First longer trip with Tesla charging

[stevenschwartz]

We've had our MME for about 1.5 years, but mainly drive around town or at most 250 mile round trips (so 1 charge.) Over the last few days we drove from Tucson to LA (1100 miles RT.) Comments about charging and routing:

Charging: We charged a total of 8 times (one was a top up) of the 8, 6 were at Tesla chargers. They all worked like a charm. Good speed and almost never a broken one (unlike electrify america.) At EA locations there might be 4 with 2 broken and a line of 5 people waiting to charge. At Tesla the number of chargers varied from 8 to 32 (!) with essentially all working. Never waited once for a charger. I get that Tesla chargers are there to make the car appealing, but having them available to us is an absolute game changer. This would have been a far far more stressful less enjoyable drive without.

Routing: Mainly relied on Google maps. Compatible Tesla and all other chargers populated routes with no problem. Did try ABRP and it was a disaster in one particular way. I thought I set it up correctly, but when we had to redo a route while driving it went crazy. It also never seems to get the correct SOC info from the car or correctly communicate with the small drivers screen. I'm sure one can make it work, but given the fact that Google worked flawlessly with no effort I do not plan on using that app again, and will cancel.

MINI RANT: Ford should be ashamed of itself that the native routing app cannot find compatible Tesla chargers. When my free trial to the Ford routing ends, I'm not renewing.

Other comments: The car performed flawlessly. Miles per electron drops precipitously when you are driving at 75, but that is not a surprise - same thing with an ICE. The blue cruise remains wonderful. I used it about 75% of the time, and it is simply great (so if their team can manage such a complex development how about the routing (OK, enough of that.))

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[kens]

MINI RANT: Ford should be ashamed of itself that the native routing app cannot find compatible Tesla chargers. When my free trial to the Ford routing ends, I'm not renewing.

The blue cruise remains wonderful. I used it about 75% of the time, and it is simply great

I've had all good experiences with Tesla chargers, they're great. Some Tesla chargers are now recognized by the native Ford nav, but they don't show in the charger list, you have to route directly. They're supposed to be supported in full soon.

I have no need for the connected services and hadn't planned to renew. Except that I live in a seasonally cold area and need the ability to precondition for charging. Someone suggested in another thread today that Ford locked preconditioning behind the connected services paywall, which if so is atrocious. I've seen mentioned before that the native nav will lose all updates and revert to factory setup if connected services are discontinued, so that would kill of the new Tesla charger routing.

Bluecruise and the ADAS in general is awesome. I'm loving it, and it handles the majority of my driving everywhere.

 

[AhardFSU]

Ford put out a statement in 2024 that said that the compatible Tesla Superchargers would be added to the in-car navigation system by the end of 2024. You can find that quote from Ford in various EV and car related publications.

For whatever reason they never added the compatible Superchargers to the in-car navigation system at the end of 2024.

Based on some recent comments, it feels to me like Ford wanted to align the addition of the superchargers to the nav with the “premium connected services” program as it relates to preconditioning to those chargers.

My 3 year free nav expired this month morning. I’m not paying for the navigation service.

 

[2FlyMache]

Do you have an OBD dongle for your ABRP app? If not, it doesn't show SOC, you have to manually tell it what it is from the start. I've used it with the OBD and it works very well. Now that CarPlay can route to Tesla, I may only use that

 

[stevenschwartz]

Android auto works wonderfully with the car and Google. I have a year and a half of continued free so no decision needed now, but I'm certainly not fussing with another dongle.

 

[MacherAWD]

I have no need for the connected services and hadn't planned to renew. Except that I live in a seasonally cold area and need the ability to precondition for charging. Someone suggested in another thread today that Ford locked preconditioning behind the connected services paywall, which if so is atrocious. I've seen mentioned before that the native nav will lose all updates and revert to factory setup if connected services are discontinued, so that would kill of the new Tesla charger routing.

That is now available with Android Auto, ford has not locked it down.

 

[kens]

That is now available with Android Auto, ford has not locked it down.

There should not be a requirement to buy an extra device to access preconditioning either.

 

[ocdxfv]

Never waited once for a charger. I get that Tesla chargers are there to make the car appealing, but having them available to us is an absolute game changer. This would have been a far far more stressful less enjoyable drive without.

Just got home from a similar trip (OC to Phoenix, on to Prescott, and back home). The only non Tesla charge was in Prescott, where there is only EA. Quartzite is the real game changer in my opinion. 84 stalls!

 

[Deleted member 26087]

We've had our MME for about 1.5 years, but mainly drive around town or at most 250 mile round trips (so 1 charge.) Over the last few days we drove from Tucson to LA (1100 miles RT.) Comments about charging and routing:

Charging: We charged a total of 8 times (one was a top up) of the 8, 6 were at Tesla chargers. They all worked like a charm. Good speed and almost never a broken one (unlike electrify america.) At EA locations there might be 4 with 2 broken and a line of 5 people waiting to charge. At Tesla the number of chargers varied from 8 to 32 (!) with essentially all working. Never waited once for a charger. I get that Tesla chargers are there to make the car appealing, but having them available to us is an absolute game changer. This would have been a far far more stressful less enjoyable drive without.

Routing: Mainly relied on Google maps. Compatible Tesla and all other chargers populated routes with no problem. Did try ABRP and it was a disaster in one particular way. I thought I set it up correctly, but when we had to redo a route while driving it went crazy. It also never seems to get the correct SOC info from the car or correctly communicate with the small drivers screen. I'm sure one can make it work, but given the fact that Google worked flawlessly with no effort I do not plan on using that app again, and will cancel.

MINI RANT: Ford should be ashamed of itself that the native routing app cannot find compatible Tesla chargers. When my free trial to the Ford routing ends, I'm not renewing.

Other comments: The car performed flawlessly. Miles per electron drops precipitously when you are driving at 75, but that is not a surprise - same thing with an ICE. The blue cruise remains wonderful. I used it about 75% of the time, and it is simply great (so if their team can manage such a complex development how about the routing (OK, enough of that.))

Yep, I feel your pain. This is my first and last Ford Electric product. I do not use the Mach-E navigation as it is horrible. I use ABRP. I tried Google maps but apparently it does not show electric chargers. Hard to get people to by something that no one seems to want to maintain.

 

[stevenschwartz]

JiminCO, Not sure if understand my pain that you feel or why you think I'm unhappy with the product. We love the car, Google maps worked perfectly for us, and overall the experience of our trip was great. I'm a bit annoyed that the Ford routing product does not include most Tesla chargers, but since I have a free highly effective workaround, who cares?

 

[MME Farmer]

We've had our MME for about 1.5 years, but mainly drive around town or at most 250 mile round trips (so 1 charge.) Over the last few days we drove from Tucson to LA (1100 miles RT.) Comments about charging and routing:

Charging: We charged a total of 8 times (one was a top up) of the 8, 6 were at Tesla chargers. They all worked like a charm. Good speed and almost never a broken one (unlike electrify america.) At EA locations there might be 4 with 2 broken and a line of 5 people waiting to charge. At Tesla the number of chargers varied from 8 to 32 (!) with essentially all working. Never waited once for a charger. I get that Tesla chargers are there to make the car appealing, but having them available to us is an absolute game changer. This would have been a far far more stressful less enjoyable drive without.

Routing: Mainly relied on Google maps. Compatible Tesla and all other chargers populated routes with no problem. Did try ABRP and it was a disaster in one particular way. I thought I set it up correctly, but when we had to redo a route while driving it went crazy. It also never seems to get the correct SOC info from the car or correctly communicate with the small drivers screen. I'm sure one can make it work, but given the fact that Google worked flawlessly with no effort I do not plan on using that app again, and will cancel.

MINI RANT: Ford should be ashamed of itself that the native routing app cannot find compatible Tesla chargers. When my free trial to the Ford routing ends, I'm not renewing.

Other comments: The car performed flawlessly. Miles per electron drops precipitously when you are driving at 75, but that is not a surprise - same thing with an ICE. The blue cruise remains wonderful. I used it about 75% of the time, and it is simply great (so if their team can manage such a complex development how about the routing (OK, enough of that.))

One more day of a 3000 plus mile trip, the tesla chargers have been a game changer for us. So far I haven't had to park in a way that bothered anyone. One place had I think 10 stalls full and 3 teslas waiting, haven't had that issue ever before, thankfully had a plan B. What a car!!

 

[Ahlarict]

MINI RANT: Ford should be ashamed of itself that the native routing app cannot find compatible Tesla chargers. When my free trial to the Ford routing ends, I'm not renewing.

If your software is up to date, this process should enable native support for finding Tesla chargers:

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