Michael Ross via EV wrote:
You could give car owners a learning aid like I have - two batteries.
Aha... you may have something there! :-)
Remember the old VW beetle "gas gauge"? There wasn't one! Two fuel lines
went to the gas tank in two places; almost empty (about a gallong left),
and empty. There was a valve that you operated with your foot to switch
between the two.
- Fill up the tank, and flip the valve to the almost-empty position.
- Drive until the engine starts to sputter and die.
- Flip the valve to the empty position.
- Now you have 1 more gallon of gas, to get you to a gas station.
Crude as all get out. But it worked! It *forced* people to learn how to
keep track of the fuel usage in their head, and how far they could go on
that last gallon. Like learning to ride a bike, or shift a manual
transmission, you *learned* how it worked.
So, build your EV to behave in such a way as to *train* you to keep
track of energy usage, and how your driving habits are affecting it.
Don't slavishly imitate an ICE (where you have full power any time, as
long as you want, right up to the moment where it runs out of gas).
Instead, create a new paradigm. The EV behaves more like (say) an
athlete. He can run a marathon at a slow pace. Or he can run a short
sprint at a fast pace; but then has to rest before he can do it again.
--
Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several
thousand things that won't work. -- Thomas A. Edison
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Lee Hart's EV projects are at http://www.sunrise-ev.com/LeesEVs.htm
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