Systems and methods for in-vehicle charging to offset a fare

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:

• in response to initiating a trip in a vehicle for a passenger as detected by the vehicle, accumulate, by monitoring progress of the trip, a trip fare as a function of traveling a route to fulfill the trip, the trip fare being an amount charged to the passenger for the vehicle transporting the passenger over the trip;
• meter, through connections to sensors within one or more charging devices in the vehicle, an electric charge generated from the one or more charging devices to identify a metered charge produced by the passenger operating the one or more charging devices during the trip, the one or more charging devices including mechanical-to-electrical generator devices driven by physical exercise of the passenger without input from an outside source;
• compute a fare offset according to at least the metered charge provided to a battery of the vehicle as produced by the physical exercise of the passenger to identify an amount by which the trip fare is to be discounted;
• and
• adjust the trip fare according to the fare offset to account for the metered provided to the battery in the vehicle during the trip.

A method of adjusting a trip fare within a vehicle, comprising:

• in response to initiating a trip in the vehicle for a passenger as detected by the vehicle, accumulating, by monitoring progress of the trip, the trip fare as a function of traveling a route to fulfill the trip, the trip fare being an amount charged to the passenger for the vehicle transporting the passenger over the trip;
• metering, by the vehicle through connections to sensors within one or more charging devices in the vehicle, an electric charge generated from the one or more charging devices to identify a metered charge produced by the passenger operating the one or more charging devices during the trip, the one or more charging devices including mechanical-to-electrical generator devices driven by physical exercise of the passenger without input from an outside source;
• computing, by the vehicle, a fare offset according to at least the metered charge provided to a battery of the vehicle as produced by the physical exercise of the passenger to identify an amount by which the trip fare is to be discounted;
• and
• adjusting the trip fare according to the fare offset to account for the metered charge provided to the battery in the vehicle during the trip.