Patent ID: 9694684
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: B60L,B60W,Y02T

Claim:
1. A method implemented by a control module coupled to an electric motor and an internal combustion engine of a vehicle to provide priority based power management of off-board devices being power by the vehicle, comprising: determining, via the control module, an operating mode of the vehicle, the operating mode being an electric operating mode or a fossil fuel operating mode; determining, via the control module, a current state of charge (SOC) of a battery pack of the vehicle; supplying power at a maximum load of each of the off board devices when the current SOC of the battery pack is above a predetermined threshold value when the vehicle is operating in the fossil fuel operating mode; applying, via the control module, at least one priority to each of the off-board devices when the vehicle is operating in the electric operating mode; when the current SOC of the battery pack is above the predetermined threshold value and the vehicle is operating in the electric operating mode, powering the off-board devices based on the priority of the off-board devices; and when the current SOC of the battery pack falls below the predetermined threshold value and the vehicle is operating in the electric operating mode, removing power from individual off-board devices based on the priority of the off-board devices until the current SOC of the battery pack rises above the predetermined threshold value.