Electrified fire fighting vehicle
AssigneeOshkosh Corporation
InventorsDavid Kay, Rachell Harsh
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Abstract
An electrified fire fighting vehicle includes a chassis, a cab coupled to the chassis, a user interface disposed within the cab, a body coupled to the chassis rearward of the cab, an electric motor supported by the chassis, a battery pack supported by the chassis and electrically coupled to the electric motor, and a control system. The control system is configured to perform, at startup, a plurality of checks on the electrified fire fighting vehicle to determine an electric (EV) ready state, and provide an indication via the user interface that the electrified fire fighting vehicle is in the EV ready state and can be started in an EV ready mode, where the vehicle can operate using the electric motor as a primary power source.
Claims20
An electrified fire fighting vehicle comprising:
- a chassis;
- a cab coupled to the chassis;
- a user interface disposed within the cab;
- a body coupled to the chassis rearward of the cab;
- an electric motor supported by the chassis;
- a battery pack supported by the chassis, the battery pack electrically coupled to the electric motor;
- and
- a control system configured to:
- perform, at startup, a plurality of checks on the electrified fire fighting vehicle to determine an electric (EV) ready state;
- and
- provide an indication via the user interface to indicate whether the electrified fire fighting vehicle is in the EV ready state and can be started in an EV ready mode where the vehicle can operate using the electric motor as a primary power source.
A system for starting an electrified fire fighting vehicle comprising:
- a controller comprising one or more processors coupled with memory, configured to:
- determine a vehicle state of the electrified fire fighting vehicle;
- perform, based at least on the vehicle state, a plurality of checks on the electrified fire fighting vehicle to determine whether the vehicle is in an electric (EV) ready state;
- transmit, to a user interface of the electrified fire fighting vehicle, a vehicle state signal indicating whether the electrified fire fighting vehicle is in the EV ready state;
- receive, from the user interface, a vehicle state request signal corresponding to a request to start the electrified fire fighting vehicle;
- and
- in response to the vehicle state request signal, update the vehicle state to an EV ready mode when the electrified fire fighting vehicle is in the EV ready state, or to a non-EV start mode when the electrified fire fighting vehicle is not in the EV ready state.
A method for starting an electrified fire fighting vehicle, comprising:
- determining, by one or more processors, a vehicle state of the electrified fire fighting vehicle;
- performing, by the one or more processors, based at least on the vehicle state, a plurality of checks on the electrified fire fighting vehicle to determine whether the vehicle is in an electric (EV) ready state;
- transmitting, by the one or more processors, to a user interface of the electrified fire fighting vehicle, a vehicle state signal indicating whether the electrified fire fighting vehicle is in the EV ready state;
- receiving, by the one or more processors, from the user interface, a vehicle state request signal corresponding to a request to start the electrified fire fighting vehicle;
- in response to the vehicle state request signal, updating, by the one or more processors, the vehicle state to an EV ready mode when the electrified fire fighting vehicle is in the EV ready state, or to a non-EV start mode when the electrified fire fighting vehicle is not in the EV ready state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.