The purpose of this thesis is to determine the optimal construction of a road between two points on land, that minimizes the energy consumption of electric vehicles. We will make a program in Matlab, that accepts two points as inputs, as well as many other essential information, such as the height map, car model, efficiencies... The output will be an optimal road for construction, as well as the energy consumed on it. We will also be taking into account some natural obstacles, such as the country border and very steep inclinations. We will analyse the use of a mechanism in electric vehicles, called regenerative braking, which converts kinetic energy back to usable electrical energy. We will be using different algorithms, mainly a variant of Dijkstra algorithm, called Johnson's algorithm.
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