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Virtual charge for electric vehicles

  • US 9,527,398 B2
  • Filed: 01/20/2011
  • Issued: 12/27/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for adjusting a lower charge level threshold of an electrically-powered vehicle to allow a vehicle low on battery charge to continue to be operated at charge levels below a level at which the vehicle would have become inoperable absent the adjustment, the method comprising:

  • determining, by a processor, that the vehicle is likely to become inoperable as a result of a battery charge level fulfilling a condition selected from the group consisting of;

    the battery charge level coming within a predetermined range of a preconfigured lower charge level threshold, the battery charge level meeting a preconfigured lower charge level threshold, and the battery charge level falling below a preconfigured lower charge level threshold; and

    lowering, by a processor, the lower charge level threshold of the vehicle'"'"'s battery from the preconfigured lower charge level threshold to a second lower charge level threshold.

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