Patent ID: 11958376
Assignee: FERMATA ENERGY LLC
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  Y | IPC B  H

Claim 0:
1. A method to protect battery health during bidirectional charging events, the method comprising:
receiving at a processor cycle life data, said cycle life data comprising one or more historical energy cycle events of one or more electric vehicle batteries;
determining anticipated energy needs of a building;
determining an amount of discharge of the one or more electric vehicle batteries required to offset the anticipated energy needs of the building by a predetermined amount;
determining based on the cycle life data whether discharging the one or more electric vehicle batteries by the predetermined amount will be harmful to the health of the one or more electric vehicle batteries; and
discharging the one or more electric vehicle batteries to offset the anticipated needs of the building if it is determined that discharging the one or more electric vehicle batteries by the predetermined amount will not be harmful to the health of the one or more electric vehicle batteries.