"Polygon-range display enhances driver's guess-o-meter confusioncles, said O’Shea."
And in plain English? On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:47 AM, brucedp5 <bruce...@operamail.com> wrote: > > Do you really have enough juice? EOLAS-EV cloud-app gives an ~answer > % ?A better guessing guess-o-meter? % > > > http://www.plugincars.com/automakers-consider-polygons-map-show-electric-car-range-127248.html > [image] Automakers Consider Polygons on Map to Show Electric Car Range > By Alysha Webb May 16 2013 > > [image > http://www.plugincars.com/sites/default/files/polygon-app-300b.jpg > EOLAS-EV > ] > > The EOLAS-EV map-based EV range tool. > > It’s not hard for electric car drivers to imagine this situation. Your > battery’s state-of-charge is at about one-third, and you are called upon an > unexpected errand. The range-guess-o-meter on your car's dash says you can > barely make it without charging, but you know it's not reliable. Do you > really have enough juice? A new cloud-based application from Abalta > Technologies promises to give you a more definitive answer. > > Rather than having to program in your destination, EOLAS-EV displays > different colored polygons overlaid on a map. They show you how many miles > are left on your battery and where you could go on that charge. > > “Imagine you jump into an EV that has this solution,” Abalta president and > CEO Michael O’Shea told PluginCars.com. “Today, you see a number, perhaps a > battery icon that has the remaining capacity. Not very useful. We are > proposing that you see a map, a polygon, and it tells you how far you can > go. If you turn on the heater or air conditioner the polygon shrinks.” > > EOLAS-EV has been on the market for about a year, but no auto manufacturers > have committed to using it with their vehiEVLN: Polygon-range display > enhances driver's guess-o-meter confusioncles, said O’Shea. One company > will > be making a decision in the next few weeks, he added. > > A More Accurate Alogrithm > > The EOLAS-EV algorithm is tuned specifically for each electric vehicle. It > integrates real-time on-board energy consumption and regeneration data as > well as factors such as street slope and historic and real-time traffic > data > to provide more accurate mapping, said O’Shea. Charging station locations > are also shown on the map. “We have been talking to automotive > manufacturers,” he said. “They found our map very accurate.” > > There is other trip-planning software out there, such as Celadon > Applications LLC’s Road2. The user picks a route and Road2 calculates how > much charge it will require, taking into account factors such as weather > and > terrain. > > EOLAS-EV s is different because of its polygon approach, which does not > require a specific destination to be entered, said O’Shea. > > But users of the Abalta product can also enter in an address and see if > they > have enough battery charge left to get to that place, said O’Shea. He > demonstrated the EOLAS-EV for PluginCars.com at Abalta’s small office in an > office complex in Torrance, Calif., on a small screen driven by a $35 > Raspberry Pi Linux box about the size of a stack of cards. That proves > EOLAS-EV is not expensive to implement, he said. > > Abalta is not a one-trick pony company. It has been in business since 2003, > designing mobile connectivity solutions for a variety of platforms. One of > its newer products is Weblink, which allows a smart phone to become a > vehicle’s primary computing device. 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