Battery preconditioning management for vehicle fleets
AssigneeBp Pulse Fleet North America Inc.
InventorEthan SHAOTRAN
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Abstract
A method of coordinating a fleet of vehicles includes receiving a first preconditioning characteristic of a first battery from a first vehicle of the fleet of vehicles. The method further includes receiving a second preconditioning characteristic of a second battery from a second vehicle of the fleet of vehicles. The method further includes comparing the first preconditioning characteristic and the second preconditioning characteristic to determine a preconditioning ranking for the first vehicle and the second vehicle. The method further includes determining a queue of the first and second vehicles for a charging station using the preconditioning ranking of the first and second vehicles.
Claims20
A method of coordinating a fleet of vehicles, the method comprising:
- receiving a first preconditioning characteristic of a first battery from a first vehicle of the fleet of vehicles;
- receiving a second preconditioning characteristic of a second battery from a second vehicle of the fleet of vehicles;
- comparing the first preconditioning characteristic and the second preconditioning characteristic to determine a preconditioning ranking for the first vehicle and the second vehicle;
- determining a queue of the first and second vehicles for a charging station using the preconditioning ranking of the first and second vehicles.
A system comprising:
- a plurality of vehicles, one or more vehicles of the plurality of vehicles having a battery;
- a charging station configured to charge the battery of the one or more vehicles;
- and
- a fleet management system comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with instructions which, when executed by one or more processing elements of the fleet management system, cause the system to:
- determine a preconditioning characteristic of batteries of the one or more vehicles, and
- determine a queue for the one or more vehicles for the charging station using the preconditioning characteristic.
A method of coordinating a fleet of vehicles, the method comprising:
- determining a preconditioning ranking for a first vehicle and a second vehicle by comparing a first preconditioning characteristic of a first battery of the first vehicle and a second preconditioning characteristic of a second battery of the second vehicle;
- determining a queue of the first and second vehicles for a charging station using the preconditioning ranking of the first and second vehicles;
- determining an override priority of the first vehicle and second vehicle;
- and
- updating the queue based on the override priority.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.