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This chapter emphasizes energy management. But this skill is not practiced alone; it is practiced within the context of race management, and it is influenced by the preparations for the race. The fastest racing system wins. Therefore, to put energy management in its proper context, these topics will be touched upon as well. For an alternative view of energy management, readers may wish to study the variational calculus-based method reported in MacCready et al. (1990). A complete description of the theory of this method is beyond the mathematical scope of this book. Wright (1997) describes an energy management strategy used by a 1995 SunrayceTM team. Shimizu et al. (1998) give a description of the energy management strategy and its supporting energy management system used by the winner of the 1993 World Solar Challenge.
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Because it is presented on an energy per mile basis, the result in Fig. 13.1 is independent of the distance to be traveled.
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The off-route team cannot delay because they leave later than the race car (because of packing up the trailer) and they may have to drive twice as far as the race team. And, if the day is sunny, they will be hard pressed to keep up.
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Thacher, E. (2015). Energy Management. In: A Solar Car Primer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17494-5_13
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