| 摘要 |
Systems and method are provided for providing auxiliary charge to a main battery of an electric vehicle. One system includes an auxiliary battery for holding a plurality of charge units, the auxiliary battery being connectable to the main battery of the electric vehicle, the plurality of charge units being rechargeable and being replaceable from within the auxiliary battery, such that replacing particular ones of the plurality of charge units with charge units with more charge increases a total charge of the auxiliary battery. Kiosks for storing a plurality of charge units. A display in the kiosk for an interface for enabling transactions to provide or receive charge units to customers, and a central processing center that communicates with a plurality of said kiosk over a network and a plurality of vehicles, The plurality of vehicles are provided with access to availability information of charge units at each of said kiosks. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method for providing information regarding batteries available for use by electric vehicles, comprising:
(a) providing access to a processing server that communicates over a network with,
(i) a plurality of kiosks having one or more batteries with charge available for exchange with batteries with reduced charge, the batteries of the kiosks being for use by the electric vehicles to power electric motors of the electric vehicles, each of the plurality of kiosks having a computer that is configured to communicate with the processing server;(ii) a plurality of user accounts that are accessible via computing devices of users for accessing the processing server, the plurality of user accounts being associated with users that registered to access the information regarding the batteries and enable access to exchange at least one battery at one of the plurality of kiosks; and (b) providing the processing server with access to a database that stores data or update data regarding one or more of the plurality of kiosks and the information regarding the batteries located and available at each of the plurality of kiosks; wherein the processing server receives requests from one or more of the plurality of user accounts via one or more computing devices to locate one or more kiosks proximate to a particular geo-location, and in response to each request, the processing server identifies at least one location having a kiosk proximate to the particular geo-location and identifies availability of batteries at the kiosk of the identified location, the processing server further identifying discounts or rates chargeable for batteries at the kiosk of the identified location; wherein each of the plurality of kiosks is part of a network of geographically dispersed kiosks that are each configured for communication availability of batteries to the processing server, the processing server communicates with respective computers of the plurality of kiosks to collect and receive information from each of the plurality of kiosks and to forward instructions to ones of the plurality of kiosks, wherein the instructions forwarded by the processing server include a reservation instruction for reserving at least one battery in response to the processing server receiving a reservation request for at least one battery of the batteries identified to be available, wherein the processing server is further configured to process requests for information regarding particular kiosks and provide data to enable generation of routing options to one or more of the plurality of kiosks, the requests being received by the processing server from one or more of the computing devices which include one or more of hand held-devices, or computers, or vehicle computers, or tablet computers, or smartphones; wherein the electric vehicles are one of a two-wheel vehicle, or a three-wheel vehicle, or a four-wheel vehicle, or a motorcycle, or a car, or a truck, or a pickup, or a utility car, or a delivery vehicle, or an industrial vehicle. |
