A vehicle-grid integration management system determines use of a power grid by an electric vehicle in a dual multi-part rate structure including a grid account portion associated with a relationship between the electric vehicle and the power grid, a group account portion associated with a relationship between the vehicle group and the electric vehicle and/or the power grid, a consumption portion associated with a volume of electricity drawn from the power grid by the electric vehicle over a time period, a supply portion associated with a volume of electricity delivered to the power grid by the electric vehicle over the time period, a demand portion associated with an upper threshold of electricity drawn from the power grid by the electric vehicle over the time period, and a capacity portion associated with an upper threshold of electricity delivered to the power grid by the electric vehicle over the time period.

A vehicle includes: an on-board inverter that adjusts the voltage of an electric power; and a vehicle inlet. The vehicle inlet has a CS terminal through which a proximity detection signal for identifying the connection state between a discharge connector and the vehicle inlet is transmitted. An electronic control unit (ECU) includes a processor that selects the voltage of an electric power output from the on-board inverter. When the proximity detection signal is in a first bound (a fourth range or a fifth range), the processor selects AC 100V, and when the proximity detection signal is in a second bound (a fifth range or a sixth range) at least partially different from the first bound, the processor selects AC 200V higher than AC 100V.

A method controls the current output of a battery for driving a rail vehicle. A battery actual current I.sub.bat,ist passes via a converter to an asynchronous motor, being a drive for the vehicle. The battery actual current I.sub.bat,ist is set by control circuits as a function of a feedforward control torque M.sub.ff and a specified torque M.sub.tf. The feedforward control torque M.sub.ff is calculated using a transfer function H.sub.sys(z), which maps the torque setpoint value M.sub.soll onto the battery actual current I.sub.bat,ist as follows: I.sub.bat(z) H.sub.sys(z) M.sub.soll(z). Accordingly, a zero-point z=znmp, which lies outside the unit circle, is determined by the transfer function H.sub.sys(z). The feedforward control torque M.sub.ff is calculated as follows: M.sub.ff(z) I.sub.bat,neu(z)/(H.sub.sys(z) z) where: I.sub.bat,neu(z)=I.sub.bat,ideal(z) I.sub.bat,ideal(z=znmp) where: I.sub.bat,neu[n]=I.sub.bat,ideal[n] for all n>0, so that pole point/zero point cancellation is reached by z=znmp at the battery ideal current.

The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for controlling a voltage of an electric machine, applied to a vehicle having an electricity-generation-starting-up integrated electric machine, which relates to the technical field of vehicle controlling. The method includes: when the vehicle is in a voltage-controlling mode, acquiring a current battery voltage, a current battery electric current and an electric-current limit value of the vehicle; according to the battery voltage, determining an initial target voltage; according to a difference between the electric-current limit value and the battery electric current, determining a superposing-voltage value; based on the superposing-voltage value and the initial target voltage, determining a target controlling voltage; and based on the target controlling voltage, controlling the battery voltage of the vehicle.

A battery pack is provided that includes battery cell magazines and a battery management system to control charging and discharging of the associated battery pack. The battery cell magazines may include a magazine housing and associated battery cells. The magazine housing may define a plurality of battery cell recesses to receive the battery cells. The battery management system may be configured to balance the state of charge of a battery stack of battery packs. Methods for balancing a state of charge of battery packs of a battery stack are also provided, as are systems for lifting a battery stack.

A device for providing charging information for a charging process is configured to determine a total set of N data tuples for N different times of a charging time period for the charging process. A data tuple includes values of one or more characteristic variables relating to electrical energy that can be provided in the charging process. Furthermore, the device is configured to reduce the total set of N data tuples to a reduced set of M data tuples, with M<N, and to provide the reduced set of M data tuples for the determination of a charging plan for the charging process.

A vehicle includes a power storage device, a discharging port, a power conversion circuit, and a controller. The discharging port includes a first output terminal, a second output terminal and a ground terminal. Each of the first output terminal and the second output terminal is not grounded to a body of the vehicle. The controller is configured to obtain a requested voltage value of a discharging connector connected to the discharging port. When the discharging connector is connected to the discharging port, the controller controls the power conversion circuit such that a voltage corresponding to the requested voltage value of the discharging connector is applied between the first output terminal and the second output terminal.

A controller discharges a traction battery according to power limits defined by output that is indicative of a state of charge of the traction battery and is updated by a bar delta filter according to a balancing current. The balancing current is associated with each cell of a string of series connected cells of the traction battery and represents a deviation of an estimated current through the cell from a total current of the string.

A vehicle power system including a fuel cell auxiliary power unit for providing clean, efficient power to a vehicle. The system generally includes a fuel cell with a first DC output and a heat output, a pressure vessel adapted to contain and provide pressurized hydrogen to the fuel cell, an electrical storage unit with a DC input coupled to the first DC output of the fuel cell. The electrical storage unit also has a second DC output. An inverter is coupled to the second DC output of the electrical storage unit to receive power, the inverter having a first AC output. The system can provide heat, AC power, and DC power to the vehicle.

Embodiments described herein relate to predicting the utilization of electric vehicle (EV) charge points. Methods may include: receiving an indication of a plurality of candidate locations for EV charge points; determining static map features of the plurality of candidate locations; inputting the plurality of candidate locations and static map features into a machine learning model, where the machine learning model is trained on existing EV charge point locations, existing EV charge point static map features, and existing EV charge point utilization; determining, based on the machine learning model, a predicted utilization of an EV charge point at the plurality of candidate locations; and generating a representation of a map including the plurality of candidate locations, where candidate locations of the plurality of candidate locations are visually distinguished based on a respective predicted utilization of an EV charge point at the candidate locations.