Patent ID: 11951864
Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  G  Y | IPC B  G  H

Claim 1:
2. The charging station monitoring system of claim 1, wherein, in the case that the available green energy of the charging station is not enough to fully charge the energy storage device, the charging assistance device is further configured to:
calculate a third recommended charging amount and a charging time required to charge the third recommended charging amount of energy, a sum of the second recommended charging amount and the third recommended charging amount being equal to the first recommended charging amount;
determine a set of charging stations within the predetermined distance;
estimate a total amount of green energy that can be provided by each charging station of the set of the charging stations during the charging time; and
generate a recommendation list including a recommended priority of each charging station of the set of the charging stations, the recommended priority being determined based on the estimated total amount of green energy and a distance between the current position of the electric vehicle and each charging station.