How accurate is A Better Route Planner vs your real life road tripping experience with the Lightning?

[Wsl346]

Let me share my little first world problem with you all.

I currently drive an Audi e-tron. It's amazing vehicle with below average range, but an above average charging curve. The thing rips from 5% to 80% at 150kW in 30 minutes flat. 80% to 100% take an additional 15 minutes. With this in mind, the e-tron is fairly competitive to vehicles with much more range when it comes to road trips.

There is a drive I take once or twice a year, from Austin to Omaha. In an ICE the drive takes 13.5 hours of total travel time with gas and food breaks. ABRP calculates that this route would take a total of 14.5 hours in the e-tron, which I can confirm is more or less correct as long as your combine food/bathroom breaks with your charging stops. Now here is the "problem". With the lightning, ABRP is predicting an extra hour of travel time, coming in at 15.5 hours. At the end of the day, this is fine since what I'm losing in charging speed/efficiency, I am gaining in owning a full size pick up truck and everything that comes with that.

What I did notice is that ABRP has the lightening in "Alpha" and defaults the efficiency to 2.02mi/kWh @ 65mph. I'd be curious if those of you who have road tripped your lightning have found that it takes significantly less time than what ABRP predicts.

Thanks for the insight and look forward to joining you all soon as my build date is tomorrow (10/20)!

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[JacksonHandy]

I've noticed it is a little more conservative in my experience.

I've experienced 1.8-2.0mi/kwh at 75ish, so I upped the @65mph to more like 2.4-2.5.

5800 miles on the truck since June. 3 road trips across GA, SC.

Honestly, the on board nav has done pretty well too. Always good to double check with ABRP.

 

[Firestop]

FWIW, my ABRP calibration is 2.11 mi/kWh @65 mph, but I observe 1.8-2.0 real time on my dash depending on headwinds and +/- 400 ft elevation change when traveing ~70 mph with temps in the upper 80’s to low 90’s in my Lariat ER with 1-Pedal and Blue Cruise Hands Free.

I’m anticipating ~20% loss of efficiency (ABRP: 1.67 mpk; Dash: 1.44-1.60 mpk) as temps hit near freezing which is generally the lowest point (ave. is 40’s-50’s) most of the winter here in the Willamette Valley and ~40% loss (ABRP: 1.27 mpk; Dash: 1.08-1.20 mpk) when the temps dip into the mid-teens during the infrequent cold blast from the north

ABRP does allow you to plan your route using seasonal temps for your trip or real time data (Premium-only) feature (I use OBDLink CX), so I’ll be interested to see how accurate those projections are this winter…….

 

[sotek2345]

Agreed - ABRP is a little conservative with the Lightning. Only 1 trip so far (next planned soon), but I got to the charger with about 10% more charge than it predicted.

 

[Wsl346]

I've noticed it is a little more conservative in my experience.

I've experienced 1.8-2.0mi/kwh at 75ish, so I upped the @65mph to more like 2.4-2.5.

5800 miles on the truck since June. 3 road trips across GA, SC.

Honestly, the on board nav has done pretty well too. Always good to double check with ABRP.

How about the predicted charging times that ABRP states? Are you finding it’s accurate?

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