Vehicle-to-vehicle energy market system
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJayanta Basak, Devasenapathi P. Seetharamakrishnan
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Abstract
The use of a just-in-time market for EV's (electric vehicles) to buy and sell energy from each other directly. Such a market enables the following: sellers to advertise the amount of energy they are willing to sell and the minimum selling price; buyers to advertise the amount of energy they are interested in buying and the maximum buying price. The market works at any location and at any time as long as there is a buyer and seller. The communications are directly between buyers and sellers without the involvement of any third parties.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- ascertaining an electric energy imbalance in a vehicle at least partly powered by electric power;
- broadcasting the imbalance to one or more other vehicles;
- said broadcasting comprising broadcasting an opening price for energy to redress the imbalance;
- listening for one or more bids from the one or more other vehicles;
- deciding on whether to accept a bid from another vehicle;
- and
- collecting identifying information from a vehicle from which a bid is accepted.
An apparatus comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith and executable by the one or more processors, the computer readable program code comprising:
- computer readable program code configured to ascertain an electric energy imbalance in a vehicle at least partly powered by electric power;
- computer readable program code configured to broadcast the imbalance to one or more other vehicles and broadcast an opening price for energy to redress the imbalance;
- computer readable program code configured to listen for one or more bids from the one or more other vehicles;
- computer readable program code configured to decide on whether to accept a bid from another vehicle;
- and
- computer readable program code configured to identify information from a vehicle from which a bid is accepted.
A computer program product comprising:
- a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:
- computer readable program code configured to ascertain an electric energy imbalance in a vehicle at least partly powered by electric power;
- computer readable program code configured to broadcast the imbalance to one or more other vehicles and broadcast an opening price for energy to redress the imbalance;
- listening for one or more bids from the one or more other vehicles;
- computer readable program code configured to decide on whether to accept a bid from another vehicle;
- and
- computer readable program code configured to identify information from a vehicle from which a bid is accepted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.