Patent ID: 11912153
Assignee: POWER HERO CORP.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 16:
17. A system for managing a group of charging stations for at least one electric vehicle, comprising:
a central electric vehicle charger controller for controlling system operation located remotely from the at least one electric vehicle;
a plurality of charging units communicating with the central electric vehicle charger controller, wherein the plurality of charging units each further comprises:
charging circuitry for generating a charging current to the at least one electric vehicle responsive to power provided from a local power grid;
a connector providing the generated charging current from the charging circuitry to the at least one electric vehicle;
a battery charge controller for controlling a provisioning of electrical energy from the charging circuitry to a battery of the at least one electric vehicle and tracking a battery charging status;

a database associated with the central electric vehicle charger controller storing charger data on each of the plurality of charging units and stores current charging data on the at least one electric vehicle and stores vehicle data for the at least one electric vehicle;
a first interface within the central electric vehicle charger controller for enabling communication between the central electric vehicle charger controller and the plurality of charging units for charging the at least one electric vehicle;
a second interface within the central electric vehicle charger controller for enabling communications between the central electric vehicle charger controller and a plurality of mobile charging applications enabling finding of locations of at least one of the plurality of charging units and making of reservations with the at least one of the plurality of charging units;
wherein the central electric vehicle charger controller performs real-time determination of a closest charging unit of the plurality of charging units to the at least one electric vehicle responsive to the charger data and a current position of the at least one electric vehicle, wherein the central electric vehicle charger controller estimates a battery exhaustion time for the at least one electric vehicle and provides recommendation for charging units of the plurality of charging units for charging the at least one electric vehicle prior to battery exhaustion responsive to the current charging data and the estimated battery exhaustion time, further wherein the central electric vehicle charger controller further performs the real-time determination of the closest charging unit of the plurality of charging units based on the vehicle data to match brand specific electric vehicles with a brand compatible charging unit; and
wherein the central electric vehicle charger controller for enabling a user of one of the plurality of mobile charging applications to select the closest charging unit and make a reservation with the closest charging unit at a selected time period.