# US 2020/0401957 A1 · Performing actions in response to charging events

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- Number: US 2020/0401957 A1
- Document ID: US20200401957A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 17/013,390
- Filed: 2020-09-04
- Published: 2020-12-24
- Earliest claimed: 2015-05-15
- Assignees: Recargo, Inc.
- Applicants: Recargo, Inc.
- Inventors: Nick WILD; Forrest NORTH
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20200401957A1

## CPC

- G06Q 10/02: Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
- B60L 53/60: Monitoring or controlling charging stations
- B60L 53/62: in response to charging parameters, e.g. current, voltage or electrical charge
- B60L 53/66: Data transfer between charging stations and vehicles
- B60L 53/67: Controlling two or more charging stations
- B60L 58/12: responding to state of charge [SoC]
- G01C 21/3697: {Output of additional, non-guidance related information, e.g. low fuel level (G01C21/3679 takes precedence)}
- Y02T 10/70: Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
- Y02T 10/7072: Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
- Y02T 90/12: Electric charging stations
- Y02T 90/16: Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
- G01C: MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effects, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S)
- Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION

## Abstract

Systems and methods for performing actions in response to charging events, such as charging events associated with a specific electric vehicle and/or a specific charging station, are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods may receive a request from an electric vehicle to identify a charging station from which to charge a battery of the electric vehicle, provide information associated with the electric vehicle to one or more charging stations proximate to the electric vehicle, receive from the one or more charging stations information identifying parameters associated with potential charging events provided by the one or more charging stations, and provide the information identifying the parameters associated with potential charging events provided by the one or more charging stations to the electric vehicle.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A computerized method, comprising:
receiving a request from an electric vehicle to identify a charging station from which to charge a battery of the electric vehicle;
providing information associated with the electric vehicle to one or more charging stations proximate to the electric vehicle;
receiving from the one or more charging stations information identifying parameters associated with potential charging events provided by the one or more charging stations, including parameters that identify whether a charging station has previously charged electric vehicles having a similar make and model to the electric vehicle;
providing the information identifying the parameters associated with potential charging events provided by the one or more charging stations to the electric vehicle.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein providing information associated with the electric vehicle to one or more charging stations proximate to the electric vehicle includes providing information identifying an amount of current charge of the battery and information identifying a predicted route currently driven by the electric vehicle.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein providing information associated with the electric vehicle to one or more charging stations proximate to the electric vehicle includes providing information identifying an amount of current charge of the battery and information identifying a distance between a current location of the electric vehicle and a predicted end point of a route currently driven by the electric vehicle.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the information identifying the parameters associated with potential charging events provided by the one or more charging stations to the electric vehicle includes information identifying a cost to charge the electric vehicle during a charging event.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the information identifying the parameters associated with potential charging events provided by the one or more charging stations to the electric vehicle includes information identifying a time frame and duration for charging the electric vehicle during a charging event.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein providing the information identifying the parameters associated with potential charging events provided by the one or more charging stations to the electric vehicle includes providing a ranked list of potential charging events to a driver of the electric vehicle, each charging event in the ranked list including a location of a charging station associated with the charging event and a cost to charge the battery of the electric vehicle to a sufficient capacity.

### Claim 7

A computerized method, comprising:
determining an electric vehicle is below a battery capacity threshold;
in response to the determination that the electric vehicle is below a battery capacity threshold, sending a request to multiple charging stations to charge the electric vehicle;
obtaining from the multiple charging stations information identifying parameters associated with potential charging events provided by the multiple charging stations,
wherein the parameters associated with the potential charging events include parameters that identify whether one or more charging stations of the multiple charging stations have successfully charged electric vehicles having a similar make and model to the electric vehicle below the battery capacity threshold; and
automatically selecting one of the multiple charging stations to charge the electric vehicle based on the information identifying the parameters associated with potential charging events provided by the multiple charging stations.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The method of claim 7, wherein determining an electric vehicle is below a battery capacity threshold includes:
identifying a predicted route currently driven by the electric vehicle; and
determining an amount of current charge of the battery is less than a sufficient amount of charge to drive the electric vehicle on the predicted route.

### Claim 9 (depends on 7)

The method of claim 7, wherein determining an electric vehicle is below a battery capacity threshold includes:
identifying a distance between a current location of the electric vehicle and a predicted end point of a route currently driven by the electric vehicle; and
determining an amount of current charge of the battery is less than a sufficient amount of charge to drive the electric vehicle to the end point of the route currently driven by the electric vehicle.

### Claim 10 (depends on 7)

The method of claim 7, wherein automatically selecting one of the multiple charging stations to charge the electric vehicle based on the information identifying parameters associated with potential charging events provided by the multiple charging stations includes automatically selecting a charging station associated with a lowest cost to charge the battery of the electric vehicle to a charge amount that is above the battery capacity threshold but below a total charge capacity of the battery.

### Claim 11 (depends on 7)

The method of claim 7, further comprising:
automatically reserving the selected charging station for the electric vehicle.

### Claim 12

A non-transitory computer-readable medium whose contents, when executed by a computing system of an electric vehicle causes the computing system to perform a method, the method comprising:
obtaining from multiple charging stations information identifying parameters associated with potential charging events to be provided by the one or more charging stations to the electric vehicle,
wherein the information is obtained in response to a request sent to the multiple charging stations upon determining the battery of the electric vehicle is below the battery capacity threshold, and
wherein at least one of the charging stations dynamically generates parameters associated with a potential charging event at the one charging station in response to the request;
presenting a ranked list of the potential charging events to a driver of the electric vehicle based on the parameters associated with the potential charging events,
wherein the parameters for each potential charging event include:
an indication that the charging station has previously charged electric vehicles having a similar make and model to the electric vehicle during previous charging events; and
selecting one of the multiple charging stations to charge the electric vehicle based on the ranked list of the potential charging events presented to the driver of the electric vehicle.

### Claim 13 (depends on 12)

The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein determining an electric vehicle is below a battery capacity threshold includes:
identifying a predicted route currently driven by the electric vehicle; and
determining an amount of current charge of the battery is less than a sufficient amount of charge to drive the electric vehicle on the predicted route;
wherein automatically selecting one of the charging stations to charge the electric vehicle includes automatically selecting a charging station located within the route currently driven by the electric vehicle.

### Claim 14 (depends on 12)

The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein determining an electric vehicle is below a battery capacity threshold includes:
identifying a distance between a current location of the electric vehicle and a predicted end point of a route currently driven by the electric vehicle; and
determining an amount of current charge of the battery is less than a sufficient amount of charge to drive the electric vehicle to the end point of the route currently driven by the electric vehicle.

### Claim 15 (depends on 12)

The computer-readable medium of claim 12, further comprising:
automatically reserving the electric vehicle to charge with the selected charging station.

### Claim 16 (depends on 12)

The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein determining an electric vehicle is below a battery capacity threshold includes:
identifying a distance between a current location of the electric vehicle, locations of the multiple charging stations, and a predicted end point of a route currently driven by the electric vehicle; and
determining an amount of current charge of the battery is less than a sufficient amount of charge to drive the electric vehicle to the end point of the route currently driven by the electric vehicle.

### Claim 17 (depends on 12)

The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the parameters include a location of the charging station that charges the electric vehicle during the potential charging event.

### Claim 18 (depends on 12)

The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the parameters include a cost to charge the battery of the electric vehicle to a capacity that is sufficient to support the route of travel predicted to be driven by the electric vehicle within the certain time period but lower than a full capacity of the battery of the electric vehicle.

### Claim 19 (depends on 12)

The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the parameters include a cost to charge the battery of the electric vehicle to a capacity that is sufficient to support the route of travel predicted to be driven by the electric vehicle within the certain time period.

### Claim 20 (depends on 12)

The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the parameters include a duration of time to charge the battery of the electric vehicle to a capacity that is sufficient to support the route of travel predicted to be driven by the electric vehicle within the certain time period but lower than a full capacity of the battery of the electric vehicle.