Big disappointment

I installed ABRP for my first trip with my new electric car, a Opel e Corsa. I also chose the monthly subscription and I used Apple CarPlay

I am not sure whether it’s all user errors or inherent to the application itself, but I had lots of issues:

– The routing app is not aware of roadblocks. In fact, the first turn it suggest it was as already a closed ramp.

– At that point, the app didn’t pick up my direction change and didn’t propose an alternate route. It also took ages to resume when I met the initially proposed route later on.

– Even though live data was enabled, the app did never pick up the correct charging state from the car. Nor at the beginning of the trip nor after a longer than proposed charge at one stop, which should have triggered a complete recalculation of the proposed route. I didn’t even find an option that worked to adjust the charging state manually. This is in fact a big blocker for me.

– The map did not update after one charging stop, even though the navigation seemed to be pretty aware of where I was as it still gave me directions. Restarting the app didn’t help either.

– The user interface is only partly translated (to German). That’s not a big issue for me as I do understand English, but it might be for others

All in all, this app didn’t seem to be worth the five euro monthly subscription for me