Electric Vehicle Exchange Management System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electric vehicles with insufficient battery charge often struggle to reach user-desired destinations, posing challenges for renters who must return vehicles to rental companies, as existing technologies lack efficient solutions for managing battery range and exchange processes.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method for managing electric vehicle exchanges, which selects an available vehicle with a high exchange score to perform an exchange at a charging station, ensuring the exchanged vehicle can reach its destination, utilizing a network to send routing information and employing modules for user agreement, object detection, and damage assessment to facilitate seamless battery or vehicle exchanges.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If electric vehicles are rented with limited battery charge, then rental flexibility is improved, but the ability to reach user-desired destinations deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically matches vehicles with insufficient charge to suitable exchange vehicles based on real-time battery charge levels, user destinations, and vehicle availability. This dynamic matching enables flexible rentals while ensuring users can reach their destinations by exchanging vehicles en route.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a centralized computer-mediated exchange management system that acts as an intermediary between users with insufficient charge and available exchange vehicles. This intermediary coordinates exchanges at charging stations, enabling users to access extended range without directly managing battery charges.
2Length of moving object
If electric vehicle exchanges are implemented, then destination reachability is improved, but system complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides self-service exchange management where users can initiate exchange requests through user interfaces, and the computer automatically selects suitable exchange vehicles and coordinates exchanges. This automation reduces operational complexity while enabling extended travel ranges.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors battery charge levels, user destinations, and vehicle availability, using this feedback to dynamically optimize exchange matching. This feedback loop simplifies management by automatically adjusting exchanges based on real-time conditions rather than requiring complex manual coordination.
3Ease of operation
If vehicle exchange is prioritized over recharging, then user convenience is improved, but battery management efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary routing calculations to identify optimal exchange locations at charging stations along user destinations. By planning exchanges in advance rather than reacting to battery depletion, the system improves user convenience while ensuring batteries are exchanged at strategically optimal points.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the operational parameter from battery charging to vehicle exchange, allowing users to obtain immediate range extension without waiting for recharging. This parameter change prioritizes user convenience by eliminating wait times while the underlying battery management system tracks and optimizes charge-deplete cycles.
Data Source
AI summary
Managing an electric vehicle exchange is provided. An available electric vehicle having a highest exchange score is selected to perform an exchange at a selected charging station with another electric vehicle that has an insufficient battery charge level to reach a travel destination of the another electric vehicle. In response to determining that a current battery charge level of the available electric vehicle is sufficient to reach the travel destination of the another electric vehicle, it is determined whether the exchange will allow the available electric vehicle to reach a travel destination of the available electric vehicle. In response to determining that the exchange will allow the available electric vehicle to reach the travel destination of the available electric vehicle, routing information is sent via a network to a navigation system of the available electric vehicle to the selected charging station.