Ford Motor Company must really trust your customers to let the edge get involved in research and development of a new vehicle! Ford invited potential buyers to participate in a special driving simulator engineers to their feedback on the in-dash screen 2012 Focus Electric. So what will it be - butterflies, solar panels or windmills? What would you like to see on your dash?
Ford invited the participants got to use a variety of potential dashboard screen to a laboratory for testing. In the laboratory environment, the participants "drove" the test vehicle over 11 miles of trail through the city streets, hills and country. Participants saw the same information that will be displayed in real-electric Focus, including two 4.2-inch full-color LCD screens flanking the speedometer in the middle. Here, information about the state of charge, distance to a point charge, the corresponding budget and expected range of the excess occur. To gauge and design concepts are understood participants helps to ensure uniform expansion MyFord Touch Screen ® interactive easy to use, and will meet the needs of owner information. MyFord Touch Focus on Electric driver provides the features and information about the range, destination charges and credits.
The team also brought in members of the Michigan Electric Auto Association, a group of electric vehicle enthusiasts, to confirm the driver information. The concepts were well received by the group, which considers information designed especially for people who are not familiar with the electric vehicle experience. The critical test is to find a way to provide drivers with enough information to win provided that the fear stems from the "range anxiety." Range anxiety is when the driver takes care of whether they will have enough energy to get your vehicle back to the charging point.
specific issue, the butterflies are in the panel display to graphically represent a range of additional benefits beyond their destination. This image, along with other information considered appropriate emotional issue. One theme that is carried out - tiles - is poorly received. It is seen as a cold, uninviting and not exciting, so it fell.
Another example is that the original Brake Coach shows the absolute amount of energy that is captured and sent back to the battery and the energy lost due to friction. Participants provided feedback that was too complex and an indicator of energy lost to friction is not well understood.
Engineers simplified the program to display only the relative proportion of energy taken from what was available to be caught. This gave the driver a result that is easily understood and shown to be more motivational. In addition, engineers had entered an alternative to the terminology used to represent what later became the charge point, the budget surplus and the screen.
For those who want a more in-depth information, the cluster's MyView feature offers greater personalization choices. Using a five-way button on the steering wheel, Focus Electric owners can configure their own customized information display in the left screen. MyView gives owners a choice of trip and budget range of views and decide whether or not to display the text associated with each display.
The system also helps drivers to optimize their use in the vehicle regenerative braking to recapture kinetic energy and send it back to the battery. Brake Coach gives the driver feedback about their performance braking - and the effect it has on its territory - once the car comes to a complete standstill after braking the case of
.Right panel in Focus Electric also uses blue butterflies to graphically represent a range of additional charges beyond their destination point - over there, the greater the range. To reinforce the message at the end of each trip screen provides distance driven, miles gained regenerative braking, energy consumed and comparative gasoline saved driving electric.
This proposed instrument panel, the display will work in cooperation with the Smartphone applications to help drivers understand how to drive in a way to use their electric učinkovitije.Focus Electric should make its appearance in selected markets in early 2012. His plans were altered Focus Electric first launched in New York and California, and by spring 2012 availability include: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Phoenix, Portland, Raleigh Durham, Richmond, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tucson and Washington, DC
It is refreshing to see a car manufacturer that is moving into new technologies that really want to get information from their customers.
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