Future Phone App Will Help EV Drivers Charge with Wind

craigshieldsPosted on October 22, 2019 Posted in Electric Vehicles

Referring to the screen shot here, EV World’s Bill Moore writes: Look what I discovered! The US Wind Turbine Database. It has an API, so I am wondering if I could use Google Flutter to create an App that would indicate the best times to charge an EV from the grid. Apparently the API doesn’t include production data nor wind speed and direction, just data on the actual field and each turbine in it: Lat Lon, blade diameter, tower height, mfgr, rated capacity, project name, etc.  An App that was tied to phone’s GPS would enable a motorist, for example, to learn about the turbines as you drove from say, Omaha to Des Moines on I-80.

I’m sure real-time wind speed and direction is available somewhere, and can be overlaid onto this map.

And btw, if anyone can do it, it’s Bill.  He built and maintained iteration after iteration, using a variety of different platforms, of his website EVWorld.com starting in 1998 when it first came online; it was one of the first few thousand indexed sites at that nascent point in time.

Probably more importantly, you’ll travel far to find anyone with more dedication to environmental stewardship.

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One comment on “Future Phone App Will Help EV Drivers Charge with Wind”

1. marcopolo says:

   October 23, 2019 at 3:59 am

   Craig,

   You’ll probably not forgive me, but as an example of utterly pointless navel gazing, this would have to be a prize-winner!

   Here’s Craig, an ardent environmental advocate, (yet doesn’t own an EV, preferring to buy petrol) wondrously pondering a completely pointless app!

   Now, I don’t want to seem harsh on ol’ Bill, but this sort of dilettante nonsense is one of the reasons why EV adoption is proving so difficult.

   It also couples EV’s with wind power. This sort of cross pollination tend to alienate those potential EV owners who might be attracted to the vision of Elon Musk, but don’t necessarily wish to be associated with the politically motivated advocacy of Bill Moore.

   EV world, and Bill Moore are hang-overs from the fringe hobbyist days of EV technology.

   No doubt, ’round the cracker barrel this sort of waste of time is of immense interest, but I doubt it will sell one more EV.