Contour Data Acquisition System for Electric Vehicle Distance Estimation Method

The conventional distance estimation system only uses a constant speed and a constant level of road elevation to estimate the driving mileage for a vehicle. This technique leads to a low accuracy. In the current project, a new estimation technique namely; the Contour Positioning System (CPS) for an electric vehicle has been proposed. The CPS has a better estimation on the electric vehicle battery usage because of the consideration of road elevation, regenerative energy etc. In order to perform the CPS calculation, the elevation profile of the selected destination must be known. In this paper, the technique to extract the elevation profile i.e. latitude, longitude and altitude has been performed and evaluated using Google Maps or Google Earth^Ò. This method enables the user to obtain the road information and compute the amount of energy needed to reach the said destination.