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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2015
Tesla Motors, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Andrew D. Baglino, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thorsten Hayer, Burlingame, CA (US);
Brennan Boblett, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Matthew Fox, Woody Creek, CO (US);
Vineet H. Mehta, Mountain View, CA (US);
Keijiro Ikebe, Cupertino, CA (US);
Kevin Hsieh, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Craig B. Carlson, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jeffrey B. Straubel, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Tesla, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes: receiving information corresponding at least to (i) a state of charge of an energy storage of a vehicle, (ii) route information corresponding to a planned driving route for the vehicle, and (iii) a predicted driver characteristic; determining using the received information, and presenting to a driver of the vehicle, a first energy-versus-distance measure for the planned driving route; receiving a user input indicating a proposed change in at least the driver characteristics, and determining using the received information and the user input, and presenting to the driver, a second energy-versus-distance measure for the planned driving route that takes into account the proposed change.