On-demand rental of electric vehicles
AssigneeBird Rides, Inc.
InventorTravis VanderZanden
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Abstract
Techniques to provide on demand rental of electric vehicles are disclosed. In various embodiments, data representing one or more of a location and an availability state of each of a plurality of electric vehicles comprising a fleet of electric vehicles made available for use on demand is received. The received location and availability state data is used to determine a set of vehicles currently available to be used. Data is provided to each of a plurality of user, the data provided to each user indicating the respective locations of one or more vehicles currently available for use by the user within an area of interest associated with the user.
Claims27
A system, comprising:
- a communication interface;
- and
- a processor coupled to the communication interface and configured to:
- receive via the communication interface from each of a plurality of electric vehicles comprising a fleet of electric vehicles made available for use on demand data representing one or more of a location and an availability state of the vehicle;
- use the received location and availability state data to determine a set of vehicles currently available to be used;
- and
- provide via the communication interface to each of a plurality of users data indicating the respective locations of one or more vehicles currently available for use by the user within an area of interest associated with the user.
A method, comprising:
- receiving via a communication interface, from each of a plurality of electric vehicles comprising a fleet of electric vehicles made available for use on demand, data representing one or more of a location and an availability state of the vehicle;
- and
- using a processor to:
- use the received location and availability state data to determine a set of vehicles currently available to be used;
- and
- provide via the communication interface to each of a plurality of users data indicating the respective locations of one or more vehicles currently available for use by the user within an area of interest associated with the user.
A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable medium, comprising computer instructions for:
- receiving via a communication interface, from each of a plurality of electric vehicles comprising a fleet of electric vehicles made available for use on demand, data representing one or more of a location and an availability state of the vehicle;
- using the received location and availability state data to determine a set of vehicles currently available to be used;
- and
- providing via the communication interface to each of a plurality of users data indicating the respective locations of one or more vehicles currently available for use by the user within an area of interest associated with the user.
A device, comprising:
- a communication interface;
- and
- a processor coupled to the communication interface and configured to:
- receive via the communication interface data indicating the respective locations of one or more vehicles currently available for use by the user within an area of interest associated with the mobile device, the vehicles being included in a fleet of electric vehicles made available for use on demand data;
- display via a map-based interactive user interface data representing at least a subset of the one or more vehicles currently available for use by the user within an area of interest associated with the mobile device;
- receive an indication to ride a specific vehicle;
- and
- send to a remote server data associated with the indication to ride the specific vehicle, wherein the remote server is configured to process the data associated with the indication to ride the specific vehicle and to unlock the specific vehicle for use based at least in part on the data associated with the indication to ride the specific vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.