Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Kai Wu

Dimitar Petrov Filev

Chen Zhang

Yan Wang

Brandon Michael Dawson

Dominique Meroux

A method for vehicle-to-vehicle charging includes identifying a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) for charging based on a determination that the PHEV's engine will start prior to the PHEV's battery being charged from an external power source. The method can include identifying a battery electric vehicle (BEV) to provide charging to the identified PHEV and transmitting location information to at least one of the PHEV or the BEV for navigating to the location of the other of the PHEV or the BEV. An electrical connection between the BEV and the PHEV is verified and a BEV to PHEV charging process is actuated.

Vehicle-to-vehicle charging

Operation data from one or more vehicle subsystems are input to a vehicle dynamics model. Predicted operation data of the one or more vehicle subsystems are output from the vehicle dynamics model. The operation data and the predicted operation data are input to an optimization program that is programmed to output control directives for the one or more vehicle subsystems. One or more vehicle subsystems are operated according to the output control directives.

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