EV Sharing Return Management via Charging Incentives
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Solution Overview
Problem
In electric vehicle sharing services, the inefficiency in managing the return and charging of electric vehicles leads to reduced management efficiency and increased costs due to users' lack of attention to charging returned vehicles, necessitating an effective charging management system.
Innovation Solution
An electric vehicle sharing service system that manages the return process based on charging conditions, providing benefits or penalties to users based on whether the electric vehicle is properly charged, including determining return conditions such as connection to a charger and battery power levels, and facilitating charging reservations through user equipment and electric chargers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users return electric vehicles without mandatory charging, then user convenience is improved, but charging management efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically detecting when a vehicle is returned and assessing its charging status. It proactively initiates charging processes or notifies users before the vehicle is fully returned, rather than waiting for manual charging requests. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining user convenience while ensuring charging needs are addressed in advance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms by monitoring vehicle charging status and providing real-time information to both users and management systems. When a vehicle is returned, the system feedbacks the charging status and automatically initiates appropriate actions (charging, notification, or approval), thereby maintaining high management efficiency without compromising user convenience.
2Reliability
If extra personnel are deployed for charging returned vehicles, then charging reliability is improved, but service cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service by automatically monitoring vehicle return status, assessing charging needs, and initiating charging processes without human intervention. The automated system reliably manages charging operations while eliminating the need for additional personnel, thereby maintaining charging reliability without increasing service costs.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical operations (personnel physically checking and charging vehicles) with an automated electronic monitoring and control system. This substitution maintains or improves charging reliability through continuous automated monitoring while significantly reducing the quantity of human resources required, thus lowering service costs.
3Reliability
If users are incentivized to charge returned vehicles, then charging compliance is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses feedback mechanisms to inform users about their charging compliance status and the impact on future service benefits. By providing clear, automated feedback about charging behavior and associated incentives, the system improves compliance without requiring complex manual evaluation processes, thereby managing system complexity effectively.
Solution Approach 2:
The system manages complexity by changing parameters such as benefit levels or penalty amounts based on charging compliance, rather than implementing complex procedural changes. These parameter adjustments automatically incentivize users to charge vehicles while keeping the underlying system structure relatively simple and易于 to manage.
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AI summary
The disclosure is related to managing an electric vehicle return process based on whether a return condition associated with an electric charging of a returned electric vehicle is satisfied. Furthermore, a benefit or a penalty may be given to a corresponding user according to whether the return condition associated with an electric charging is satisfied.