Patent ID: 11921511
Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 7:
8. A system comprising:
a plurality of electric vehicle charging stations;
a communications interface to:
transmit an instruction to a vehicle to capture data describing equipment, the equipment comprising at least a portion of one of the plurality of electric vehicle charging stations, the vehicle comprising at least one sensor for capturing the data, and
receive, from the vehicle, data captured by the at least one sensor, the data describing a current state of the equipment;

an equipment analyzer to:
compare the received data describing the current state of the equipment to a model of the equipment, the model describing an expected state of at least the portion of the electric vehicle charging station, and
determine, based on the comparison, that the equipment differs from the expected state; and

a vehicle manager to transmit an instruction to a second vehicle to use an alternate one of the plurality of electric vehicle charging stations to service the second vehicle.