Features:
• Choose from several popular electric vehicles or run all of them in parallel to gain first hand experience with this new technology.
• Use real time GPS data while driving to model a "virtual" electric vehicle.
• Simulate charging and discharging of electric vehicles.
• Track trips and compare fuel to batteries.
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Description:
The relatively slow rate of uptake of electric cars can be attributed in part (price is of course a major factor) to misunderstandings, misinformation, and an absence of experience with such vehicles. We have developed a virtual electric vehicle – effectively a game on a mobile phone – which relates a
driver’s use of a conventional fossil fuel powered vehicle to the equivalent experience in an electric vehicle. The game is started when the phone is in the user’s conventional car, and keeps track of its travels. It simulates the battery charging and usage of the virtual electric vehicle, and reports situations such as driving range exceeded. It also is able to provide summaries, such as running costs, and for long term users, indicates the need for battery replacement. In this way, it allows the user to gain some experience of what it would be like to be using an electric vehicle, and in particular, provide them with an understanding of the implications of restricted range, charging times, and relative running costs.
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