A Better Routeplanner on Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Which is better? 

that is a great test - and I guess I had used tronity before cause I think it is from the german engineers who had done that before for Tesla back then. I had already forgotten that cause Tesla had been sold long ago.

In the UK I tried ABRP to travel to Scotland from Northern England in May 2021. I have Apple CarPlay, so the trial with Premium meant I could evaluate it. I noted firstly that there is a choice of units, which if I not chose Metric had distance to turns, junctions in feet - so trying to consider how far away 12000 feet was is very unusual. Not even fractions of a mile, such as 0.8mile or once you get closer then stated as 300 yards etc. which is my normal experience with every other navigation app and system. This was not very useful. So I switched to Metric. The voice controls were being, as you experienced, cut off. I also had some strange commands at more complex junctions, including roundabouts. So in conclusion, I did not decide to take Premium ABRP. It is not quite ready in my view. But I use the website in long journey planning.

Thanks for doing this test, Marcus! Despite your preference for Android Auto I’m not getting an Android phone any time soon, since I’m not feeling very Googly on the whole. A Better Routeplanner for CarPlay did give audible instructions on whether to to turn right or left, but it was often wrong, so much so that I started wondering whether the programmers had confused the words left and right. When I know my way I don’t need route planning anyway, when I go on trips where I don’t know I prefer using the car’s navigation. Maybe ABRP will get better in that respect. Interesting idea to use Tronity, by the way, hadn’t heard of hat one!

Well done Marcus. Now you can start fundraising for a new mobile. That will save me my Plaid for a while. Have you seen any differences between the map and live information provided by VW compared to ABRP?

Hi Marcus, I enjoy your videos. Which OBD2 dongle do you use with ABRP? It is a WiFi or Bluetooth version (BLE version)?

does ABRP on Android Auto has the elevation change information graph like the one on the phone-app ?

I’’m sorry but both are still not up to the task. And troniity, it will keep asking for the SoC of the car at timely basis, so it’s logical that it gets “out of sync” in the motorway from time to time. Something like EV-notify is much better for that. All is n all, still a lot of work to do.