u/nathatt0422

I've had an Emporia Classic for roughly 5 months and it has been flawless. Until last night. yesterday I had a long day trip to make and when I returned the car (24 Blazer EV) was down to 25% at 2:30 in the afternoon. Normally I just charge midnight to 6:00 AM (low electricity cost) but yesterday I manually set the Emporia to start around 3:00 in the afternoon hoping to charge from 3:00-4:00 (when electricity goes to the highest rate). I had to set the app to allow the charge and then also set the car to charge (something about the schedule there, which should be fixed). I was able to do this and I stopped the charging in the app as well at 4:00.

So, the problem then is that it did not charge at all last night. In the app it showed as paused but I don't see/know how to just have it go back to the schedule (which has worked for months).

Has anyone run in to this? How do I exit manual mode?

I am currently charging again manually and at roughly 4x the cost so that I will have some charge for the day.

I am still new to EVs and thus to ABRP. The tool is great and I really appreciate what it adds to planning long trips. (apologies if this has been covered, please redirect me if so)

My question is this:

I have setup Ionna as a preferred network. They work well for me. Which network one specifies is irrelevant though.

I plan a trip from Kansas City (east edge) to Dallas. We've made a similar trip for many years and so I was surprised that it chose the I-35 route as best but it had nice charging stops.

Today I decided to play with ABRP to see how much time would be added to go our typical route = I-49 to I-44 to Hwy 75. Turns out it saves about 30 minutes on an 8 hr drive. It occurred to me then that my preference for Ionna had caused ABRP to choose a longer route.

Oh yeah, I had a question...

Is there any way to blend my preference for a charging network with my overriding preference to get there more quickly?

I assume the answer is, remove all network preferences.

I would like to at least see the shorter route presented along side the route that stays with Ionna as much as possible.