Battery power management apparatus and method for electric vehicles and/or hybrid vehicles

An apparatus, comprising:

• a vehicle computer, wherein the vehicle computer is located at a vehicle, wherein the vehicle is an electric vehicle or a hybrid vehicle, and further wherein the vehicle further comprises:
• a battery;
• a fuel cell;
• and
• a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader;
• and
• battery recharging equipment, wherein the battery recharging equipment is located at the vehicle, and further wherein the battery recharging equipment comprises a plug-in recharging system, an electric road inductive charging system or an inductive charging coil, or an electric road electrified contact charging system or a deployable conductor,
• wherein the vehicle computer processes information to determine a battery charge level or a battery charge state for the battery of the vehicle or a fuel cell fuel level for the fuel cell of the vehicle,
• wherein the radio frequency identification (RFID) reader obtains information from a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag of a battery recharging system located at a battery recharging facility or wherein the radio frequency identification (RFID) reader obtains information from a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag of a fuel cell fuel dispensing system of the fuel cell refueling facility,
• wherein the vehicle computer stores the information read by, or obtained by, the radio frequency identification (RFID) reader, wherein the vehicle computer receives a recharging account use alert message or a refueling account use alert message transmitted from a computer associated with the battery recharging facility or the fuel cell refueling facility, and further wherein the vehicle computer displays the recharging account use alert message or the refueling account use alert message via a display device,
• and further wherein the vehicle computer receives an activity report regarding, or containing information regarding, the recharging of the battery at the battery recharging facility or the refueling of the fuel cell at the fuel cell refueling facility,
• wherein the activity report or information contained in the activity report is stored in a distributed ledger and blockchain technology system or in a database of a central processing computer.