A Better Route Planner app is an incredibly handy navigation app for electric cars
With an electric car you are slightly more limited in some areas than with a petrol car. Fortunately, there are handy tools for that, such as the ABRP app. The ‘A Better Routeplanner’ app is for those with an electric car.
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A Better Route Planner – ABRP
If you own a sleek electric Audi, Tesla, Polestar or a practical Hyundai with a plug, it can sometimes be a bit more complicated to plan your route. You have a certain range with a full battery, and that can affect various factors. In addition, charging takes considerably longer than filling your fuel tank.
Google Maps is a less useful app, because it does not take into account, for example, charging stations and the like. A Better Routeplanner is a handy application that does look at this, and offers even more options. This is in fact completely adapted to the owners of an EV.
your car
Before planning a route with the device, you can indicate which car you own. This is useful for determining consumption. In addition, you can adjust the reference consumption in detailed settings, just like the chargers that you can use, how much power you still want to have and how much time you want to add to a charge, for example for finding the cable and other things together. . You can also exclude road conditions or adjust many other settings.
When planning your trip, you can add several more stops. Handy if you want to pick up your boyfriend or girlfriend. At a (intermediate) stop you can indicate that you want to leave at a certain time, add a note or indicate at your departure point how full the battery is.
Once the route has been mapped out, you will receive an overview of the journey time and the time you will spend loading. At each charging stop you will see how full you have to charge it and how much time you have lost with it. While navigating, you can also choose to choose an alternative charging station, whereby the A Better Routeplanner app will look for other charging options.
Premium
The Premium version of ABRP gives you even more options. Current traffic can be taken into account, you get current information about the availability of a charger, you can share vehicle information, you can use it on your Apple Watch and Apple CarPlay and you receive charging notifications. You can also link multiple vehicles to the app, instead of having to set it up again. You will also find all your journeys in the application and there is a weather forecast (including what impact this will have on your journey). The price for ABRP Premium is EUR 49.99 once or EUR 4.89 per month.
Android Auto and Download
Another advantage; in the beta version of ABRP you can also use support for Android Auto. You can download the application for free from the Google Play Store via the button below.
