EV calculator

[mpt]

I've started an EV calculator here:

EV calculator

I'm looking to add all of the EV releated calculations into a single location. Please let me know your thoughts; what features can we add to it?

[efusco]

Nice! Thanks for doing that. We need to Sticky that here for sure.

[vfx]

Coda has a great website.


CODA Automotive | Impact Calculator

[mpt]

Nice, I like that feature on savings and I could add CO2 over the lifetime of the var.

[ChargeIt!]

Coda has a great website.


CODA Automotive | Impact Calculator

Yes, NICE. I like the side-by-side "racing bars" between ICE & EV.

Looks like CODA stipulates an average 354 Wh/mile of electricity used for the 2011 Sedan in their Impact Calculator ... which is pretty reasonable considering losses during charging, etc.

[mt2]

I've started an EV calculator here:

EV calculator

I'm looking to add all of the EV releated calculations into a single location. Please let me know your thoughts; what features can we add to it?

Nice. I haven't gotten to play with it yet, but I notice the "" in the upper left corner. This is the UTF-8 BOM (byte order mark). It's such a nuisance that the web is full of information about it. Some editors allow you to save as UTF-8 without the BOM, some need to be tricked with a meta tag.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" />

If you can get the specifics on a number of cars, a drop-down list of presets would be a cool addition.

[Toonm]

Nice calculator. Maybe an overview of how many miles you drove in one year and the total number of CO2 you saved in that year can be useful.

[jcstp]

maybe ad to ice, "liters consumed per 100kilometers" (used in europe for consumptrion)

[Jaff]

Nice job Michael.

Do you know of anyone / any company that has developed a calculator to compare the cost of a Model S + estimated operating costs for the first 5 years compared with a lower priced ICE vehicle's cost + estimated operating costs for the first 5 years?

(Purpose being to show in a spreadsheet format the comparative total cost (purchase & operating costs) of (example) a $55,000 EV = the equivalent of say a (example)$35,000 ICE vehicle?)

Thanks!

[VolkerP]

Thanks a lot, Michael. That calculator can expand into an invaluable tool to dismiss anti-EV propaganda.

I understand that the CO2 calculation is lb of CO2 per mile driven?

Would like to second the suggestion by jcstp and expand it a little: like many web sites have a language selector, make the EV calculator have a unit selector. It switches between SI, and imperial/US metric.
consumption units: mpg (US) or mpg (imp) <-> liters per 100km
CO2 mass unit lbs <-> g
distance units miles <-> km