System and method for management of a fleet of vehicles having an energy storage system

摘要

A system and method for management of an energy storage system for a vehicle is disclosed. The energy storage system may comprise a battery system for a vehicle such as an electric vehicle or hybrid-electric vehicle. Vehicles may be in a group or fleet. The management system may be configured to use data and information available from data sources over a network or by instrumentation/sensors for vehicle systems. Data and information could be used in a system to manage the configuration and operation of the energy storage system and components, manage/control inventory and use/life-cycle of components, and/or aggregated/analyzed in analytics function for systems and components. Predictive control of the battery system may be implemented through a management system using data sources external to the vehicle. Inventive concepts and features of the systems and methods are indicated in the specification and FIGURES.

主权项

1. A method for management of a fleet of vehicles having vehicle systems including an energy storage system with at least one modular component comprising the steps of:
(a) operating a program on a computing system for management of the fleet of vehicles using data available by connectivity to data sources; (b) establishing connectivity to at least one data source providing data available to be used by the computing system; wherein management of the fleet of vehicles comprises use of considerations and data by the computing system for predictive management of the fleet of vehicles at least for (a) selection of vehicles to be deployed, (b) configuration of vehicles to be deployed, (c) assignment of duties to vehicles and (d) predicted conditions for operation of vehicles; wherein considerations for management of the fleet of vehicles comprise at least (a) predetermined objectives for management of the fleet of vehicles, (b) conditions of the duties of the fleet of vehicles and (c) configuration of the vehicle in the fleet; wherein a vehicle in the fleet is configurable with modular energy storage components as directed by the computing system for the vehicle to be operated for performance of a duty; wherein data for the computing system comprises at least data relating to (a) vehicles in the fleet (b) type of vehicles in the fleet, (c) configuration options for vehicles in the fleet and (d) duties to be performed by vehicles in the fleet; wherein predictive management comprises use of data from at least one data source external to vehicles in the fleet to operate vehicles in accordance with conditions predicted to be encountered by the vehicles in operation; so that the computing system uses considerations and data available by connectivity for management of the fleet of vehicles to configure a selected vehicle in the fleet based on predicted conditions of use of the selected vehicle and vehicles in the fleet are configured with modular energy storage components for performance of duties and assigned duties as directed by the computing system.