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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2018
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
David Michael Herman, Southfield, MI (US);
Nicholas Scheufler, Flat Rock, MI (US);
David A. Herman, Southfield, MI (US);
Nunzio DeCia, Northville, MI (US);
David Joseph Orris, Southgate, MI (US);
Stephen Jay Orris, Jr., New Boston, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A network of electric vehicle chargers is provided. The network may include a controller that, responsive to data indicating a threshold risk of utility grid power loss in a defined geographic area, broadcasts commands summoning vehicles in the defined geographic area to travel to and charge via the network, and prioritize charging of the vehicles at the network according to charge state data such that the vehicles having lowest state of charge are charged first.