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US 2015/0306974 A1Published application
Charging station providing thermal conditioning of electric vehicle during charging session
AssigneeTesla Motors, Inc.
InventorsJOSEPH MARDALL, Christopher H. Van Dyke
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Abstract
A method of thermally conditioning an energy storage of a vehicle while charging includes: receiving, at a charging station, thermal information about the energy storage; supplying, by the charging station, electric energy to the energy storage in a charging session; and providing, by the charging station and based on the thermal information, thermal conditioning of the energy storage during at least part of the charging session.
Claims22
A method of thermally conditioning an energy storage of a vehicle while charging, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a charging station, thermal information about the energy storage;
- supplying, by the charging station, electric energy to the energy storage in a charging session;
- and
- providing, by the charging station and based on the thermal information, thermal conditioning of the energy storage during at least part of the charging session.
1 more element
A system comprising:
- charging equipment configured to supply electric energy in a charging session to an energy storage of a vehicle;
- and
- means for providing, based on thermal information about the energy storage received from the vehicle, thermal conditioning of the energy storage during at least part of the charging session.
A vehicle comprising:
- an energy storage configured to store electric energy for at least propulsion of the vehicle;
- and
- a coupling configured to receive thermal conditioning of the energy storage provided by a system external to the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.