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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2024
Filed:
May. 31, 2022
Applicant:
GM Cruise Holdings Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventor:
Kenneth Ramon Ferguson, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Assignee:
GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01); B60L 58/12 (2019.01); B60L 58/13 (2019.01); B60L 58/16 (2019.01); G01R 31/392 (2019.01); G01R 31/36 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 58/12 (2019.02); B60L 58/13 (2019.02); B60L 58/16 (2019.02); G01R 31/392 (2019.01); H02J 7/00036 (2020.01); H02J 7/0048 (2020.01); H02J 7/005 (2020.01); B60L 2240/70 (2013.01); G01R 31/36 (2013.01); Y02T 90/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is disclosed herein examples of system and procedure for assigning state-of-charge profiles to vehicles to extend battery lives of batteries of the vehicles. Determining an optimal state-of-charge profile for the vehicle may take into account battery degradation of the battery of the vehicle and/or characteristics of an operational assignment to which the vehicle is being assigned. The state-of-charge profiles assigned to the vehicles may extend the battery life of the battery of the vehicle and reduce battery replacements of the battery.