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US 12,741,538 B2Granted
Electric vehicle energy management system
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsBrendan F. Diamond, Erik J. Christen, Matthew Joseph, Shehan Haputhanthri
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Abstract
A controller selectively generates output for display indicative of a recommendation against use of a power outlet in a vehicle with devices external to the vehicle having a power rating greater than a predefined power rating threshold based on a difference between a current state of charge of a battery of the vehicle and a required state of charge for the battery.
Claims3
A method comprising:
- while a difference between distance to empty and distance to station values for a vehicle is less than a distance threshold, limiting a power available from a power outlet in the vehicle arranged to supply power from a battery of the vehicle to a device plugged into the power outlet and external to the vehicle;
- and
- after the difference becomes greater than the distance threshold, increasing the power available from the power outlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.