I feel that regen plays a major role in the overall lifetime of the scooter with respect to it’s range and the battery. Since regenerative braking is an electronically controlled mechanism, it should offer more customisability to the users.
Some of the possible settings would be to have either strong regen or normal regen. Strong regen would be defined as the scooter regenerating as soon as you let go of the throttle without the need to twist the throttle in the opposite direction, while the latter could be similar to the setup we already have going.
Alongside this, an active regen indicator (maybe showing a green glow instead of the red glow when regenerating) would be a requirement as currently, the amount regenerated cannot be quantified and thus, we can’t exactly project how useful regen braking in the real world is.
Very True,
I am completely disappointed with the nil Regen in Ather presently !!
They should provide user to control the Regen settings in % like the Ultraviolette F77 controls.
With proper strong regen setting feature in future,
we can avoid most of the braking in traffic as have longer range on travel especially in roads full of traffic.
This is probably the reason stronger regen has bot been introduced yet, to judge the stopping distance using regen will be a learned art, it will lead to accidents i feel. At the end of the day, having an option to increase the regen percentage after knowing the risks would definitely be welcome.
Hey @Ather.Team. A small bit of information that is missing from our dashboard. Which can be updated as a monthly thing ( maybe through the usage report) or as a constant thing on the dashboard.
Revolt gets a SoH state of health of the battery. Seems to be really helpful to maintain good battery usage habits.
Do look into it since Revolt is able to do it, I wonder if its not doable by our own Ather.
The most frequently used option on my app is ride stats. I would like to see it on the bottom of the app along with Profile, maps etc.
also can you integrate the forum to the app? And the grid location into same app?
I’m with you in that the app needs some rearrangement. I had suggested the same long back. Logically speaking I feel “Settings” and “Report an issue” should be in the tab with that Spanner icon. The Documents and profile/vehicle number should be in that first tab with scooter symbol. The last tab can be Ride statistics.
Regarding the forum integration in the app, it’ll come in the nedt app update we were told.
Regarding integration of Athergrid app, Ather has kept it separate as the Athergrid will also be used by non-Ather vehicles.
About regen -
found this >> https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/20/nawa-racer-e-bike-ultracapacitor/
it could be used in future Ather/e-vehicles for immediate power requirement and can be charged using regen entirely … since it will be in smaller ratio of on board battery price will be less(guess)
its unfortunate that we are not using available kinetic energy at any moment and wasting it by applying brakes.
Hope Ather is considering this !
This was one of the suggestions during the Dec’18 open house. At that point of time, the predicted range was displayed on the bike and that cause a lot of confusion for the users. This was due to the fact that the algorithm was working on very low usage data (since only a few bikes were on the road and users had just used it for 2-3 months) and the owners were confused when after overnight charging they would wake up to a predicted range of 30 or 40km!.
It was decided in that open house to flat-line the range displayed on the bike and re-visit the predicted range display at a later point. Some owners pointed out that we could have a toggle switch in the settings screen to enable/disable predicted range.
However, like a lot of other OTA wants, i guess this is also in the wish list and only @Ather.Team knows the priority for this.
Thanks! I really hope they bring that toggle switch in the settings. I’m sure it’s not that hard to enable it back in the next OTA. Or if it gets auto enabled after 1000 Kms or something…
You are right in LCD vs OLED. But the general principle of lighting is white has the full spectrum of colours and black is made of blue and purple. So the energy draw is not the exact same as white light and there is a minimal difference. Even a little difference make a difference if you are a black mode lover.
If we’re talking about more optimised displays, then OLED displays have the upper hand since they turn on/off each individual pixel as compared to LCD panels which just turn the background lighting to color black. That’s the reason behind why OLED displays have rich deeper blacks than LCD displays.
However, LCD panels do consume lesser energy on dark mode rather than in white mode, but the difference isn’t significant enough to consider the energy saved. Moreover, such dashboard displays do not draw such a significant amount of energy to adversely affect the scooter’s performance.
Someone requested this feature earlier and I am trying to re-iterate the need again.
Need ‘Service’ / ‘Guest Mode’, in addition to Eco/Ride/Sports. The Reason is that these Service guys they bury all hard-earned range performance data in no time when the scooter goes for service/repair. It takes a long time to get back the number again.
In Service mode, apart from range data, all the rest are to be captured. (say GPS, Odo)
hmm nope, LCD consumes the same amount of energy black or white, the tube still powers the back lights of the display, while yes it consumes less energy compared to OLED since in oLed individual led has to light up, so if dark mode is provided then OLED is the best option in saving energy
