Methods and systems for facilitating the trading of energy in a peer-to-peer manner and maintain a balanced supply of energy. The systems and methods may incorporate an electric meter coupled to an energy source and an energy load, along with an energy trading platform configured to establish a blockchain distributed ledger configured to record energy transaction between energy consumers and energy suppliers. The energy trading platform may receive notifications of available energy from energy suppliers, requests for energy from energy consumers, and a selection of an energy consumer to fulfill an energy request. In response to the selection, an energy transaction may be formed and executed via self-executing contract stored in the distributed ledger. In some cases, the systems and methods may incorporate a dynamic demand response system.

Embodiments relate to a system comprising: a first module. The first module comprises a power receiving module configured to receive an input power from an energy source. The system further comprises a second module. The second module comprises a power conversion module configured to convert the input power to an output power. The system further comprises a third module. The third module comprises a control module for configuring the first module or the second module to perform a charging operation or a discharging operation. The first module, the second module and the third module are functionally integrated in the system to perform multiple modes of the charging operation or the discharging operation. The third module controls an impedance of the input power and the output power in the second module.

Customizable electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) systems may be utilized for charging electrified vehicles. Exemplary EVSE systems may include a charging cord assembly having a cable that includes an outer sheath and a lighting module housed within the outer sheath. The lighting module may be controlled to emit lighting effects for providing visual indications of various electrified vehicle charging statuses. Settings associated with the lighting effects may be customized within a human machine interface (HMI) of the EVSE system.

An electric vehicle charging station management method using a blockchain is provided, including the following steps: obtaining a maximum charging and a discharging electric power of each electric vehicle in each to-be-planned pane; obtaining a charging and discharging electric power of each electric vehicle in each to-be-planned pane according to electric vehicle information corresponding to the electric vehicle, at least one purchase price, at least one winning bid price, and at least one maximum charging and discharging electric power; determining whether at least one overloaded pane is provided according to a total consumed electric power of a charging station in each time pane; and adjusting the purchase price of each overloaded pane when it is determined that at least one overloaded pane is provided and re-planning the charging and discharging electric power of the electric vehicle in each to-be-planned pane until it is determined that no overloaded pane is provided.

A method for optimizing dispatching of charging loads of electric vehicles to promote wind power consumption includes: acquiring blocked electric quantity of wind power at a peak down-regulation period; acquiring a curve of disorderly charging loads of the electric vehicles; establishing a model for optimizing the charging loads of the electric vehicles to promote wind power consumption, wherein an objective function of the model refers to that the electric vehicles participate in wind power consumption to minimize the remaining blocked quantity of the wind power, and the total charging cost of the electric vehicles is lowest, and acquiring constraint conditions of the model; and solving the optimization model by adopting an adaptive mutation particle swarm optimization algorithm, to obtain the target charging/discharging electric quantity and the target charging/discharging power of the electric vehicles.

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for transferring electrical power between an electrical power system of a vehicle and another device. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes a wireless transfer unit electrically coupled with a high voltage system of a vehicle and configured to enable wireless bidirectional power exchange between the high voltage system and an auxiliary device. The high voltage system is operable to power a drivetrain of the vehicle and the auxiliary device is separate from the vehicle and configured to at least one of provide electric power to and receive power from the high voltage system. A transfer control unit is configured to communicate with the wireless transfer unit and control at least one parameter specifying a transfer of electrical power between the high voltage system and the auxiliary device.

A cooperative control method for an energy conversion apparatus is disclosed. The cooperative control method includes: acquiring a target heating power, a target driving power, and a target charging and discharging power; acquiring a first heating power of a motor coil according to the target charging and discharging power; acquiring a second heating power of the motor coil according to the target driving power; adjusting a first quadrature axis current and a first direct axis current to a target quadrature axis current and a target direct axis current when a difference between a sum of the first heating power and the second heating power and the target heating power is not within a preset range, to cause the difference between the sum of the first heating power and the second heating power and the target heating power to be within the preset range; and acquiring a sampling current value on each phase coil and a motor rotor position, and calculating a duty cycle of each phase bridge arm in a reversible pulse width modulation (PWM) rectifier.

A method of charging a battery of a subject electric air includes determining whether a second electric air vehicle is using supply equipment cooperating with an access point, based on occupation information received from the access point; when it is determined that the second electric air vehicle is not using the supply equipment, charging a high-voltage battery equipped in the subject electric air vehicle with power supplied from the supply equipment after the electric air vehicle moves to the access point and lands at a designated landing point; when charging of the high-voltage battery is completed, receiving a movement limit speed of each of a plurality of movement intervals between other access points from the other access points disposed in a movement path of the subject electric air vehicle; and moving the subject electric air vehicle in the movement intervals based on the respective movement limit speeds.

An apparatus for charging a battery of an electric air vehicle includes a transceiver to perform wireless communication with an access point connected to supply equipment, an on-board charger connected to the transceiver, and a high-voltage battery charged based on control by the on-board charger. The on-board charger exchanges information, associated with charging reservation, with the supply equipment via the transceiver and the access point based on a first wireless communication scheme and exchanges information, associated with a charging performance state, with the supply equipment based on a second wireless communication scheme.

A controller, a system including such a controller, and a method for controlling or managing discharge or charge of a plurality of battery packs are provided. The controller includes one or more processor and at least one tangible, non-transitory machine readable medium encoded with one or more programs configured to perform steps to determine a respective power discharge or charge for each battery packs based on characteristic data of each battery pack, a power demand, and the first weighting factor (a) and the second weighting factor (b) for power assignment based on voltage and state of charge of each battery pack. The controller provides signals with instructions to the plurality of battery packs and/or the one or more power converters for discharging power from or charging power to the plurality of battery packs.