Methods and apparatuses for utilization of excess vehicular resources

A method comprising:

• determining that vehicle computing resources will not be fully utilized during an upcoming time period;
• determining that exhaustible vehicle power reserves will not be exhausted beyond a threshold based on use of the reserves to power computing using unused computing resources during at least a portion of the time period, including at least preservation of sufficient power projected to be necessary to reach a predicted charging point;
• determining which vehicle computing resources are suitable for cryptocurrency mining based at least on resource computing capability and a predicted availability of a given resource during the upcoming time period;
• determining at least one cryptocurrency to mine based on present value of the at least one cryptocurrency producing a positive yield relative to an expense of power used to mine the cryptocurrency using the vehicle computing resources determined to be suitable for cryptocurrency mining;
• and
• automatically mining the at least one cryptocurrency using the vehicle computing resource determined to be suitable for cryptocurrency mining during the upcoming time period.

A vehicle comprising:

• a plurality of processors, at least one of which is configured to:
• examine an upcoming route to determine predicted vehicle computing resource usage at a plurality of locations, based on at least one of fixed or dynamic characteristics of the route;
• based on the predicted vehicle computing resource usage, determine which onboard vehicle computing resources suitable for cryptocurrency mining will not be fully utilized when the vehicle is at least one of the plurality of locations;
• determine that exhaustible vehicle power reserves will not be exhausted beyond a threshold based on use of the reserves to power computing using one or more of the onboard vehicle computing resources suitable for cryptocurrency mining at the at least one location;
• and
• responsive to the vehicle power reserves being determined to not be exhausted beyond the threshold, automatically mine the at least one cryptocurrency using the one or more onboard vehicle computing resources suitable for cryptocurrency mining when the vehicle reaches the at least one location.