Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Annika Elise Nordlund-Swenson

Jeremy Whaling

John P Moon

Michael T Sailer

Ryan D Harty

Katie C Wallace

Spencer L Mackay

Takuya Idehara

David K B Lee

Kimberlee Cozby Muenzer

Nathan G Brown

James Keen

Alen Simon

Panagiotis Giannopoulos

The systems and methods provided herein are directed to a system of modular mobile autonomous vehicles that can selectively connect in order to combine dining experiences of different passengers. Passenger preferences, trip details, and food logistics can each be factors in determining optimal matches for combined dining.

Mobile modular dining

The systems and methods provided herein are directed to a system for managing a jointly owned autonomous vehicle. The system schedules usage of the vehicle by different owners, makes the vehicle available for rental by third parties when not in use by the owners, and distributes expenses and rental revenue to owners proportional to each owner's ownership interest or in accordance with user behavior and vehicle usage, as appropriate.

Vehicle sharing

In an illustrative embodiment, and to remove overall peak demand, a dealership energy management system may include bi-directional charging devices that may be associated with inventory vehicles and output devices that may be associated with customer vehicles. Inventory may be processed and associated with days stored at the dealership. The inventory vehicles may be charged up to 60% during off-peak hours to provide charge to incoming customer vehicles during peak hours. The inventory vehicles may discharge down to 40%, while providing charge to the customer vehicles, before another vehicle within the inventory is selected to provide charge. Inventory vehicles may be charged and discharged based on the days stored at the dealership as well as whether those vehicles have been discharged below a threshold.

Dealership energy management system for charging incoming customer vehicles with inventory vehicles and method thereof

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Kent, WA, United States of America

Annika Elise Nordlund-Swenson