Patent ID: 7925426

Claim:
A method of managing the power consumption of a vehicle, comprising: (a) a computer device receiving a route; (b) said computer device segmenting said route into segment destinations; and (c) said computer device for each of said segment destinations: (i) calculating an optimized speed by minimizing power consumption over said segment destination, wherein information is (j) information about the external environment of a vehicle, (jj) information about the operational status of the vehicle, (jjj) one or more user command inputs, or (jv) one or more operational parameters of the vehicle are received as input to said calculating and analyzed by one or more processors; (ii) calculating a probable speed; (iii) determining an efficient speed based on said optimized speed and said probable speed; and (iv) applying the calculated power corresponding to said determined efficient speed to the vehicle engine to travel said segment destination.