fuel-stations

Work in progress. The purpose of this app is to provide an easy to use interface for evaluating if its possible to travel between two different cities in an electric vehicle (EV). Range anxiety is a well known barrier to mass EV adoption, so something like this can be used to evaluate whether your favorite road trips are possible given your vehicles range and the current state of the EV charging network.

Run the project locally

1. Clone the repo and cd into the fuel-stations folder.

2. Set up the back end python environment and dependencies

Move to the api sub-folder

cd vehicle_network_api

create the fuel-stations environment (env)

pip3 install -r requirements.txt
cd ..

3. Set up the front end dependencies

npm install

4. Create the vehicle network files

npm run build-networks

5. Start the backend flask app

cd vehicle_network_api
source env/bin/activate
cd ..
npm run start-api

6. Start the front end dev server

npm run dev

Reference

Build containers

docker-compose build

Run containers

docker-compose up

Save pip environment

cd vehicle_network_api
pip3 freeze > requirements.txt

Get docker image size

docker images | grep fuel-stations

Current sizes fuel-stations_vehicle_network_api latest 7b9b040964ee 48 seconds ago 1.6GB fuel-stations_frontend latest f93bebffb052 7 minutes ago 2.4GB

Python virtual environment (venv)

cd vehicle_network_api

create the environment

python3 -m venv env

Activate the environment

source env/bin/activate

Save environment

pip freeze > requirements.txt