Navigation system help - how do you map out round trips with charging stops?

[WSea]

I was pretty shocked and annoyed with Rivian’s navigation on my 500 mile trip back home today. This was my first big trip in 6 months of ownership (well technically 4 since the first 2 months were in the the shop)

First, it couldn’t calculate a route to my destination. It could only plot one course and tell me that I wouldn’t be able to charge (and I know I can make it because that’s the way I came). Apple was smart enough to offer 3 routes home.

The Rivian app constantly would target me charging at EA stations arriving with ~10% battery. Even when there were multiple options on the same route. No way I’m letting myself get that low. One little problem would leave me completely stranded.

Especially given the piss poor integration with EA.I’m unaware whose fault this is, but I stressed for an hour that all 4 EA slots at the dest charger were IN USE only to find they were just UNKNOWN status. The map hides any UNKNOWN status if you select Availability.

you have to zoom in super deep to find the EA chargers, then the map decides to re-orient to cardinal directions and spin the world around on you

It was a hassle. ABRP saved the day, but having to have multiple devices is amateur hour.

Why the F can’t I select a charging station on the route and tell it to re-route to there!? it’ll show the charger with an icon large enough to select, but won’t let you select it. To select it you have to end the trip, let the map zoom in, two finger tap 15 times to zoom out, wait for the entire F-ing map to spin around, select, then Start - ALL WHILE DRIVING!

Garbage!

While I somewhat agree and hope for future improvements I’ve been generally happy with the nav. it does require some common sense driver overrides at times. Think google maps sending drivers over a mountain pass on forest service road in winter.

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[NineElectrics]

I was pretty shocked and annoyed with Rivian’s navigation on my 500 mile trip back home today.
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Garbage!

I couldn’t agree more. I am, at this moment, trying to plot a rather complicated multi-waypoint trip. The waypoints matter, because otherwise Rivian’s charging sequence would leave me stranded in the wilderness without enough charge to get to the next leg. And I can’t. Even if I could, I wouldn’t trust Rivian turn-by-turn to do the right thing. So now I’m installing a phone mount for my super-sophisticated car of the future with the superficial software that, deep down, works like shit.

 

[azbill]

I figured out how to do this on my recent 2000 mile trip. We went to Tahoe for a week, and while there we did a day trip to Yosemite. There was one EA station in Bridgeport that we could use. So I determined that when I arrived in Yosemite, I would need 45% to get back to Bridgeport. I entered that in the trip planner, destination Yosemite Valley Village with 45%. Sent that to the truck and it gave me the stop at EA on the way there, that would leave me at 45% when I arrived at Yosemite. It worked. On the return I made it back to the same EACharger and then got back to Tahoe. The round trip was 250 miles and I was leaving Tahoe at about 80%.

It does require some thinking and knowledge about your range, but it is doable. My Mach E could have planned the entire round trip, all at once. It has a real trip planner, where you can add stops.

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