Navigation
The I-Pace navigation system up to the model year 2021 is provided by Here Technologies. As a stand-alone nav’ system it’s not bad. It has live traffic enabled and most of the time routes fairly well to avoid traffic. We have been on a few magical mystery tours down single-track roads to avoid some small amount of traffic that’s been a common trait of sat nav systems for years. The main issue with the I-Pace system is the additions to the system to make it EV specific. Firstly, the number of Charging stations stored in the map (even though I keep it up to date) is woefully low. Also and as part of that issue, when you are running low on charge it will add a charger to your route. Without fail, that has not been a) convenient or b) a charging network I would use. To compound that issue, when a charger has been auto-added to the route, there is no way to delete it. I was once driving to the largest charging hub in the UK (which had been open for more than 6 months), with a planned SOC at the destination of 5% and when I was only 15 miles away, the sat nav auto-added a charger that was 15 miles behind me and one that wasn’t accessible due to time of day and it being located at a Vauxhall Dealership. No matter what I did, it would not navigate straight to the charging hub. I have covered the next point in a previous blog but it’s worth mentioning again. The State of Charge at destination used to under-read by a few %. After a version update of the infotainment and/or the Battery Management System, the State of Charge at Destination is now over ambitious by up to 25%, rendering it useless for planning.
So, Tip: Don’t rely on the SOC at destination until/unless this issue is resolved.
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