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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Yes, I agree. If we can not read the actual range estimation of the car from the bus, then we should use 50 miles (80 km) as ideal range.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Estimated range could be something below that, using a multiplyer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>What we could do to get a better estimate, is to use the temperature, as we have the value from the car.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It should require a little testing, but we could find out a relation between temperature (both ext. and battery temp.) and the range.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Denis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De :</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ovmsdev-bounces@lists.teslaclub.hk [mailto:ovmsdev-bounces@lists.teslaclub.hk] <b>De la part de</b> Paul Churchley<br><b>Envoyé :</b> mercredi 22 janvier 2014 02:36<br><b>À :</b> OVMS Developers<br><b>Objet :</b> Re: [Ovmsdev] Ampera Range<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>In my experience the range from 100% in ideal conditions rarely exceeds 50 miles. It does occasionally and many have done well over that but for the vast majority, for the vast majority of the time, an ideal conditions range is 50 miles.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We have the SOC% so can we not simply use that to adjust the ideal range?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>My normal range varies from about 45 miles to about 30 miles depending on temp, speed etc so can we just adjust the ideal range by say, 4/5 to give typical range?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I realise that these are not scientific ways to estimate range but perhaps that is about as good as we can expect for now? We can adjust these multipliers once we have had a chance to test it out.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Could we use parameters to set a personal 100% ideal range and 100% typical range? The module could then provide a personal range based on our personal parameters and as we get better (or worse!) as EV driving so we could then adjust our personal preferences and tune our own personal range.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 22 January 2014 01:24, Mark Webb-Johnson <<a href="mailto:mark@webb-johnson.net" target="_blank">mark@webb-johnson.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Seems to be a hard-coded constant:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal>va_drive_distance_bat_max = MiFromKm(35); // initial Battery distance in km<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I think we could be a bit 'smarter' with this - particularly given the 'ideal' and 'estimated' range indicators we have.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regards, Mark.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 22 Jan, 2014, at 12:17 am, Steve Gadd <<a href="mailto:ste_gadd@hotmail.com" target="_blank">ste_gadd@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>That's odd because i've just noticed that in the past few days - the range now being displayed on my Volt, which used to be as you described, is now quite acurate?<br><br>Steve.<br><br> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 08:58:56 +0000<br>From: <a href="mailto:paul@churchley.org" target="_blank">paul@churchley.org</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:ovmsdev@lists.teslaclub.hk" target="_blank">ovmsdev@lists.teslaclub.hk</a><br>Subject: [Ovmsdev] Ampera Range<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Just a bit of feedback regarding the range displayed on the phone app for the Ampera.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>A full charge currently displays a range of about 22 miles. This is probably a bit over half the real range and well below the estimated range on the car dash.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>_______________________________________________ OvmsDev mailing list <a href="mailto:OvmsDev@lists.teslaclub.hk" target="_blank">OvmsDev@lists.teslaclub.hk</a> <a href="http://lists.teslaclub.hk/mailman/listinfo/ovmsdev" target="_blank">http://lists.teslaclub.hk/mailman/listinfo/ovmsdev</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>_______________________________________________<br>OvmsDev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OvmsDev@lists.teslaclub.hk" target="_blank">OvmsDev@lists.teslaclub.hk</a><br><a href="http://lists.teslaclub.hk/mailman/listinfo/ovmsdev" target="_blank">http://lists.teslaclub.hk/mailman/listinfo/ovmsdev</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>OvmsDev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OvmsDev@lists.teslaclub.hk">OvmsDev@lists.teslaclub.hk</a><br><a href="http://lists.teslaclub.hk/mailman/listinfo/ovmsdev" target="_blank">http://lists.teslaclub.hk/mailman/listinfo/ovmsdev</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>