Patent ID: 11909019
Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLC
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
determining a conditioning time or a conditioning location to thermally condition a battery assembly prior to (a) a determined upcoming time in which the battery assembly will discharge energy to power one or more loads or (b) arrival of the battery assembly at an upcoming location at which the battery assembly will discharge energy to power the one or more loads;
selecting a first source of power to be used for thermal conditioning the battery assembly at the conditioning time or the conditioning location, the first source of power selected from among multiple different sources of power based at least in part on respective availabilities of the different sources of power for changing a temperature of the battery assembly at the conditioning time or the conditioning location; and
thermally conditioning the battery assembly at the conditioning time or the conditioning location using power from the first source of power.