Today we explored where a car’s energy goes when it comes to a stop and how electric vehicles use regenerative braking to capture some of this energy. We designed a computational model that will be part of a visual display for an electric vehicle that shows the energy captured using regenerative braking.
Often, problems must be analyzed and framed so that we can use computational tools to solve them. In order to analyze and frame this situation, we identified the objects, attributes, and relationships in the system, simplified the problem by selecting the most important features of the situation and removing unnecessary complexity, and created representations of the system to help visualize and think about the system.
