Tesla Navigation - How To; Tips & Tricks for Fast Road Trips

In this video I cover how the Tesla Navigation works for road trips and I give you some tips and tricks for getting to your destination faster.
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[johnsteele]

I agree 100%. Been doing it this way for five years. It's slightly faster and much more relaxing.

[astro_josh]

On tesla navigation (as well as google maps etc) you can add stops to your trip. This is REALLY GOOD for choosing the superchargers you actually want to use if you plan ahead. The car will know you want to charge there and will let you know for how long to get to the next one you put in. It’s super convenient for this purpose so you don’t have to remember which charger is next and put that in your nav at every stop!!

It’s also great if you don’t have a charger at your destination and you want to make sure you have enough battery to return. Just navigate to your return location, then add a stop as your destination and it’ll make sure you have enough to get there and back!

Super underrated feature

[russellthorburn]

I just finished my first road trip in my M3SR+ and I employed the same technique that you talked about. It was simple and fast. We had no range anxiety and the car was indeed ready well before we were ready.

Additionally, we couldn't have done it faster in an ICE vehicle since all the charging stops we made were stops we would have made anyway regardless of what vehicle we were driving.

Lastly, I calculated a cost comparison and driving the M3 came out to less than 1/4 of what it would have cost to drive my ICE. Ya, I love my M3SPR.

[RNbiker]

Thanks for the nice video! I drive a 2019 Chevy Bolt, and it has similar issues around the charging curve. In the 20 months I've had it I've slowly gotten less prone to range anxiety with experience.

[beelust]

Taking a road trip and this video was awesome for me. 😊 thanks

[JayaLove]

This was suuuper helpful! There are phone apps that can be helpful but it’s so much easier to integrate with the actual nav on the car. I love this just choosing a closer charger on the route.

[MrBIGBRY]

Thanks for your videos! Love them! Keep it up! Loved the video when you debunked the myths about EVs

[Jjm]

Hope to try it one day. Thanks for the supercharging tip.

[jackolantern]

Completely agree about just stopping for 10-15 mins, plug-in, use the restroom, grap a snack, then back on the road. Our recent roadtrip in the Model 3 LR was stopping every 1.5 hours more or less. We used ABetterRoutePlanner ahead of time to do this. Somehow having these pre-determined checkpoints just made the trip "easier" and seem less of a trek IMHO.

[JenniferDuron]

I am trying to figure out how to do a round trip. For instance, I have a day trip planned and of course the car will make it there without needing to stop and charge, but I will not have enough to make it back. Is there a way to plan a short round trip using the nav system?

[dougfrith]

Good video, especially pertinent for me -- I'm planning a trip to Orlando from Toronto, Ontario in November. It's too bad there isn't a parameter that would optimize that technique somewhere in Navigation. (Tesla, are you listening?)

[joseargonza]

I rely a lot on voice directions. In my Toyota navigation system, when voice direction starts, the radio temporarily mutes and then turns back on again after the direction is given so that I either hear ONLY the navigator or the radio. How do I do this on my Model 3? (I usually just drive with the radio off.)

[melina-s-rn]

Is this still true for the newer batteries where you’re supposed to charge to 100% daily?

[khinekhine]

I have model y 2023, i do city driving daily and have not set up for premium streaming and map service. Can i set up for it when I need and cancel the service when i dont drive long trips?

[phylliskhare]

Interesting but I do my road trips exactly the opposite way. I prefer to fill up to at least 85% or more before going to my next charging station. I like to have a good solid two or more hours between stopping and have 25% when I do stop. I just did from Iowa to Florida and back and that process worked out great. I'd much prefer to stay longer at a stopping place, especially if it's at a whole foods or someplace nice along the way. Nice to meet other Iowa Tesla owners!

[BrianThorstad]

What about ABRP (a better route planner)?

[rickmasters]

How do you add multiple stops to destinations as you travel in your Tesla. Say you want to travel point A to B then to point C then point D all in one trip?

[tommckinney]

Yep, that's exactly what we do. Drive as fast as we're comfortable with to as low a state of charge as we're comfortable with, then charge enough to get us to the next supercharger with a reasonable buffer. As you noted, charging times are around 15 minutes, just enough time to use the restroom and stretch our legs a bit. Using that technique, we can make our quarterly 660 mile road trip in 12 hours, which is only 30 minutes longer than it takes us in our ICE car, but because we've stretched our legs a bit more, we're not as tired as the ICE trip.

[clausmygind]

I know this video is two years old. It would have been nice if you ended with how much time you actually saved using your method. Also you picked your first stop based on a station you knew was there. A little more detail on how to find these stations. Also as a new Tesla owner who would like to do a long trip I can’t figure out how to find superchargers like you showed further along the route, the map only shows chargers near or reachable from my current location. Is there some trip planning technique I can use to plan stops along the entire trip like what the Tesla navigation does for you? An updated video would be appreciated thanks

[davidhite]

Have you tried "A Better Route Planner"?