Systems and methods for proactive electronic vehicle charging
AssigneeAllstate Insurance Company
InventorPhilip Peter Ramirez
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Abstract
Implementations claimed and described herein provide systems and methods for generating instructions for a mobile electric vehicle (EV) charging station to meet an EV at a particular time and place. In one implementation, EV trip data including a remaining range of the EV and an intended route of the EV is collected to determine a range of locations that the EV can stop at along its route without running out of power. Instructions to one of the locations are generated for a mobile EV charging station that is a best fit for arriving at the particular location and for the EV to reach the same location.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method for mobile electric vehicle (EV) charging, the computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving, at one or more processors, trip data of an EV, the trip data including a remaining range of the EV and a route of the EV, the remaining range of the EV corresponding to a current power level of the EV;
- predicting, at the one or more processors, that the EV will have a power level below a threshold power level in an area along the route of the EV based on the trip data;
- determining, at the one or more processors, whether at least one EV charging station is available in the area along the route of the EV;
- identifying, at the one or more processors, a mobile EV charging station of a plurality of mobile EV charging stations when the at least one EV charging station is unavailable in the area along the route of the EV;
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- directing the mobile EV charging station to a particular location relative to the route to meet the EV at a particular time.
One or more tangible non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions for performing a computer process on a computing system, the computer process comprising:
- generating a prediction that an EV will have a power level below a threshold power level in an area in which EV charging stations are unavailable based on trip data of the EV, the trip data including a remaining range of the EV and a route of the EV, the remaining range of the EV corresponding to a current power level of the EV;
- determining a current location of each of a plurality of mobile EV stations;
- determining a current charge level of each of the plurality of mobile EV stations;
- determining an availability of each of the plurality of mobile EV stations;
- identifying a mobile EV charging station from the plurality of mobile EV stations for charging the EV based on the current location, the current charge level, and the availability of each of the plurality of mobile EV stations;
- determining a particular location for the mobile EV charging station to meet the EV for charging;
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- requesting the mobile EV charging station to meet the EV at a particular time and at the particular location.
A system for mobile electric vehicle (EV) charging, the system comprising:
- a server in communication with a first computing device associated with an EV over a network, the EV having a remaining range corresponding to a current power level of the EV and a route along which the EV is predicted to have a power level below a threshold power level in an area in which EV charging stations are unavailable, the server in communication with a second computing device associated with a mobile EV station over the network, the server causing the mobile EV station to be deployed to a particular location to meet the EV at a particular time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.