Dynamic Human-Machine Interface for Electrical vehicle design guidelines

Abstract

This article deals with a Human Machine Interface of Electric vehicles starting from the history of Electric Vehicles HMI, describes currently used system elements and provide evaluation of their advantages and disadvantages. A new concept of Dynamic HMI for Electric Vehicles is introduced to improve EV efficiency in terms of energy consumption and range distance, and consequently increase their popularity among users. This interface is capable to adapt itself to user or system needs and changes dynamically based on EV battery State of Charge or reachability of desired destination. Such implementation of HMI address one of the main reason why users still prefer conventional vehicles with internal combustion engine to EV - range anxiety phenomena. This article aims to be a guideline for a design of new concept of HMI for EV, studies user requirements and propose a methodology of system development including concept definition and user acceptance validation methodology on vehicle driving simulator.