When the piston icon is off, keep the HyBall inside the white circle to glide with little or no battery usage.
Once a minute, a glide score histogram will appear on the screen, evaluating your performance.
Showing posts with label Glide Assistant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Glide Assistant. Show all posts
2018/10/09
Using HyBall during glide
After an acceleration, you can turn off the petrol engine and use HyBall to perform a perfect glide.
When the piston icon is off, keep the HyBall inside the white circle to glide with little or no battery usage.
Once a minute, a glide score histogram will appear on the screen, evaluating your performance.
When the piston icon is off, keep the HyBall inside the white circle to glide with little or no battery usage.
Once a minute, a glide score histogram will appear on the screen, evaluating your performance.
2018/10/07
HyBall Tutorial
The HyBall gives suggestions on accelerator pedal usage.
Try to keep the ball inside the white circle, since this is the position that usually gives the best results in fuel efficiency.
If the HyBall is over the white circle, release accelerator pedal and the ball will go down.
If the HyBall is below the white circle, you can press the accelerator pedal a little more.
Note:
A good adapter and a fast phone are essential for good results: an OBDLink adapter is mandatory for 4th generation HSD cars.
It's strongly advised to use a HUD or HUD-like placement for the phone, so you can keep your eyes on the road at all time.
Disclaimer:
Suggestions provided by Hybrid Assistant, during the usage of the HyBall feature, can not account for road conditions: the driver is the only responsible for evaluating and applying them only if they do not pose any danger to driver, passengers and surrounding cars and people.
Try to keep the ball inside the white circle, since this is the position that usually gives the best results in fuel efficiency.
If the HyBall is over the white circle, release accelerator pedal and the ball will go down.
If the HyBall is below the white circle, you can press the accelerator pedal a little more.
Note:
A good adapter and a fast phone are essential for good results: an OBDLink adapter is mandatory for 4th generation HSD cars.
It's strongly advised to use a HUD or HUD-like placement for the phone, so you can keep your eyes on the road at all time.
Disclaimer:
Suggestions provided by Hybrid Assistant, during the usage of the HyBall feature, can not account for road conditions: the driver is the only responsible for evaluating and applying them only if they do not pose any danger to driver, passengers and surrounding cars and people.
2018/10/04
HyBall
The new release of Hybrid Assistant introduces the HyBall.
This gauge is made of a colored ball and a white circle.
You can control the position of the floating ball using the accelerator pedal: pushing the pedal will cause the ball to float upward, while easing the pressure will bring the ball lower.
The HyBall will help you getting the most from your car in different scenarios:
Note:
A good adapter and a fast phone are essential for good results: an OBDLink adapter is mandatory for 4th generation HSD cars.
It's strongly advised to use a HUD or HUD-like placement for the phone, so you can keep your eyes on the road at all time.
Disclaimer:
Suggestions provided by Hybrid Assistant, during the usage of the HyBall feature, can not account for road conditions: the driver is the only responsible for evaluating and applying them only if they do not pose any danger to driver, passengers and surrounding cars and people.
This gauge is made of a colored ball and a white circle.
You can control the position of the floating ball using the accelerator pedal: pushing the pedal will cause the ball to float upward, while easing the pressure will bring the ball lower.
The HyBall will help you getting the most from your car in different scenarios:
- During the S1 phase, the HyBall allows to calibrate power to move the car without draining the HV battery.
Keep the ball green and in the lower half.
If the ball goes over the white circle, HV battery will be used for moving.
- While in EV mode, the HyBall guides the driver to achieve a perfect glide.
Keep the ball in the center.
If the ball is green, you'll have a good glide score, that will be displayed in the glide chart panel.
- When the engine is running, the HyBall helps reaching heretical mode.
When the ball is in the center, you're in heretical mode.
Green color will turn lighter as the condition will get more stable.
- When an idle check is pending, the HyBall will advice the driver to release the accelerator pedal, to allow the car to perform the check.
- During a brake, the ball position will be linked to the brake pedal.
Pushing the pedal will push ball up, as with the accelerator pedal.
Ball color is green when regenerative braking is in effect and position is relative to energy recovery.
Try to keep the ball in the center for maximum energy harvesting.
Note:
A good adapter and a fast phone are essential for good results: an OBDLink adapter is mandatory for 4th generation HSD cars.
It's strongly advised to use a HUD or HUD-like placement for the phone, so you can keep your eyes on the road at all time.
Disclaimer:
Suggestions provided by Hybrid Assistant, during the usage of the HyBall feature, can not account for road conditions: the driver is the only responsible for evaluating and applying them only if they do not pose any danger to driver, passengers and surrounding cars and people.
2018/06/21
Glide Evaluation
Historically, glide has been defined as the condition of zero power to the wheel: this is the condition displayed natively by your car HSI meter or power arrows representation on the dashboard screen.
This condition, though, causes a little drainage of the HV battery.
The Glide Assistant feature of Hybrid Assistant, instead, evaluates glide based on zero power to the HV battery, allowing true power-neutral glides.
It's possible to restore the old style evaluation method using the option in the settings screen.
This condition, though, causes a little drainage of the HV battery.
The Glide Assistant feature of Hybrid Assistant, instead, evaluates glide based on zero power to the HV battery, allowing true power-neutral glides.
It's possible to restore the old style evaluation method using the option in the settings screen.
2018/06/16
End of Trip Summary
When enabled in the settings screen, a new End-of-Trip summary is displayed and captured as a screenshot on your phone.
Among other information, the new Glide index is also displayed.
Among other information, the new Glide index is also displayed.
Glide Assistant
Introducing the new Glide Assistant feature of Hybrid Assistant!
Glide is the desirable state where the car is running with zero power applied.
A correct alternation of Glide and usage of the petrol engine will lead to good fuel usage.
Hybrid Assistant will help you achieving a good glide, providing guidance about the accelerator pedal usage.
Hybrid Assistant assigns a score to glides, called Glide Index, ranging from 0 to 100.
100 is assigned when the glide is perfectly balanced, while lower scores accounts for how far the perfect glide point is.
The Glide Index can be used to evaluate the current glide condition, as well as giving an overall score for the whole trip, by averaging the instant values over time.
An hypothetical trip, where the car is always in perfect glide, would have a score of 100; while every deviation from glide, during the trip, would reduce that score.
Note that the final score is unaffected by distance, and glide is evaluated only if speed is greater than 20 km/h.
Parking time is also not accounted.
The Glide Assistant panel can be enabled in the Settings screen, or by tapping the EV car icon two times.
The Glide Assistant panel is composed by 2 main elements:
On the left there's a floating colored ball, while the right side contains a chart.
You can control the position of the floating ball using the accelerator pedal: keeping it inside the white circle will result in higher scores.
Every vertical bar on the chart represent the glide score for each of the previous minute.
A fuel pump icon under each bar provides a feedback about average fuel usage trend:
Red - average fuel usage has been worse than the previous minute
Yellow - average fuel usage was just the same as the previous minute
Green - average fuel usage was better that before
A continuous line plots the average index over the whole trip.
Note:
Achieving and maintaining glide requires fast reaction times, so a good adapter and a fast phone are essential for good results.
It's strongly advised to use a HUD or HUD-like placement for the phone, so you can keep your eyes on the road at all time.
Disclaimer:
Suggestions provided by Hybrid Assistant, during the usage of the Glide Assistant feature, can not account for road conditions: the driver is the only responsible for evaluating and applying them only if they do not pose any danger to driver, passengers and surrounding cars and people.
Glide is the desirable state where the car is running with zero power applied.
A correct alternation of Glide and usage of the petrol engine will lead to good fuel usage.
Hybrid Assistant will help you achieving a good glide, providing guidance about the accelerator pedal usage.
Hybrid Assistant assigns a score to glides, called Glide Index, ranging from 0 to 100.
100 is assigned when the glide is perfectly balanced, while lower scores accounts for how far the perfect glide point is.
The Glide Index can be used to evaluate the current glide condition, as well as giving an overall score for the whole trip, by averaging the instant values over time.
An hypothetical trip, where the car is always in perfect glide, would have a score of 100; while every deviation from glide, during the trip, would reduce that score.
Note that the final score is unaffected by distance, and glide is evaluated only if speed is greater than 20 km/h.
Parking time is also not accounted.
The Glide Assistant panel can be enabled in the Settings screen, or by tapping the EV car icon two times.
The Glide Assistant panel is composed by 2 main elements:
On the left there's a floating colored ball, while the right side contains a chart.
You can control the position of the floating ball using the accelerator pedal: keeping it inside the white circle will result in higher scores.
Every vertical bar on the chart represent the glide score for each of the previous minute.
A fuel pump icon under each bar provides a feedback about average fuel usage trend:
Red - average fuel usage has been worse than the previous minute
Yellow - average fuel usage was just the same as the previous minute
Green - average fuel usage was better that before
A continuous line plots the average index over the whole trip.
Note:
Achieving and maintaining glide requires fast reaction times, so a good adapter and a fast phone are essential for good results.
It's strongly advised to use a HUD or HUD-like placement for the phone, so you can keep your eyes on the road at all time.
Disclaimer:
Suggestions provided by Hybrid Assistant, during the usage of the Glide Assistant feature, can not account for road conditions: the driver is the only responsible for evaluating and applying them only if they do not pose any danger to driver, passengers and surrounding cars and people.
Acknowledgements:
Glide Assistant is based on a previous work by Prof. Thomas Franke, Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics at Lübeck University.
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