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

Claim 2:
3. A method comprising:
determining predicted ambient temperatures at one or more of (a) upcoming times or (b) upcoming locations that a vehicle is to travel to or through, the vehicle having one or more loads that are at least partially powered by a battery assembly onboard the vehicle;
determining a duty cycle of the battery assembly for the vehicle at each of the one or more of the upcoming times or the upcoming locations;
determining respective availabilities over time of multiple different sources of power to power a heating and/or cooling assembly onboard the vehicle to thermally condition the battery assembly; and
determining a temperature pre-conditioning plan for the battery assembly based on the predicted ambient temperature, the duty cycle of the battery assembly, and the respective availabilities of the different sources of power, the temperature pre-conditioning plan including one or more of:
first and second conditioning times during which the battery assembly is heated or cooled ahead of the one or more of the upcoming times or the upcoming locations, or
first and second conditioning locations where the battery assembly is heated or cooled ahead of the one or more upcoming times or the upcoming locations, and

wherein the temperature pre-conditioning plan dictates, based on the respective availabilities of the multiple different sources of power to change the temperature of the battery assembly, that an off-board charging source of the multiple different sources of power is selected to power the heating and/or cooling assembly to change the temperature of the battery assembly at one or more of the first conditioning time or the first conditioning location, and an onboard source of the multiple different sources of power is selected to power the heating and/or cooling assembly to change the temperature of the battery assembly at one or more of the second conditioning time or the second conditioning location.