On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Bruce EVangel Parmenter <[email protected]> wrote: > Everyone is different. Some drivers want cruise control. I'm generally in the "Want" camp and with cruise control I can focus more on the traffic and less on maintaining the correct speed(s).
> > But what we plugin drivers need is a smart 'cruise control' that is > programed to be less wasteful. It would maintain a constant speed but in > a less energy demanding way. Perhaps instead of cruise control, I ought > to call it an energy-control, or smart-cruise-control. > I have though about this and think that I would want a Power Control mode where the maximum and minimum speeds can be programmed in. Not the absolute speed but the relative speeds like no more than +5 or -10. The power would be kept at the set value until the speed increased to the max or decreased to the min value at which point it would be adjusted accordingly. It might take a little programming to not get oscillations in speed but it should work equally well in an ICE or EV. -- David D. Nelson http://evalbum.com/1328 http://www.levforum.com _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
