Connected Vehicle Emissions Monitoring for Real-Time Carbon Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gasoline-powered vehicles continue to emit significant greenhouse gases, and existing onboard carbon capture technologies are environmentally uneconomical, making it difficult to reduce emissions effectively, especially in light-duty vehicles.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for monitoring and minimizing vehicle carbon emissions using a connected vehicle device (CVD) that combines on-vehicle and off-vehicle data through a secure mobile network, enabling functions like driver feedback, routing optimization, and engine management to reduce emissions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-generated harmful factors
If onboard carbon capture technology is implemented in light-duty vehicles, then carbon emissions can be captured, but the process becomes environmentally uneconomical
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the carbon capture function from the vehicle itself and places it at a remote terminal. The vehicle only needs to transmit emission data, while the actual carbon capture and conversion processes occur at off-vehicle facilities, making the system economically viable.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a remote terminal as an intermediary between the vehicle and the carbon capture process. This mediator receives emission data from the vehicle and handles the carbon conversion operations, separating the economically burdensome capture process from the vehicle operation.
2Object-generated harmful factors
If electric vehicle electrification is pursued, then greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced, but adoption rates remain underwhelming in certain regions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables existing gasoline vehicles to reduce their own emissions through the remote carbon capture system, allowing them to serve their own environmental compliance needs without requiring transition to electric vehicles, thus maintaining versatility and improving adoption.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the approach from transforming the entire vehicle powertrain (as in electrification) to modifying the emission output parameters through remote capture and conversion, making the solution adaptable to existing vehicle fleets.
3Object-generated harmful factors
If more efficient engine systems are created to reduce emissions, then carbon emissions can be minimized, but the cost becomes unaffordable for most vehicle owners
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the expensive emission reduction function from the vehicle's engine system and relocates it to a remote terminal, allowing emission minimization without requiring costly modifications to the vehicle itself, thereby maintaining affordability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the carbon capture function at a remote terminal rather than implementing physical hardware modifications in each vehicle, reducing manufacturing costs while achieving the same emission reduction effect.
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AI summary
A system (1100) and method (810) for monitoring and minimizing vehicle carbon emissions is disclosed herein. The system (1100) comprises a mobile device (110) for a vehicle (1000), a connected vehicle device (135) comprising on-vehicle data for the vehicle (1000), and an off vehicle source (70) selected from a database (1125), a cloud source (1175), or a physical structure (1140). The mobile device (110) is configured to access and combine off-vehicle content (75) with on-vehicle data relating to carbon emissions, in order to enable, disable or manage at least one function of the vehicle (1000) over a secure wireless network (80).