Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Benjamin J Groelke

Max K Ralya

Tapan V Patel

Arlo C Eitzer

Allison McGowan

A battery manager includes a pattern estimator, a prediction engine, and a charging scheduler. The pattern estimator estimates a driving pattern of an electric vehicle. The prediction engine predicts a charging parameter based on at least one of the driving pattern or driver charging behavior. The charging scheduler outputs the charging parameter to control charging of a secondary battery of the electric vehicle. The pattern estimator may estimate the driving pattern based on information from at least one information source of the electric vehicle. The prediction engine predicts the charging parameter of the secondary battery in preparation of a future use of the electric vehicle.

Adjusting battery soc based on future use of an electric vehicle

An example operation includes one or more of determining a first transport attempting to access a bay with a charging station can utilize the charging station and has a higher priority than a second transport utilizing the charging station in the bay and notifying the second transport to cease utilizing the charging station and to vacate the bay after a time.

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Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

Benjamin J Groelke