Apple Maps EV Routing Issues

[peterlhansen]

EV Routing is functioning for me, but thus far I haven't found to to be particularly useful. One good feature is that it shows the SoC that can be expected at the next destination. But I have problems:

• In CarPlay, the SoC display eliminates the miles to go and ETA and there appears to be no way to get them back
• EV Routing aggressively picks a charging station if it thinks one is needed, but it doesn't seem to pick the ones I would choose, and it doesn't make the choice obvious unless you go to the overview view (as opposed to the turn-by-turn directions view)
• There appears to be no way to get rid of the automatically selected charger(s), or manually select a charger
• You can bail out of using EV Routing on the phone by selecting a car other than the Mach-e (such as "other" or something like that) just before hitting "GO" which is inconvenient
• There appears to be no way to do the above when routing in CarPlay
• There doesn't even seem to be a setting for turning the EV Routing off that I can find

An example of my misadventures with EV Routing occurred as follows. I was about 100 miles from home with 130 miles showing on the GOM. I was satisfied that this was adequate to get me home. I selected my home as the destination and hit GO. Unknown to me, it had selected a rather undesirable charger off of the Interstates on local roads. On CarPlay the fact that the destination was a charger, and not my home was not obvious, so I blindly followed the turn-by-turn directions. By the time I realized what was going on and corrected it, the maneuver added a half hour to my journey. If I really wanted a charge, the was a fine Electrify America location directly off the Interstate that would be my choice (and should have been Apple's). In retrospect, I should have examined the route overview before hitting GO, but I had blind faith that it would do the right thing.

In my humble opinion, EV Routing is useless unless I can approve the automatic choices and modify them if not to my liking. And, without UI improvements as mentioned above, this is not a bit user friendly, and therefore isn't particularly useful.

Any thoughts?

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[mdolan92869]

I'd let Apple know via their Feedback. For Maps, it's https://www.apple.com/feedback/maps-ios-ipados.html and basically copy and paste your post in the feedback page. They won't know it sucks if people don't let them know (though I'm sure that Apple developers are probably letting people know, but external users/customers carry a lot more weight).

 

[Blue highway]

I nearly always check the nav route when the margins are slim. Sometimes it's perfect, other times it is important to know before committing.

In general I prefer not to use "automatic" nav systems that I can not see an overview for before accepting it.

What is the word for being sure you are right even though you have no clue? .... Hubris?... yeah Apple has that.

 

[peterlhansen]

I nearly always check the nav route when the margins are slim. Sometimes it's perfect, other times it is important to know before committing.

In general I prefer not to use "automatic" nav systems that I can not see an overview for before accepting it.

What is the word for being sure you are right even though you have no clue? .... Hubris?... yeah Apple has that.

You are absolutely right about reviewing the proposed route in the overview before pressing GO. My recent misadventure would have been avoided had I done that.

I don't subscribe to your "hubris" assertion. Apple didn't force me to skip the overview.

 

[peterlhansen]

I'd let Apple know via their Feedback. For Maps, it's https://www.apple.com/feedback/maps-ios-ipados.html and basically copy and paste your post in the feedback page. They won't know it sucks if people don't let them know (though I'm sure that Apple developers are probably letting people know, but external users/customers carry a lot more weight).

Good suggestion. I was first hoping to hear from other Mach-E users of Apple Maps/CarPlay that have used this new feature to see what they think. Some of my confusion is due to my not totally understanding the recent multi-stop capability added to Apple Maps that is used for the EV Routing feature. Much of this confusion is due to the need to perform multi-stop manipulation on the iPhone instead of the CarPlay display. I'm still in the process of sorting all of this out in my own head prior to complaining to Apple.

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