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Maximising Range in a ZOE, by Nosig. When looking to maximise range in an EV, slow speeds are very good since air drag is very low. It increases exponentia[See the full post at: Maximising Range in a ZOE]
I still would love to make a blogpost for you (next week or so), this post links to itself?
I had a go at making your forum posts into a new blog post for the home page of the website (just with light editing). That way I can follow it with a couple of my own posts on related subjects. Note, you may have seen it while I was still editing it.
I hope you’re happy with it (however if you’d rather it was taken down and replaced, just let me know). Note, leaving it up doesn’t prevent us from adding longer or more detailed posts later.
It seems to work now, fine like this. Can indeed always add stuff.
I see you use several times kW/100km, and when you talk about the energy in the battery you say 22kW.
I think you mean kWh/100km and 22kWh.
This mistake is made very often in articles, but it really means something different.
Power (P) has unit W or kW.
Energy (E) has unit Wh or kWh.Here are a few extra tips on how to avoid friction braking using CanZE and the recently added “aiming bar”.
http://canze.fisch.lu/interesting-question-about-the-torque-ar/
Please note this assumes braking is needed. In my opinion coasting (basically rolling out in neutral) is even better, as it avoids the regeneration losses completely.
I’m always coasting in neutral
I tried coasting in neutral on my epic road trip to Manchester. I saw little to no improvement on range over balancing the throttle in that sweet spot where your using no power.
That said, slotting into neutral is easier, but the Zoe being so heavy will pick speed up alarmingly quick going down hill in neutral, so you need to pay attention to speedo.
It would be extremely unlikely for N-driving to perform better. After all, the net effect is exactly the same, assuming one has a steady foot. Personally, I simply find it a lot easier to do N-driving as opposed to “aiming the throttle to the 0-kW-point”.
Depending on how steep your downhills were, the driving screen (and soon the braking and consumption screen too) in CanZE has an “aiming the braking pedal to avoid friction” bar. No N can help you there. Another little tool to save a few joules. That bar’s value BTW, comes straight from the car’s computers and includes effects such as a full battery, temperature effects, low RPM, high speed, etc.
It would be nice if the setpoints for i.e. coasting friction could be user-changed in the car’s computers. One can wish….
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