TomTom and Renault Launch Electric Vehicle In-Dash Navigation System
September 20, 2011 By: Janice PartykaTomTom and Renault launched their first in-dash navigation system specifically designed for electric vehicles and standard option for the Fluence Z.E. The Carminat TomTom Z.E. Live receives information from the battery on its current state of charge, which is used to determine the available range of the vehicle.
This information is then visualized on the navigation screen, showing the journey against the available range and the routes to the charge stations. The information helps to plan charging and inform drivers if a trip can be completed on vehicle’s charge. The system also includes eco-routing, which provides the driver with an option to select the most energy efficient route.
Finding the right charging station information is critical to drivers. The TomTom Home application will provide users with the latest charging station list each time a user connects an SD card to his computer. The Carminat TomTom Z.E. LIVE will inform the users in real-time about the availability of charge stations enroute, allowing them to stop and "fill-up" when needed.
The Carminat TomTom Z.E. LIVE comes with LIVE Services including HD Traffic, providing drivers with dynamic routing, giving the fastest route to destinations based on the latest traffic situation.
Key features:
- Electric vehicle routing functionality, including routing to and via charge stations, and integration with battery management solution.
- Eco-routing function.
- Visualization of available range on the map and navigation display.
- Automatic updates of charge stations via TomTom Home with search functions for locating of nearest charge station, as well as those around destination or other location.
- HD Traffic, a unique combination of real-time traffic, based on a network of more than 80 million probes in Europe and dynamic routing.
- Local search.
- Weather.
- Safety camera alerts, to help the customer to drive more safely and responsibly.
- IQ Routes technology so the user always gets the best route to his destination. This technology calculates routes based on the real average speeds measured on roads.
- Advanced lane guidance shows which lane to take at junctions. On the most difficult highway intersections, realistic 3D representation of the junction keeps customers safe.
- TomTom Map Share allows the user to make corrections to his or her own map and able to benefit from thousands of corrections made by TomTom users every day.
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