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remarquian

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What are people's thoughts about Green Race 5 (http://www.jurassictest.ch/GR/) versus the Nissan Leaf Route planner for estimating range?

I'm planning some trips to the mountains and was wondering what people's experiences were.

From a usability and speed point of view, Green Race is far superior to the Leaf one.
 
Played with it a bit. It's in Km but it's way quicker response then the Nissan page. It lacks proper parameters for the newer leaf and the ability to account for charging stops form what I found. The Nissan system will estimate battery usage and include charge stops. It is quite clunky to use but it does a reasonable job of estimating a trip. Sadly it assumes a full charge at stops so an L2 will add ridiculous hours to the trip. You can't specify a charge time. It includes elevation calc too. If i had to use on I would suffer through the Nissan one. Unless someone knows how to edit Green Race to handle the new leaf and chart points.
 
I've modified the parameters of the Leaf 1 for 30 Kwh, a weight of 1519 kg, and an SCx of 0.66, by hitting the Details button under the Leaf and inputting the values. It saves the parameters across browser closings. I don't know how to capture B mode, in the 'recovered power' coefficient.

The other issue I have with the Nissan Route Planner, is that it has the cool feature of showing segments in the trip corresponding to battery segments. I've planned a trip up 14K ft Mt Evans from Idaho Springs, and it sez that I will not have enough juice, except in the middle of the trip goes from five battery segments straight down to zero segments, which doesn't jive with the distance 28 miles and elevation increase of under 7,000 ft.

So it has a pretty big bug.

I can live with it not incorporating charging options, as those are pretty rudimentary.
 
remarquian said:
What are people's thoughts about Green Race 5 (http://www.jurassictest.ch/GR/) versus the Nissan Leaf Route planner for estimating range?

Green Race is fairly good, especially if you know how to hack it.

Better still is https://evtripplanner.com, output a CSV and fix up the speeds to be more realistic, use better equations for energy usage, and correct the charge stops. One thing EV Trip Planner really lacks is a good database of public charging stations, and you can't add one to a trip. Also, all charging is assumed to be at L2. If you output to a CSV, you can add a charge stop to your trip, and control how long you stay there and how much charge is added.
 
Some notes about Green Race:

From my experience with multiple trip and speeds (MY2014), change the car details to:
  • SCx 0.67
    Battery: whatever USABLE capacity LeafSpy shows
    Rolling: 0.012
    Limit Max speed in long trips and leave "Automatic speed" on in main screen
    AC is around ~500W, so add it to the "Accessories Power" if you intented to use it

Green Race does the math with REAL speed, NOT speeddometer showned speed, (10% off)
 
Old thread, but has anybody had any luck using Jurrasic test/Greenrace recently?

http://www.jurassictest.ch/GR/

All I get is an error "This page can't load Google maps correctly"

When it was working I found it extremely helpful particularly in area's without any listed charging locations, being able to switch between this and google maps for RV type connections.
Have tried to contact the designers to see if there is a problem with their API key, but no response
 
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