Methods, devices and computer programs for selecting a charging destination for charging an electric vehicle

Abstract

The present invention relates to methods, devices, and computer programs for selecting a charging destination for charging an electric vehicle. A method for selecting a charging destination for charging an electric vehicle comprises: obtaining (110) initial information about a driver's preferences regarding the selection of charging destinations; checking (120) whether the initial information about the driver's preferences meets a criterion, wherein the criterion is met if the initial information about the driver's preferences includes at least one predefined selection of the driver's preferences; if the criterion is not met, providing (130) one or more questions regarding at least one of the driver's preferences in natural language to the driver of the electric vehicle; and obtaining (132) one or more answers to the one or more questions in natural language.and supplementing (134) the first information about the driver's preferences based on the one or more responses, providing (150) the first information about the driver's preferences as part of an input for a language model, wherein the input further includes an instruction trained to cause the language model to produce an output containing information about at least one charging destination based on the instruction, the first information and a second piece of information about properties of charging destinations in an environment of the electric vehicle, and providing (160) the information about the at least one charging destination to the driver.

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