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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2013
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Erica Klampfl, Canton, MI (US);
Ryan Abraham McGee, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Daniel Reich, Royal Oak, MI (US);
Perry Robinson MacNeille, Lathrup Village, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle system enabling a processor to calculate the most efficient route to a destination based on estimated energy usage, vehicle data, and other inputs until the final destination is reached. The vehicle system may receive location related data that may include the current vehicle location and one or more destination points. The vehicle system may receive one or more energy usage affecting parameters from a vehicle related system. The system may calculate a most efficient route based on the location related data and the one or more energy usage affecting parameters and present the most efficient route to a device. The vehicle system may repeat the steps of receiving, calculating, presenting until a destination is reached.