Welcome to the Delivery Emissions live coding exercise for HIVED, the eco-friendly delivery company 🚚♻️
At HIVED, we will never use fossil fuels, so all our vans are electric. ⚡ But different sizes of vans will vary in their electricity consumption, and so it's better for the planet (and for our wallet! 💸) to carefully select which vans are used for which delivery routes.
We'd like you to write a program that assigns vehicles to routes, in a way that will minimise electricity consumption (in kWh).
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routes.jsonThis contains an array of different routes. Each route will have an ID and a list of stops. Each stop will have a distance from the previous stop in kilometers. -
vehicles.jsonThis contains an array of vehicles. Each vehicle will have an ID, a capacity in kWh, and an average electricity consumption in kWh/100km.
As an output, we'd like to see:
- The list of optimal vehicle-route pairs
- The total kWh required to complete all routes sequentially using the least efficient vehicle only
- The total kWh required to complete all routes in parallel using the optimal vehicle-route pairs
- 💬 See this exercise as an interactive session, ask us questions as you would if we were working together
- 👌 Aim to write code in the way you would every day - you will not be penalised if you don't complete the exercise
- ✏️ Feel free to reach out to ask for clarifications and document your assumptions
- 👌 Aim to write code in the way you would every day - we expect you to complete the exercise