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Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 01, 2021
Applicant:

Bp Pulse Fleet North America Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventor:

Ethan Shaotran, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

BP PULSE FLEET NORTH AMERICA INC., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01); B60L 53/66 (2019.01); B60L 58/24 (2019.01); B60L 53/30 (2019.01); B60L 53/62 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 53/66 (2019.02); B60L 53/305 (2019.02); B60L 53/62 (2019.02); B60L 58/24 (2019.02); H02J 7/00032 (2020.01); B60L 2240/80 (2013.01); B60L 2260/44 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of controlling battery preconditioning in a vehicle includes determining a first preconditioning characteristic of a first battery of a first vehicle relative to a charging station. The method further includes transmitting the first preconditioning characteristic. The method further includes receiving, from a second vehicle, a second preconditioning characteristic of a second battery relative to the charging station. The method further includes comparing the first preconditioning characteristic and the second preconditioning characteristic to determine a preconditioning ranking for the first vehicle and the second vehicle. The method further includes determining a queue of the first and second vehicles for the charging station using the preconditioning ranking of the first and second vehicles.


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