’s so much easier to integrate with the actual nav on the car. I love this just choosing a closer charger on the route.
I just finished my first road trip in my M3SR+ and I employed the same technique that you talked about. It was simple and fast. We had no range anxiety and the car was indeed ready well before we were ready.
Additionally, we couldn't have done it faster in an ICE vehicle since all the charging stops we made were stops we would have made anyway regardless of what vehicle we were driving.
Lastly, I calculated a cost comparison and driving the M3 came out to less than 1/4 of what it would have cost to drive my ICE. Ya, I love my M3SPR.
Glad you had a great experience. I'm sure you will have many more. Thanks for watching!
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Thanks for your videos! Love them! Keep it up! Loved the video when you debunked the myths about EVs
Great tip. Thank you for this video
Taking a road trip and this video was awesome for me. 😊 thanks
Hope to try it one day. Thanks for the supercharging tip.
Glad you found it useful. Thanks for watching!
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Interesting but I do my road trips exactly the opposite way. I prefer to fill up to at least 85% or more before going to my next charging station. I like to have a good solid two or more hours between stopping and have 25% when I do stop. I just did from Iowa to Florida and back and that process worked out great. I'd much prefer to stay longer at a stopping place, especially if it's at a whole foods or someplace nice along the way. Nice to meet other Iowa Tesla owners!
Yep, that's exactly what we do. Drive as fast as we're comfortable with to as low a state of charge as we're comfortable with, then charge enough to get us to the next supercharger with a reasonable buffer. As you noted, charging times are around 15 minutes, just enough time to use the restroom and stretch our legs a bit. Using that technique, we can make our quarterly 660 mile road trip in 12 hours, which is only 30 minutes longer than it takes us in our ICE car, but because we've stretched our legs a bit more, we're not as tired as the ICE trip.
I would argue that the extra 30 minutes don't matter. You get there more refreshed. When I got done with a big ICE trip, I would just collapse at my destination for far longer than the saved 30 minutes...
Completely agree about just stopping for 10-15 mins, plug-in, use the restroom, grap a snack, then back on the road. Our recent roadtrip in the Model 3 LR was stopping every 1.5 hours more or less. We used ABetterRoutePlanner ahead of time to do this. Somehow having these pre-determined checkpoints just made the trip "easier" and seem less of a trek IMHO.
I agree. With an ICE car, stops were uncertain. We were always trying to figure out where to stop for food. If you are in a Tesla, these stops are selected for you. You might not get the best stop but the lack of planning has value too. Thanks for watching!
@@iowatesla Jim, I didn't hear you about the car prepping the battery (I forge the correct term) before the stops. With more frequent and shorter stops does it still do that... or does it need to? Thanks!!
Yes it does. As long as you pick your destination to be a supercharger, it will auto precondition.
@@iowatesla can I just pre-program the 5-6 superchargers I want to stop at along my route all at once? I can't navigate to the 2nd supercharger while driving solo to the first and driving safely.
You can now that waypoints exist. Wasn’t possible when I shot the video.
I rely a lot on voice directions. In my Toyota navigation system, when voice direction starts, the radio temporarily mutes and then turns back on again after the direction is given so that I either hear ONLY the navigator or the radio. How do I do this on my Model 3? (I usually just drive with the radio off.)
I have had a M3LR for 18 months. What is the protocol at destination chargers? I always feel guilty leaving it plugged in over night when it only needs a few hours of charging.
Range anxiety in Australia is still a big thing. Crazy but new government is finally waking up
nice tips - you need to update though - Tesla does now adjust ranges for weather (wind and temp)
Good video, especially pertinent for me -- I'm planning a trip to Orlando from Toronto, Ontario in November. It's too bad there isn't a parameter that would optimize that technique somewhere in Navigation. (Tesla, are you listening?)
Yes! That and waypoints would be huge. A Better Route Planner has a setting to prefer more stops and it will calculate a set of stops that I would make myself. Would be nice if I could do that within built in nav. Thanks for watching!
How was that trip from Toronto to Orlando Doug? I’m thinking about doing that trip December from Barrie to Marco Island FL
The seats spooked me
How do you add multiple stops to destinations as you travel in your Tesla. Say you want to travel point A to B then to point C then point D all in one trip?
Is this still true for the newer batteries where you’re supposed to charge to 100% daily?
I have model y 2023, i do city driving daily and have not set up for premium streaming and map service. Can i set up for it when I need and cancel the service when i dont drive long trips?
What about ABRP (a better route planner)?
I grew up north of Fort Dodge and because of the Navy, I now live in San Diego.
We are thinking very strongly about buying a Tesla 3 or Y long range. One of the concerns is that when I make a trip to Iowa, where do I find a charging station in Fort Dodge. There are no Tesla Charging Stations there. However, there are three EV charging stations.
Do you have a video about charging at an other than a Tesla Station?
Check out PlugShare.com. There is a CCS fast charger in Fort Dodge. You will be able to use that with a $275 adapter.
Have you tried "A Better Route Planner"?
Use it all the time for offline planning. Just did it today for a 200 mile trip away from Superchargers. Whenever there are waypoints, I use ABRP. I wish the built in nav added that. Thanks for watching!
How do you override teslas suggested route? This is more for shorter city driving. It always tries to take you on the highway but sometimes I don’t want to take the highway and want to just go on the side streets
Just ignore where it takes you and when you deviate from your path, it will update the nav as you go. For city driving, it shouldn't impact your overall range significantly. Thanks for watching!
@@iowatesla thanks for responding. I think i tried to ignore it but at every intersection its still trying to route me to the highway. I can’t be for sure now but i will try ignoring it again. Kind of trivial to me, there is avoid tolls and HOV. Why not highways. I can see long road trips you definately want to take the highway. Thanks
The planning software is biased to optimize the life of the battery. Charging less, draining further, will effectively shorten the overall life of your vehicle battery. Tesla wants you to keep in the middlin' usage of the battery, never fully charging it, never fully draining it. You get out of that zone and you could impact the overall performance of the battery.
What is the your recommendation for daily charge? 80% or 90%?
I have an automation script to set it to 60% during the week and 90% on the weekends - in case I want to drive a longer distance.
you lost me - so right before you get to the 1st SC you look for the next one (Shelby) then “end trip” and reset destination to Shelby? why not just set it at Shelby in the 1st place - why bother navigating to Altoona?
Interestingly tesla now allegedly accounts for temp and winds.
Battery always not enough, specially after 50 %
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I would rather charge longer and stop less.
That's a personal preference. Since this video was created and waypoints have been added, I think the car has gotten a little smart with regard to recommending stops.