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Patent US10180333
Issued 2019-01-15
Crowd-sourced Electric Vehicle Charging Station Identification
A vehicle computer system includes a processor configured to receive a destination, to output a charging station location for display in response to an estimated SOC being less than a threshold and the location being within a pre-defined distance from a vehicle, and to not automatically output the location otherwise such that as a difference between the SOC and threshold increases, the pre-defined distance increases.
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- 1. A vehicle computer system, comprising:
a wireless transceiver configured to communicate vehicle route information and vehicle battery information with a charging station; and a processor configured to receive a destination, to output a charging station location for display in response to an estimated state of charge (SOC) is below a threshold and the charging station location being within a pre-defined distance from a vehicle route to the destination, wherein the pre-defined distance is defined by a user of a vehicle and is configured to automatically adjust based on the vehicle's SOC, and to not automatically output the charging station location otherwise such that as the SOC is both below the threshold and the charging station location is further from the vehicle than the pre-defined distance, wherein the pre-defined distance is configured to automatically increase as the SOC increases.
- 9. A system comprising:
a processor configured to automatically to send vehicle route and battery information to a selected charging station using a wireless transceiver and output a charging station locations on a vehicle display when a state of charge (SOC) of a vehicle battery is below a threshold and within a pre-defined distance of a vehicle route, wherein the pre-defined distance is user defined and configured to automatically increase based as the SOC increases.
- 13. A method in a battery-electric vehicle, comprising:
automatically outputting a plurality of charging stations on a vehicle display in response to an estimate state of charge (SOC) of a battery being below a threshold and within a pre-defined distance of a vehicle route to a destination and not outputting the plurality of charging stations on the vehicle display in response to the estimate SOC being above the threshold, wherein the pre-defined distance is defined by a user of the battery-electric vehicle, wherein the pre-defined distance automatically increase as the SOC increases; receiving input of a selected charging station selected from the plurality of charging stations; sending vehicle route information and vehicle battery information to the selected station using a wireless transceiver.
