ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATION HOST DEFINABLE PRICING

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for pricing definable by hosts of charging stations for charging electric vehicles.SOLUTION: An electric vehicle charging station network includes multiple electric vehicle charging stations belonging to multiple charging station hosts. Each host controls one or more charging stations. A charging station network server provides an interface that allows each of the hosts to define one or more pricing specifications for charging electric vehicles on one or more of the electric vehicle charging stations belonging to that host. The pricing specifications are applied to the charging stations such that a cost of charging electric vehicles that use the charging stations is calculated according to the pricing specifications.