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AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsKenneth James Miller, William Paul Perkins, Jimmy Kapadia
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Example systems and methods to determine electric vehicle range based on environmental factors are disclosed. An example disclosed vehicle includes a battery pack, a HVAC control module, and an electronic control unit that includes a range calculator. The example range calculator determine a base power load, determines an auxiliary power load based on a sun load, an ambient temperature, a cabin temperature, and a temperature setting, and calculates a range of the vehicle based on the base power load, the auxiliary power load and a charge of the battery pack.
A vehicle comprising:
A method to determine an estimated range of an electric vehicle, the method comprising:
A tangible computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed cause a vehicle to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.