Patent ID: 11904717
Assignee: BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  Y | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A system for preconditioning a battery pack of a vehicle to support fast charging, comprising:
a processor;
a memory in communication with the processor, the memory storing a plurality of instructions executable by the processor to cause the system to:
detect a trigger that indicates the vehicle will be traveling or the battery pack of the vehicle has been reduced to a predetermined capacity;
collect a plurality of samples of real-time current location data of the vehicle;
convey the plurality of samples to a journey management machine learning model;
predict, using the journey management machine learning model, a plurality of destinations of the vehicle based on the plurality of samples;
determine, using a propensity to charge machine learning model, a propensity of a user to fast charge the vehicle based on the predicted plurality of destinations and one or more of:
the user's distance traveled in the vehicle since a last known charging event,
whether other users are present in the vehicle with the user, or
the user's historic fast charging behavior;

receive, via an analytics cluster, charging station availability data that indicates whether one or more charging stations are available; and
schedule preconditioning of the battery pack based on determining:
a charging station is available based on the charging station availability data for one of the plurality of predicted destinations, and
the predicted user's propensity to fast charge the vehicle at the one of the plurality of predicted destinations.