Patent ID: 11909010
Assignee: nan
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  G  Y | IPC B  G  H

Claim 14:
15. A vehicle charger for charging a battery of a vehicle, the vehicle charger comprising:
a display mounted within the vehicle;
a controller onboard the vehicle and coupled to the display, the controller configured to
begin an active charging session of the battery based on a programmed manner of charge and at least one condition, the programmed manner of charge starting charging of the battery in response to the at least one condition being met,
calculate an amount of time required to charge the battery, and
display, during the active charging session but before starting charging of the battery according to the at least one condition, the amount of time upon the display; and

a receiver electrically coupled to the controller;
wherein the controller onboard the vehicle is further configured to repeatedly update the amount of time upon the display during the active charging session, and
wherein the controller onboard the vehicle is further configured to, responsive to data received from another controller remote from the vehicle and the vehicle charger via the receiver, to change a charging state of the vehicle charger by at least one of a group consisting of increasing a rate of charge of the battery, decreasing a rate of charge of the battery, starting battery charging, or stopping battery charging.