I am increasingly frustrated by #abetterrouteplanner:
- it is very reluctant to change in its plan when conditions change, it will prefer to route you back to the original plan instead of perhaps a new plan, accepting dozens of extra kilometers
- it’s routing prefers shorter distances to following Dutch infrastructure categorization of roads, leading to way too much routing through narrow residential streets while wider roads are available very close by

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I Don’t Own an EV Yet—But Apple Maps Is Already Letting Me Down

Apple Maps is great—until you try to plan an EV road trip.

https://islandinthenet.com/ev-routing-shouldnt-be-hard/

Back home, having succesfully used #Abetterrouteplanner to get me there and back. On #grapheneos with speech output. So it works, yay.

Now I just need to find out why it is so damn quiet when speaking. I mean, I have music running and it is perfect understandable. Then #abrp says something - this reduces the volume of the music considerably (good) and then talks. While inside a city and as such slow moving, I can hear it. Not good, but good enough.
Outside, with car going > 80 km/h, its so quiet, that one can't understand anything.

No, it does not help to crank up the volume. That will either blast the music annoyingly loud - or, if I do it manually for each notification, before that is effective the notification is finished...

Settings in app are set to loudest. Meh.

Other (routing) apps do not have this problem, and yes, the central speech output settings do say "Increase volume".

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In this episode I play a song by You Am I; buying some cameras seems be helping the dog pee situation; we took the first road trip in the electric Audi; the free credits with Electrify America aren’t of much worse when they never work; I am playing lots of solitaire; I created a spreadsheet to help me make arbitrary choices; I wondered if I was being too hard on dogmatic punks until I heard Chris Shifflett make the same points as me on Turned Out A Punk; Chris Gethard on Death Sex and Money defends making art and having a day job; I migrated from Wilosophy to TOFOP via the Everyone Relax feed; the kid and I have decided to take up watching Australian Rules Football; I used to watch weird shit on ESPN in the 80s; I was knocked out by the Do You Need a Ride podcast merch store; Self-Hosted is on about the enshittification of Plex; I am not buying any more hardware from companies that want to sell me content; I don’t love Jellyfin the way I should; I don’t love Docker the way nerds think I should; I want a color Onyx Boox 10″ but I do not want to pay $500.

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Welche E-Mobility Routenplaner nutzt ihr?

Ich tendiere zu #Pump da das UI aufgeräumt und hübsch ist.

#ABetterRouteplanner bietet auch viele Optionen, aber die Benutzung ist irgendwie komisch.

#ChargeMap habe ich mir noch nicht genauer angeschaut, da man sich soforr registrieren muss.

Gibt es noch etwas, das ich übersehen habe? #emobility

If you have 30s to upvote something random, I'd appreciate the extra votes on https://abrp.upvoty.com/b/add-a-vehicle/bmw-ce-04-scooter/

The TL;DR is that if you have an #EV, #ABetterRouteplanner is the bee's knees for long-distance travel planning, taking weather, charging time, elevation changes, weight, and current state-of-charge into account.

They don't yet have a profile for my new EV #scooter which makes it not very useful for trip planning. Your upvotes will help get the #BMW #CE04 on their radar!