Method and apparatus for forecasting of electric vehicle energy absorption

The system includes one or more processors that are configured to receive a route and take variables that affect the performance experience. The one or more processor (s) are further designed to break up the route into a series of segments. The processors are adapted to look up a predetermined power usage estimation value for each segment based on the recorded variables. Also, the processors are adapted to show the estimated total power usage of the route on the basis of accumulated power usage estimates for each segment.