Inventors:
Richard M. Tyler - Evergreen CO, US
Daniel B. McKenna - Vail CO, US
James M. Graziano - Hotchkiss CO, US
International Classification:
H02J 7/00, H02J 7/14, B60K 6/20
US Classification:
320109, 320104, 320132, 320137, 320140, 320152, 903903, 903907, 180 6521
Abstract:
The E-Grid Sub-Network Load Manager operates to regulate the demands presented by vehicles to the associated Sub-Network thereby to spread the load presented to the service disconnect over time to enable controllable charging of a large number of vehicles. Load management can be implemented by a number of methodologies, including: queuing requests and serving each request in sequence until satisfaction; queuing requests and cycling through the requests, partially serving each one, then proceeding to the next until the cyclic partial charging service has satisfied all of the requests; ordering requests pursuant to a percentage of recharge required measurement; ordering requests on an estimated connection time metric; ordering requests on a predetermined level of service basis; and the like. It is evident that a number of these methods can be concurrently employed thereby to serve all of the vehicles in the most efficient manner that can be determined.