Lyft, Inc.

Scott McDaid

Adam Christopher Bender

Nikola Popov

Pierre Pellerey

Joseph Daniel Taylor

Chen-Yu Lin

Alexander Timothy Dixon

Jennifer Uang

Jordan Elias Brooks

Robert Andrew Ewaschuk

Ulhas Subramaniam

Dawei Liu

Motor control systems and methods for micromobility transit vehicles are provided. A micromobility transit vehicle may include an electric motor configured to drive a rotation of a wheel. The electric motor may include a plurality of windings and a plurality of switching circuits. The switching circuits may be configured to selectively direct current from a power supply through the windings to generate a torque by the electric motor to drive the rotation of the wheel in response to associated control signals. The switching circuits may be configured to passively bypass the windings in response to an interruption of the control signals. Depletion of the power supply may result in the interruption of the control signals.

Motor control systems and methods for micromobility transit vehicles

In one embodiment, an apparatus for docking vehicles includes a housing structure comprising two side portions and a top portion connecting the two side portions, the two side portions and the top portion forming a cavity for receiving a portion of a vehicle, an electrically-powered locking assembly, carried by the housing structure, for securing the housing structure to the vehicle in response to the portion of the vehicle being received by the cavity of the housing structure, an electrically-powered communication device, coupled to the housing structure, for enabling data communication over a network, and a solar panel, carried by an external surface of one of the side portions of the housing structure, for independently converting light received by the solar panel into electrical energy.

Vehicle docking structure with a solar panel

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Scott McDaid