I never saw the attraction and/or benefits of even the free version. It is good, but there are lots of alternatives now.

 

Google integration on EV charging points getting better by the minute and the best option...it is free. Even paid for app's, don't update in real time to let you know if a charger working or not, so why pay for any of them?

 

give me google maps that can use Snax’s hub overlay and navigate to those when needed

 

This is basically my takeaway from trying out ABRP premium with the live SoC data from a bluetooth OBD dongle.

The range prediction is extremely good, especially if you let it monitor your driving efficiency for a little bit, but the premium cost is steep for that feature combined with the live info about the availability of the charger on your stop.

Everything else about it feels very compromised; the routing options are often bizarre, the live traffic data is often not accurate so you can't really rely on it and the interface is a very clunky. The UI also looks like a TomTom interface from the old days of GPS units. This might sound petty, but for £5/month you expect it to be a premium experience.

I know it's difficult to compete with the simultaneous juggernauts of Apple and Google, but both of those GPS experiences in CarPlay are significantly better to use with the exception of the battery/charging infrastructure party trick.

The even more egregious failing is that the navigation is completely disabled if you don't have premium and you connect it to a CarPlay system. So, for example, you can't use CarPlay for music/podcasts while having the navigation running in ABRP on your phone screen in a phone holder. If it detects CarPlay at all it locks down the functionality.

It's close to being a brilliant product. I posted my thoughts in another thread on this forum, but ultimately ended with the likely-impossible wish that it would be perfect if the key USP for this app would be rolled into Google Maps or Apple Maps as an add-on.

 

All of these charger apps are ‘dead men walking’.

None of them have a ‘must have’ USP such as telling users where there is a charger actually available and working nearby.

Then with Google and Apple already dominating the mapping market, the increasing proliferation of chargers, and the increasing range of cars, all combine to destroy their purpose.

Their only hope was to develop something they could sell to Google or Apple and get taken over, but as it is they are just marking time until they become the EV equivalent of MySpace and Friends Reunited.