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US 2026/0233634 A1Published application
Electric bus battery interchange system and method
AssigneeNew Flyer Industries Canada ULC
InventorsRobert Brydon Thomas OWEN, Kirk Stephane BURCAR
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Abstract
The present specification provides an electric bus battery interchange system, method and apparatus. A switching module seamlessly intermediates between a vehicle controller and a plurality of energy storage systems (ESS). A portion of the energy storage systems can be replaced while the switching module generates signals to the vehicle controller that are transparent to the vehicle controller.
Claims20
A method for controlling an electric bus or coach comprising:
- receiving a battery inventory of each of a plurality of heterogenous battery units;
- receiving a bus electricity demand parameters;
- determining a power profile based on the inventory and the parameters;
- drawing different electricity profiles from different ones of the battery units;
- generating the power profile by normalizing the different electricity profiles;
- managing battery thermal management control across each plurality of battery units;
- managing sequencing of the plurality of batteries during both driving and charging modes and,
- driving the powertrain of the bus according to the power profile.
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A controller for power and cooling management on an electric bus comprising a processor configured to:
- receive a battery inventory of each of a plurality of heterogenous battery units;
- receive a bus electricity demand parameters;
- determine a power profile based on the inventory and the parameters;
- draw different electricity profiles from different ones of the battery units;
- generate the power profile by normalizing the different electricity profiles;
- manage battery thermal management control across each plurality of battery units;
- manage sequencing of the plurality of batteries during both driving and charging modes and,
- drive the powertrain of the bus according to the power profile.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.