[ausev] EV Calculator Script

[Lisa Korf]

Hi Nick,

This looks great, but where can I read up on some of
these variables so that I know what to enter?

Thanks!

Lisa

--- Nick Viera <eaalists at driveev.com> wrote:

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