An embodiment vehicle power management apparatus includes a memory configured to store a threshold state of charge (SOC) and a processing device functionally connected with the memory, wherein the processing device is configured to set a power management mode to a camping mode, identify a battery SOC, identify whether the battery SOC is greater than or equal to the threshold SOC, and enter the camping mode to allow an operation of a first vehicle function and limit an operation of a second vehicle function in response to the battery SOC being greater than or equal to the threshold SOC.

Methods and systems are provided for cloud processing data streamed from a vehicle and a home (e.g., any location) associated with a user account. One method includes receiving a data stream from the vehicle entity, where the data stream from the vehicle entity includes metadata from one or more data producing objects of the vehicle entity. And, receiving a data stream from the home entity, where the data stream from the home entity includes metadata from one or more data producing objects of the home entity. The method includes accessing action conditions associated with a user account. The action conditions identify a position where at least one or more states of the metadata from each of the home entity and the vehicle entity intersect. And, each action condition identifies a type or types of control information to be processed. The method includes processing the received metadata from the vehicle entity and the home entity. The processing identifies metadata of the home entity and the vehicle entity that includes an intersection of said at least one or more states of said respective metadata of the home entity and the vehicle entity. The intersection is indicative that a specific action condition being satisfied. The method includes sending, in response to the specific action condition being satisfied, control information to the user account. The logic associated with the user account determines when the control information is sent to the vehicle entity or the home entity for surfacing information or making a setting regarding the satisfied specific action condition. Intersections can also be identified with user devices that may be associated with the user account.

Disclosed is a system and a method of controlling a battery connection of an electric vehicle. The system for controlling a battery connection of an electric vehicle, the system including: a battery unit including a plurality of battery packs; a power relay assembly (PRA) for electrically connecting or disconnecting the battery unit and an inverter, and changing a connection structure of the plurality of battery packs to one of a battery unit serial mode and a battery unit parallel mode through a plurality of relays; and a controller for switching the connection structure to the battery unit serial mode through the PRA in response to a driver's request to increase motor output, and switches the connection structure to the battery unit parallel mode through the PRA in response to a driver's request to increase a cruising distance.

Battery swapping methods, apparatus, systems, devices and media are provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure. The method includes: receiving a battery swapping request of a vehicle; determining a second battery swapping time and a second swapping electricity amount based on a first battery swapping time and a first swapping electricity amount, in a case where a first charging parameter is adjusted to a second charging parameter to charge an available battery of a battery swapping station; and sending a battery swapping response to a terminal device of the vehicle, wherein the battery swapping response includes the second battery swapping time and the second swapping electricity amount, the second battery swapping time is a recommended battery swapping time provided by the battery swapping station, and the second swapping electricity amount is a recommended swapping electricity amount provided by the battery swapping station.

A vehicle including an electric motor has improved operating performance of a brake lamp using regenerative braking. A method of controlling a brake lamp of the vehicle includes determining a tendency of a driver, calculating a corrected mass based on the determined tendency of the driver, and calculating corrected acceleration based on the corrected mass and regenerative braking torque of the electric motor. An on threshold is corrected based on a difference between a requested torque and the regenerative braking torque at a time at which an accelerator pedal is released, and the brake lamp is turned on based on the corrected on threshold and the corrected acceleration.

A regenerative braking torque control system of an electric vehicle, includes a travel information setting section selects a regenerative braking level in response to a driver’s input and setting at least one driving mode among a plurality of driving modes, an in-vehicle information detector which detects in-vehicle information corresponding to a number and in-vehicle positions of occupants seated on vehicle seats, and a controller which allows driving to be performed according to the regenerative braking level selected by the travel information setting section, the controller transferring motor torque responsiveness according to the number and the in-vehicle positions of the occupants detected by the in-vehicle information detector to a motor controller for driving the vehicle by reflecting the motor torque responsiveness on regenerative braking torque.

A control device controls a vehicle including a seat suspension which is provided between a chassis and a seat of the vehicle and restricts vibration and of which each of a spring constant and a damping coefficient is changeable and controllable. The control device detects, as vehicle information, a vehicle speed, an acceleration, a state of acceleration operation by a driver, a state of deceleration operation by the driver, and a state of steering by the driver. The control device determines, based on the vehicle information, whether the driver has driving preference of emphasizing the steering stability performance of the vehicle or driving preference of emphasizing the ride comfort performance of the vehicle, and, according to the determined driving preference, changes an acceleration of the seat by controlling the seat suspension.

Systems, methods, and at least one computer-readable medium for selecting a velocity profile for an electric vehicle. In some embodiments, a first parameter value may be determined for a road segment in a selection horizon, and a second parameter value may be determined for an energy storage device of the electric vehicle. The first and second parameter values may be used to predict a plurality of velocity profiles over the selection horizon, wherein each velocity profile is predicted based on a corresponding value of a variable relating to a driving style of a driver of the electric vehicle. An energy consumption cost and a travel time cost may be computed for each velocity profile. A velocity profile may be selected from the plurality of velocity profiles, based on the respective energy consumption costs and the respective travel time costs.

An optimization system includes a processor configured to receive one or more criteria for optimizing use of a power storage device in an application device, to receive data comprising at least one of user input(s), data from a cloud, and data regarding the application device, and to determine a charging/discharging profile for charging or discharging the power storage device from the received data based on the one or more criteria. The optimization system further includes an output configured to output the charging/discharging profile. The processor is configured to receive user feedback regarding the charging/discharging profile, machine learning data, big data, and/or a change regarding the optimization system and/or the application device, and to update the charging/discharging profile based on the received at least one of the user feedback regarding the charging/discharging profile, machine learning data, big data and the change regarding the optimization system and/or the application device.

A method of operating a vehicular system includes charging, by a controller and via an electric vehicle charge station, a low-voltage battery when a module powered by the low-voltage battery is awake and an SOC of the low-voltage battery is less than a threshold; and in response to the SOC exceeding the threshold, commanding by the controller the module to enter a sleep mode for a sleep duration defined by a power usage of the module such that as the power usage changes, the sleep duration changes.