Toyota Motor North America, Inc.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Norman Lu

Maximilian Parness

Geoffrey David Gaither

Ronnie Nomoto

An example operation includes one or more of: receiving usage data of a group of vehicles; determining an operator of a vehicle of the group of vehicles with a lowest battery degradation, based on the usage data; and predicting one or more other operators of other vehicles of the group of vehicles, with a highest probability of providing the lowest battery degradation, based on the determining.

Limiting battery degradation for a group of vehicles

An example operation includes one or more of determining an estimated arrival time of a first transport to a charging station, determining an estimated remaining stored transport energy at the estimated arrival time of the first transport, notifying the first transport to provide a portion of the determined remaining stored transport energy and when a next transport is delayed to the charging station, notifying the first transport to provide an additional portion of the determined remaining stored transport energy based on the delay.

Distance-based energy transfer from a transport

An example operation includes one or more of establishing communication between a transport and a location via a module including a battery, determining an energy amount in the transport and an energy requirement at the location, and initiating a transfer of a portion of the energy amount from the transport to the battery based on an intended use of the portion at one or more devices at the location.

Energy transfer based on intended use

An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a station, a first group of transports in need of charge and a second group of transports capable of providing charge, prioritizing, by the station, at least one transport of the second group to come to the station at a time prior to when at least one transport of the first group comes to the station, receiving, at the station, a first amount of charge from the at least one transport of the second group, and providing, from the station, a second amount of charge to the at least one transport of the first group.

Power allocation to transports

An example operation includes determining, by a first vehicle, that an outage of an electrical grid exists at a location in an area, wherein the first vehicle is coupled to the electrical grid through a charging station at the location; and requesting, by the first vehicle, for a second vehicle to provide electricity to the location, wherein the second vehicle is in motion in the area.

Vehicle-based detection and management of electrical power

An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a transport at a first location, that the transport is not in use, determining, by the transport, a second location to transfer energy stored in the transport, maneuvering, by the transport, to the second location, discharging, by the transport, the stored energy to the second location, and maneuvering, by the transport, to the first location.

Executing an energy transfer directive for an idle transport

An example operation includes one or more of providing, by a battery of a vehicle, energy to a location, departing, by the vehicle, when a condition at the location is above or below a threshold, receiving a charge at the battery of the vehicle, from a charging station until the condition is at the threshold, and returning, by the vehicle, to the location when the condition is at the threshold and a capacity of the battery is above a level.

Mobile energy delivery management

An example operation includes one or more of determining a route and type of elements to be transported by a transport and decommissioning one or more batteries on the transport based on the determining. The one or more batteries are configured to be detachably attached.

Decommissioning transport batteries

An example operation includes one or more of providing to a charging station a distance desired to be driven by a transport and determining, by the charging station, an amount of energy to retrieve from the transport such that a residual amount of energy in the transport is equivalent to the distance desired to be driven.

Load effects on transport energy

An example operation includes one or more of: determining an event of a vehicle consuming a required amount of energy greater than a first threshold; providing, by a removable auxiliary battery of the vehicle, at least a portion of the required amount of energy during the event; and providing, by a core battery of the vehicle, a second amount of energy upon completion of the event.

Electric vehicle auxiliary battery usage for energy consumption events

An example operation includes one or more of determining transports able to provide supplemental energy when an event occurs related to an electrical grid, selecting one or more of the determined transports to appear in order at a location affected by the event, where the order is based on a size of the selected transports, and provide the supplemental energy from the selected transports to the location.

Grid event electric vehicle management

An example operation includes one or more of merging at least one vehicle from a first group of vehicles and at least one vehicle from a second group of vehicles, where the merged vehicles communicate with one another, and where a main vehicle in the second group is notified of the merging by the at least one vehicle in the second group after the merging.

Managing communication in a group of vehicles

An example operation includes one or more of determining, via a transport, a state of charge of a storage unit of the transport, determining, via the transport, an environment at a location, determining, via the transport, a status of a charging station at the location including at least one of a location energy cost and a location power level and providing, via the transport, a needed amount of energy to the charging station at the location based on the status of the charging station.

Transport-based energy allocation

An example operation includes one or more of providing electricity to a vehicle by a plurality of elements in a battery, determining an element of the plurality of elements is operating below a threshold, disabling the element, and providing the electricity by remaining elements of the plurality of elements.

Vehicle battery element management

An example operation includes one or more of determining objects to be delivered by a group of vehicles, and choosing a vehicle of the group of vehicles with a most degraded battery to transport a heaviest object of the objects.

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