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

Claim 1:
2. A system comprising:
a controller configured to control a heating and/or cooling assembly onboard a vehicle to thermally condition a battery assembly onboard the vehicle, the controller configured to determine a conditioning time at which the heating and/or cooling assembly thermally conditions the battery assembly prior to the vehicle reaching an upcoming location that the vehicle is to travel to or through, the controller configured to determine the conditioning time based at least in part on both 1) a predicted or measured ambient temperature at the upcoming location and 2) an actual or expected duty cycle of the battery assembly while the vehicle is at the upcoming location, and,
the controller is configured to determine respective availabilities over time of multiple different sources of power to power the heating and/or cooling assembly, the controller configured to select a first source of power from the multiple different sources of power to power the heating and/or cooling assembly to thermally condition the battery assembly at the conditioning time based at least in part on the availability of the first source of power indicating that the first source of power is available to change the temperature of the battery assembly at the conditioning time.