I think a smart cruise control would be nice but I have not seen it yet. If there was a system that would allow you to say gain 15 to 20 kph (mph?) on down slopes and then not engage again until you dropped to say minus 5 kph on the upslope that might emulate what drivers do when they hyper-mile.
I do wonder about your statement that using cruise control is always less efficient. On my smart car it will not toggle between using power and generating power if the grade is such that it can coast. There is no mode where regen is actually using power, it may not be much but regen always adds electrons back to the battery. In hilly terrain where you can coast over the speed limit down and use the momentum to climb back that would preclude using the cruise control but that seems to be a driver decision and not a ‘cost’ of using it. Lawrence > On Feb 27, 2017, at 12:51, Lawrence Rhodes via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > Is there such a thing as a smart cruise control? That is a cruise control > that will adjust to terrain and draw no more than a set amount of energy. So > pick a starting speed on level ground it will keep that speed until a slight > grade and then slow to a predecided speed and then keep that speed. It will > then speed up when terrain permits. Sure you could wedge you foot but I have > found that by playing the pedal I can keep up my speed and lessen my energy > use. Sort of playing the ups and downs. Lawrence Rhodes > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20170227/fbe2cffb/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at 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 Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
