Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

David McCreadie

Ryan O'gorman

Ghassan AlRegib

Donna L Bell

Michael Robert Tinskey

Daniel Lewis Boston

Farshad Harirchi

Yan Fu

Devang Bhalchandra Dave

Renuka Vikram Gokhale

Hossein Sartipizadeh

Ahmadreza Mahmoudzadeh

Mahmood Tabesh

Sunil Goyal

Berdinus Bras

Mohammed Aabed

Tariq Alshawi

Min-Hung Chen

One or more controllers, responsive to an amount of power transferred from a traction battery of a vehicle to a utility grid during a planning period exceeding a predefined kWh amount that is greater than a kWh capacity of the traction battery, inhibit further transfer of power from the traction battery to the utility grid for a remainder of the planning period.

Control of bi-directional power transfer

A controller may, after receiving indication that an electric utility provider will reduce power supplied during an upcoming period of time, increase a cost of charge energy for vehicles that charge at a rate at least equal to a threshold rate during the upcoming period of time. The controller may also decrease the cost of charge energy for vehicles that avoid charging or charge at a rate less than the threshold rate during the upcoming period of time.

Electric vehicle charging aggregation

A computing device, programmed to: acquire a color image and transform the color image into a color-component map. The computer can be further programmed to process the color-component map to detect a traffic sign by determining spatial coincidence and determining temporal consistency between the color-component map and the traffic sign.

Color learning

A plurality of data streams are received from a vehicle, at least one of the data streams including multimedia data. A prioritization of the data streams is performed according to one or more factors. At least one of adjusting at least one of the data streams and preventing transmission of at least one of the data streams according to the prioritization is performed.

Remote vehicle control and operation

A vehicle and a vehicle battery charging system are disclosed. The vehicle charging system includes a parking structure having solar collector. The solar collector is configured to collect and concentrate solar energy. The concentrated solar energy is then transferred to a solar panel located on the vehicle in order to charge a battery of the vehicle.

Electric vehicle charging system

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Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

David McCreadie