CHARGE STATION QUEUE MANAGEMENT

摘要

There is disclosed a method and a system for management of electric vehicle charging station queues. The method includes maintaining a plurality of requests to utilize the electric vehicle charging station in a queue defining an order of electric vehicles to be charged at the electric vehicle charging station and sensing that a charging vehicle at an electric vehicle charging station and associated with a first vehicle operator has completed a charging process. The method further includes notifying the first vehicle operator that the charging process is completed and providing an allotted vacation time period in which the first vehicle operator may vacate the charging vehicle from the electric vehicle charging station and increasing the cost associated with continued charging of the charging vehicle if the charging vehicle is not vacated from the electric vehicle charging station within the allotted vacation time.

主权项

1. A method of management of an electric vehicle charging station comprising:
maintaining a plurality of requests to utilize the electric vehicle charging station in a queue defining an order of electric vehicles to be charged at the electric vehicle charging station; automatically sensing that a first vehicle at the electric vehicle charging station and associated with a first vehicle operator has completed a charging process; notifying the first vehicle operator that the charging process is completed and providing an allotted vacation time period in which the first vehicle operator may vacate the first vehicle from the electric vehicle charging station; and automatically increasing the cost associated with continued charging of the first vehicle and enabling a second vehicle operator to anonymously contact the first vehicle operator to request that the first vehicle be moved if the first vehicle is not vacated from the electric vehicle charging station within the allotted vacation time.