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aesculus / EVTO-App-Feedback

A project to track bugs and ideas for the EVTO App
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Implement Optional Preheat Energy Calc #534

Closed aesculus closed 6 years ago

aesculus commented 6 years ago

When a trip starts without the car plugged in when the weather is cold outside, and especially if the user has heating requirements, the car needs to precondition. This requires extra energy above and beyond the requirements for the trip leg. This energy is either taken from the battery or from the charger. When it is taken from the battery this pre conditioning energy basically reduces the range or battery percent on the first leg proportional to how much energy is required.

Without this feature EVTO will underestimate the required energy on the first leg and hence the charging requirements and perhaps even the first charger chosen may not be the same.

EVTO needs to have an optional way of allowing for this energy to be calculated on the first leg of any segment that does not have a charger.

aesculus commented 6 years ago

This has been added in V2.1 as a battery heating option for each trip. If the user selects battery heating and has no origin charger, EVTO will estimate the requirements for battery heating. It will also estimate the requirements for enroute battery heating too.