WIRELESS VEHICLE ENERGY SHARING

摘要

Technologies are generally described for a distributed system to provide wireless energy sharing between electrically powered vehicles. In some examples, two or more vehicles traveling on a roadway may be configured to share energy while in route to a destination. The vehicles may be equipped with wireless energy transfer units to enable the vehicles to exchange energy. At least one of the vehicles may be a mobile electric charging station configured to store a large amount of charge and to provide charge to vehicles. The electric charging station may be in communication with a controller, where the controller may be configured to identify vehicles in need of recharge and to identify at least one vehicle having sufficient charge to share. The controller may schedule a time and place for the two vehicles to meet in order to share charge. Additionally, the vehicles may be self-coordinated without a controller.

主权项

1. A distributed system to provide wireless energy sharing within a vehicle convoy, the system comprising:
a charge vehicle communicatively coupled to a plurality of vehicles in the vehicle convoy, wherein the charge vehicle is configured to provide electrical energy to at least one of the plurality of vehicles and the plurality of vehicles are configured to be powered by electrical energy and are configured to recharge wirelessly while moving; and the at least one vehicle from the plurality of vehicles, which is configured to:
determine a situation for the at least one vehicle to receive a recharge;determine that the charge vehicle is capable to provide the recharge;position near the charge vehicle to wirelessly receive electrical energy for the recharge; andrecharge through wireless energy transfer from the charge vehicle.