EV Energy Transactions Using AI Demand Prediction Modes

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing vehicle systems lack efficient methods for optimizing energy transactions based on energy demand and environmental impact, particularly in electric vehicles, which can enhance energy distribution and storage strategies.

Innovation Solution

Electric vehicles are equipped with AI models that predict future energy demand, allowing them to operate in cost-optimization or environmental-optimization modes, and execute energy transactions such as distributing to the grid, transferring to other EVs, or storing renewable energy, based on these predictions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If electric vehicles store and distribute energy based on predicted demand, then energy management efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases due to AI models and multiple operational modes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenergy management efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The AI model predicts future energy demand in advance, allowing the EV to proactively determine operational modes and execute energy transactions before actual demand occurs. This preliminary action enables optimized energy management by preparing energy distribution strategies ahead of time based on forecasted conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically switches between cost-optimization mode and environmental-optimization mode based on real-time energy demand conditions and AI predictions. This dynamic adaptability allows the EV to optimize energy transactions according to varying operational requirements, balancing complexity with improved energy management efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Loss of energy

If electric vehicles execute energy transactions based on AI predictions, then cost optimization is improved, but measurement precision requirements increase for energy demand prediction

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecost optimizationVSAvoidenergy demand prediction accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses AI models to continuously predict energy demand and receives feedback on actual energy demand conditions. This feedback loop allows the EV to refine its predictions and adjust operational modes to achieve better cost optimization while managing the precision requirements through iterative improvement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The AI model analyzes multiple parameters including energy demand patterns, cost factors, and environmental conditions to make prediction decisions. By changing and optimizing these parameters, the system achieves cost optimization while managing the complexity of measurement precision requirements through multi-parameter analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Object-affected harmful factors

If electric vehicles operate in environmental-optimization mode, then environmental impact is reduced, but energy transaction flexibility decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironmental impactVSAvoidenergy transaction flexibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically switches between cost-optimization mode and environmental-optimization mode based on real-time conditions and AI predictions. This dynamic capability allows the EV to reduce environmental impact when operating in environmental-optimization mode while maintaining overall transaction flexibility through mode switching, resolving the contradiction between environmental benefits and operational versatility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20250357760A1Electric vehicle based energy transaction
Publication Date: 2025.11.20 TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC
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AI summary

An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by an electric vehicle (EV), an energy demand of an electrical grid, wherein the EV is configured to store energy and to distribute the energy, determining, by the EV, an operational mode based on the energy demand, wherein the operational mode is at least one of a cost-optimization mode or an environmental-optimization mode, and executing, by the EV, an energy transaction based on the operational mode, wherein the executing comprises at least one of: distributing the energy from the EV to the electrical grid, transferring the energy from the EV to another EV, or storing by the EV additional energy from a renewable energy source, wherein a timing of the energy transaction is based on an execution of an artificial intelligence (AI) model that predicts a future energy demand of the electrical grid.