Patent ID: 11970081
Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  Y | IPC B  H

Claim 13:
14. A vehicle comprising:
a first battery;
a second battery;
a first switching element configured to supply or cut off a first charging current supplied to the first battery from an external charger connectable to the vehicle;
a second switching element configured to supply or cut off a second charging current supplied from the external charger connectable to the vehicle;
a third switching element coupled between the first battery and the second battery, the third switching element configured to electrically connect and disconnect the first battery and the second battery to and from each other; and
a controller configured to:
control the first switching element, the second switching element, and the third switching element in order to selectively charge at least one of the first battery or the second battery,
when a charging amount of the first battery is different to a charging amount of the second battery, variably adjust via the first switching element a magnitude of the first charging current supplied to the first battery from the external charger connectable to the vehicle or variably adjust via the second switching element a magnitude of the second charging current supplied to the second battery from the external charger connectable to the vehicle so that the charging amount of the first battery is equal to the charging amount of the second battery.