UC Riverside created tool that takes into account real-time traffic information, road grade and road type cuts down on energy use <\/p>\n
By Sean Nealon on September 8, 2014 <\/p>\n
A vehicle navigation tool created at UC Riverside can cut electric vehicle energy use up to 51 percent. <\/p>\n
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) Researchers at the University of California, Riversides Bourns College of Engineering have shown that a vehicle navigation tool they created can cut electric vehicle energy use up to 51 percent. <\/p>\n
The researchers tested the eco-routing navigation system which takes into account real-time traffic information, road type and road grade on three routes around Riverside. Using road testing and computer simulations, they studied three types of navigation systems: shortest distance, least time and least energy. <\/p>\n
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Guoyuan Wu, an assistant research engineer at UC Riverside. <\/p>\n
The researchers, who are part of the Bourns College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology, outlined their findings in a report to the California Energy Commission, which paid for the study with a $95,000 grant. The researchers are: Guoyuan Wu, an assistant research engineer; Matthew Barth, the director of the research center; and Kanok Boriboonsomsin, an associate research engineer. <\/p>\n
Past research by these UC Riverside engineers has shown that the eco-routing navigation systems can potentially reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from conventional fossil fuel-powered vehicles by five percent to 15 percent. <\/p>\n
For electric vehicles, the benefits of the eco-routing navigation system go beyond energy and emission savings. The technology can cut down so-called range anxiety, meaning the driver of an electric vehicle fearing he or she wont be able to complete a trip without running out of electricity to power the cars battery. <\/p>\n
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