You, sir, have just described the battery gauge Tesla uses (though the display is a tad fancier). Except they added tick marks every 10% for extra convenience.
I find the 'ignorant masses' are capable of learning. They may not (and very likely won't) fully understand what a kilowatt-hour is, but they seem pretty good at figuring out that they have 20 of them, they drove 80 miles, and now only 2 remain. Also, they cost $0.12 each (or $0.21 each, 70% of which is transmission charge, if you're unlucky enough to have my utility). Makes more sense to give the units their proper name than to make up a non-technical one simply for the sake of being non-technical. -Ben On May 9, 2014, at 1:22 PM, Lee Hart via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Peri Hartman via EV wrote: >> Well, it doesn't have to be called a kwh meter. I could be called a >> energy-remaining or, to use the term incorrectly, a power-remaining meter. > > Or a "fuel gauge". :-) > > Given the low cost of graphics displays, how about an icon that looks like a > battery? Empty (0% state of charge) has all the pixels inside it off. No > energy left; you can't drive. > > As you charge it, the pixels light up, one-by-one. The icon could easily be > 100x100, so there are 10,000 pixels in there. You could easily see the pixels > being added as you charge. The charge rate is shown by the number of pixels > being added per second. > > When the battery is full, most (but not all) of the pixels are lit. The > amount that fills indicates how much your battery can hold in its present > condition. That will change with temperature, as the pack ages, or gets > damaged, etc. > > As you drive, you can see the pixels draining out of it. Slowly, or in a mad > rush if you're driving fast! > > All done without units, so it won't confuse the "ignerunt masses". Just like > a standard gas gauge; it has no units (no gallons, no KWH). But obviously, > you could have an option that shows KWH numbers as well. > -- > Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several > thousand things that won't work. -- Thomas A. Edison > -- > Lee Hart's EV projects are at http://www.sunrise-ev.com/LeesEVs.htm > _______________________________________________ > 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) > _______________________________________________ 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)
