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US 12,223,776 B1Granted
Electric vehicle range detection and processing
OwnerBenjamin J Kwitek, Scott C Harrisinventors
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Abstract
A vehicle monitoring system that monitors operation of a first vehicle on a road to determine an amount of fuel actually used by the first vehicle on each of a plurality of stretches of the road, and to use that amount of fuel used by the first vehicle on stretches of the road to determine an estimated range that a vehicle can travel based on a current fuel amount of the vehicle. The fuel is preferably electric charge. An embodiment crowd-shares the data between vehicles, so that a vehicle can get information about the battery consumption on an actual stretch of roadway.
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A vehicle system, comprising:
- a vehicle controller comprising a computer that monitors operation of a first vehicle on a road to determine an amount of fuel used by the first vehicle on each of a plurality of stretches of the road, and to use said amount of fuel used by the first vehicle on stretches of the road to determine an estimated range that a vehicle can travel based on a current fuel amount of the vehicle, wherein the vehicle controller determines a total amount of time that it will take to refuel the vehicle at different locations, the total amount of time including time for exiting the road from the current route, finding a vehicle refueler, and actually refueling at the refueler and providing information about the total amount of time it will take to refuel including the time for exiting the road from the current route, finding the vehicle refueler, and the refueling at different locations to the user, and the vehicle controller providing parameters for the vehicle, to minimize a total time of a trip and the vehicle controller operating the first vehicle according to these parameters to minimize the total time of the trip.
A vehicle system, comprising:
- a vehicle controller, including a computer, that monitors operation of a first vehicle on a road to determine a total amount of time taken to refuel the first vehicle at a first location including the time for exiting the road from the current route, finding the vehicle refueler, and the refueling;
- a database that stores the total amount of time taken to refuel the first vehicle at the first location;
- the database receiving total amounts of time taken to refuel other vehicles at other locations, from the other vehicle, including the time for exiting the road from the current route, finding the vehicle charger, and the charging and the database sharing the amount of time taken to refuel the other vehicle at the other location;
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- the controller receiving an indication from the vehicle of a desired trip destination and estimates different times to get to the desired trip destination including refueling at the different locations;
- the controller determining fuel consumption from turning off electrical or mechanical loads in the vehicle,
- the controller determining if a trip will get shorter in time by turning off the loads in the vehicle, and providing instructions to the user to turn off the loads in the vehicle, responsive to the determining, and turning off the loads to make the trip shorter in time.
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