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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2013
Bloom Energy Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
K. R. Sridhar, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Stuart Aaron, Los Altos, CA (US);
Arne Ballantine, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Peter Light, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Reynolds, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ramesh Srinivasan, Chennai, IN;
Ranganathan Gurunathan, Chennai, IN;
BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for charging electric vehicles includes receiving information regarding an electric vehicle. At least a portion of the information is received through a vehicle interface configured to place a battery of the electric vehicle into electrical communication with a fuel cell system. A charge is delivered from the fuel cell system to the battery of the electric vehicle through the vehicle interface without use of a direct current to alternating current (DC/AC) converter. The charge is delivered based at least in part on the information.