ABRP Premium - what's the advantages?

[K6CCC]

Background: I have used A Better Route Planner on my desktop computer a few times to help plan a route, and I have it loaded on my Android. However without upgrading to premium, as far as I can tell you can't really do much with ABRP on your phone (or more importantly on the truck display) en route. I do have an OBDLink LX Bluetooth 3.0 OBD2 reader that works very well with the Lightning.

I have a 1K mile or so trip coming up in a week or so and do plan on starting the 14 free trial of ABRP prior to the trip. What capabilities and features does the OBD & ABRP actually get me and how do I use them?

And yes, unrelated to ABRP, before anyone suggests it, I have turned on a month for BlueCruise and Tesla charging...

Thanks

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[DavidS]

Background: I have used A Better Route Planner on my desktop computer a few times to help plan a route, and I have it loaded on my Android. However without upgrading to premium, as far as I can tell you can't really do much with ABRP on your phone (or more importantly on the truck display) en route. I do have an OBDLink LX Bluetooth 3.0 OBD2 reader that works very well with the Lightning.

I have a 1K mile or so trip coming up in a week or so and do plan on starting the 14 free trial of ABRP prior to the trip. What capabilities and features does the OBD & ABRP actually get me and how do I use them?

And yes, unrelated to ABRP, before anyone suggests it, I have turned on a month for BlueCruise and Tesla charging...

Thanks

The two most valuable features are the ability to view ABRP through Carplay and the use of the dongle to integrate battery information into the app. If you just using ABRP for route planning, you don’t need premium. If you want to use it for in route navigation, then it is probably worth the money. Just like a Tesla supercharger account, if you only road trip occasionally, you can spend $5 for the month and cancel when you don’t need it.

 

[Firn]

Maybe ABRP has improved but previously I was always very disappointed in its navigation abilities.

Personally I run it on my phone, using Google Maps on the screen. The only reason I use it is so I can see if I am meeting, exceeding, or falling behind the expected SOC at any given mile. Basically, at any given point in the trip it will say I should be AT XX percent, if I'm below that on the dash I may have an issue, if I'm above it then I'm probably good

 

[K6CCC]

The two most valuable features are the ability to view ABRP through Carplay and the use of the dongle to integrate battery information into the app.

Or in my cast Android Auto.

If you just using ABRP for route planning, you don’t need premium.

So far, I have barely even used it for route planning.

Just like a Tesla supercharger account, if you only road trip occasionally, you can spend $5 for the month and cancel when you don’t need it.

That is useful to know.

Personally I run it on my phone, using Google Maps on the screen. The only reason I use it is so I can see if I am meeting, exceeding, or falling behind the expected SOC at any given mile.

A good perspective.

So far I have taken about a half dozen trips that were long enough to require charging on the road. For the most part I have used a combination of PlugShare.com and the Tesla / E.A / bpPulse apps to back up what PlugShare said. I do not ever expect to need ABRP to actually determine the route I am going to take. My Dad taught me to read maps about 60 years ago and I was an active pilot back in the days before GPS so I DO KNOW how to read a map and plan a route! And to this day I like studying maps. When I have played with ABRP on the computer I mostly already knew where I was going to charge, and I did not always agree with what ABRP suggested. Maybe some of that is me not knowing what I am doing...

I figured that this upcoming trip might be a good opportunity to try out ABRP Premium and see what it really can do en route and see if it would be worth buying in the future. I also have a tentative 3K mile trip in the summer.

 

[abcut973]

I use plugshare, free ABRP and Google waze for my road trips. ABRP for planning my charging stops that I double check with plugshare before hand. I do have a dongle linked which reads the car data in realtime and update the route accordingly (speed reduction suggested or else). During the drive I have Google maps on the screen and ABRP on my phone.
I believe the premium subscription gives you traffic data and android auto display in the truck.

 

[Jim Lewis]

I went on a 3600-mile round trip from San Antonio, TX, to London, Ontario, and back by two different routes this past summer. The ABRP Premium subscription worked well for planning and driving the trip. However, for local routing between in-town locations, I used Google Maps as the routing, and the display of routing was usually better within a town than with ABRP. https://www.f150lightningforum.com/...enty-to-love-little-to-hate.30854/post-570205

 

[abcut973]

I went on a 3600-mile round trip from San Antonio, TX, to London, Ontario, and back by two different routes this past summer. The ABRP Premium subscription worked well for planning and driving the trip. However, for local routing between in-town locations, I used Google Maps as the routing, and the display of routing was usually better within a town than with ABRP. https://www.f150lightningforum.com/...enty-to-love-little-to-hate.30854/post-570205

Yeah i'm not a big fan of ABRP display.

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