EV Trip Planning in Ford Navigation using Tesla Superchargers

In this video, we cover EV trip planning using A Better Route Planner and the factory Ford Navigation for the Ford Lightning and Mustang Mach-e.
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00:00 Intro
00:39 A Better Route Planning
01:14 Understanding real range in a Ford Lightning
05:50 Creating the trip in the navigation
06:38 Adding Tesla stops in the navigation
09:27 Editing navigation stops
10:08 Finding Tesla stops along the route
14:01 Reviewing trip details after planning
15:00 Saving a trip in navigation
15:38 Automatic trip planning in navigation - FAIL!
17:17 Re-centering navigation on screen
17:24 Summary
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[@PaulBarwick]

A big thank you from a new owner of a used Mach-E!

[@Thingswithwheels1]

Wow that is a lot of work! We are going to do a 2500 mile round trip in my 2023 Lightning standard range and this is super helpful thank you. I'm going to play with it based upon how you showed it working so I can plan well in advance and your tutorial gives me a great head start.

[@bowefamilyEV]

Thanks for making this video. I’ve been trying to figure out how to plan my drive to Vegas in a couple weeks. Great job but goodness we need to get this fixed and have supported Tesla locations in the GPS and Google Maps etc.

[@roydelpozo4816]

been with tesla since my 2012 model s in 2016 . The real joy was my 2016 in in 17. The nav just worked even back then. When you showed us the automatic and it was routing you to level 2 chargers i was WTF! Like you i now have a 23 lighting Lariat big battery and am loving it but the nav is such a POS. I bought it from a dealer 400 miles away and had to do my own nav all the way home as it was trying to get me to very slow chargers along the way. Thanks God i had the lectron adapter so i was able to use 2 tesla stops in route for quick top offs. Ford really needs to get its stuff together with the nav! its horrific. Now to be honest this thanksgiving we will take our f150 from OK to AL and i will be using tesla all the way there and back. Its amazing how spoiled i am having been with a tesla for the past 8 years. Just works. The only reason i got the f150 was because it can use the NACS network. Had it not i was going with a Rivian. Your video here was awesome and thank you! But it should figure this crap out by itself. Again my tesla has been doing it since 2016 ( probably earlier!) EA is just such a crap shoot if its going to work or not. Chargepoint normally works but they are so slow! Anyway... thanks for this. I tend to just input one at a time but i hope ford sees this video and in utter shame they fix it to where its smarter .

[@charlieplatt931]

Three websites, 1631 steps, waaaaay too complicated. Love my ford lightening but this makes me never want to road trip with her. Shame because she is the most comfortable vehicle! Ford needs to load these in their Navi! Thx for the tutorial just the same, sir.

[@MartinRebuilds-fz1ep]

It's coming, this video just shows you how in the interim. New tech will always have bugs when it first comes out.

[@billyyoung1630]

I mean just start driving and when you get to 50 miles left, tell google maps to find you a charger. Pretty easy!

[@pablopicaro7649]

With any luck Ford OEM will upgrade/update software to more efficiently add Tesla (and other) charging locations. THis work-arounds are way too cumbersome these days.

[@timnevitt2993]

or u can leave ur truck at home and take the harley and go haha