Apparatus and method for electric vehicle battery resource sharing

An electric vehicle (EV) battery resource sharing method that provides a plurality of standardized EV battery modules to users of Electric Vehicles (EV), wherein each EV battery module is configured to provide power to a plurality of different models of EVs manufactured by a plurality of different vehicle manufacturing companies, wherein each one of the plurality of standardized EV battery modules has an EV module information device that stores battery module information associated with the standardized EV battery module, and wherein the plurality of standardized EV battery modules includes a first standardized EV battery module and a second standardized EV battery module, the method comprising:

• receiving from a user of an EV, at a battery exchange facility, a return of the first standardized EV battery module that is at least partially discharged;
• releasing, at the battery exchange facility, the second standardized EV battery module that is fully charged only after completion of a user payment by the user for the fully charged second standardized EV battery module;
• communicatively coupling a battery resource manager to the module information device of the first standardized EV battery module;
• monitoring, by the battery resource manager, an amount of power for a recharging of the first standardized EV battery module to a fully charged state;
• determining, by the battery resource manager, a cost of power to be paid to a power provider based on the monitored amount of power for the recharging of the first standardized EV battery module;
• identifying, by the battery resource manager, an owner of the second standardized EV battery module based on a first unique identifier included in the battery module information of the second standardized EV battery module;
• determining, by the battery resource manager, a first payment due to the power provider based on the determined cost of power for recharging of the first standardized EV battery module;
• determining, by the battery resource manager, a second payment due to an owner of the second standardized EV battery module based on the EV battery module information of the second standardized EV battery module;
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• determining, by the battery resource manager, a third payment due to an owner of the battery exchange facility.