The chart below (click to zoom) shows the current state of play for the WSC Cruiser class, using data from the official website (although it seems to me that there are some roundoff errors in those numbers). Each team has three coloured bars: first the number of person-kilometres (black icons show occupied seats and white icons empty seats), then the energy usage (number of charges, which is 1, times battery capacity), and finally the overall score (which is the ratio of those two numbers). The black number in the final bar shows the ranking. All bars are scaled to a percentage of the maximum. It can be seen that Eindhoven has a solid lead (and they will display their own performance in detail here).
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An interesting way to display the information Tony.
When did Eindhoven reduce the size of their battery? I’m sure that they had said that their battery was 12Kwh. There’s quite a variety of battery sizes if the table is to be believed.
Anyway, as your chart and the WSC table illustrate perfectly, if anyone still thinks that this is worth watching as anything more than a parade and an adventure just look at the numbers.
I’m just going off the numbers on the WSC website. I’m not sure why Bochum and Lodz had empty seats, and we will see how much recharging goes on during the race.
I realise that Tony, I was referring to the numbers on the WSC table.
Perhaps Bochum’s empty seats were because they were limping?
FB
Could be. A sign of big trouble, then.
I’m curious how many passengers Bochum carried today. On this video (https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/916804914268971008) there seem to be at least 3 passengers in the car. It’s no strategy to travel alone. The only reason to do this are technical problems (which they had indeed).
Dietrich
Passengers only count if they’re carried all the way to the next control stop.
Bochum blew a motor controller the third time in a row. The first one was replaced with one from Mirage. It had been available after the car crashed. The second one gave up during testing in Darwin and today the third one failed. The consequence is that only two of the four engines (4×4) still run. The team started with four passengers in the car. At the repair stop (1 h) the decided to reduce as much weight as possible. From Katherine to Daly Waters there are two passengers in the blue.cruiser.
Source: http://www.hochschule-bochum.de/solarcar/rennbeteiligungen/wsc/wsc-2017/tagebuch/081017-los-gehts.html
Dietrich
Very sad to hear htis
Thanks for the very clear overview, Tony. It is indeed strange that Bochum is showing only the driver without passengers. Something is going on . . .
Bochum have had serious problems with their Tritiums.
I hope the team finds the root cause for the controller failures and get it fixed structurally.
And is it a coincidence that just now Twente posts an article (in Dutch) about their custom designed and built motor controller?
http://www.solarteam.nl/high-tech-in-the-outback-nieuwe-motor-controller-unit-mcu/
Not a coincidence at all, I would think. My understanding was that Twente’s problem at dynamic scrutineering was electronic interference between their WSC-provided GPS tracker and their clever MCU.
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