Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Trevor Van Loosbroek

Timothy Harris

Haider Mhiesan

Bidirectional energy transfer systems are provided for transferring energy between an electrified vehicle and other structures. The bidirectional energy transfer system may include a home energy management system having a dark start energy storage resource. The home energy management system may enter hibernation mode when the dark start energy storage resource reaches a low power state. The home energy management system may subsequently exit hibernation mode using a variety of recovery strategies when the electrified vehicle returns to the structure or near when the vehicle is expected to return to the structure. Placing the home energy management system in hibernation mode ensures that the dark start energy storage resource will have a sufficient amount of energy for powering system loads necessary to initiate the energy transfer from the vehicle to the structure during the grid power outage.

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Rochester, MI, United States of America

Trevor Van Loosbroek