[ausev] EV Calculator Script

[Nick Viera]

Hi all,

I know that there are a handful of sites already online with scripts 
that attempt to calculate things such as range and top speed for EVs. 
However, I've been under-impressed with all the ones I've seen so far, 
because their user-interfaces tend to be counter-intuitive and all the 
results I've gotten were very to extremely inaccurate/inapplicable to 
what my EV can achieve in real life.

So I've been playing around with writing my own calculator script I call 
the Electric Vehicle Range, Acceleration, and Top Speed calculator (aka 
EV-RATS). My main goals for this calculator script is to be easy to use, 
yet powerful and as accurate as possible for such a script. For example, 
*correctly* calculating Peukert's effect for a given battery pack and 
adjusting range and run time accordingly is too important to ignore.

EV-RATS is here: http://www.driveev.com/tools/evrats/index.php

I'm interested to hear any thoughts, suggestions, etc. about it. I'm 
still working on it, so there may be issues with it that I haven't 
discovered yet. Most importantly I'd be cool to hear how close it comes 
to predicting the real-world results (range, top speed, V sag, power 
consumption, etc..) you all get from your EVs after putting your numbers in.

Thanks!

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-Nick
1988 Jeep Cherokee 4x4 EV
http://Go.DriveEV.com/
http://www.ACEAA.org/
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