A vehicle charging station for use in transmitting charging power to an electric vehicle for use in charging the vehicle is configured to communicatively couple to the electric vehicle via a network connection to a wireless network provider and electrically couple to the electric vehicle via a connector. Vehicle charging station is further configured to receive a unique identifier from the electric vehicle via the network connection, deliver a quantity of electrical charging power to the electric vehicle via the connector, and meter the quantity of electrical charging power delivered to the electric vehicle.

System and method for electric vehicle charging and billing using a wireless vehicle communication service

An electric vehicle charging station network includes multiple electric vehicle charging stations belonging to multiple charging station hosts. Each host controls one or more charging stations. A charging station network server provides an interface that allows each of the hosts to define one or more pricing specifications for charging electric vehicles on one or more of their electric vehicle charging stations belonging to that host. The pricing specifications are applied to the charging stations such that a cost of charging electric vehicles using those charging stations is calculated according to the pricing specifications.

Electric vehicle charging station host definable pricing

A vehicle charging station for use with a system for transmitting charging power to an electric vehicle is configured to receive a unique identifier from the electric vehicle and determine a preferred electrical charging power provider based on the identifier. Vehicle charging station is further configured to determine an account associated with the preferred provider and with the identifier, deliver a quantity of electrical charging power to the electric vehicle, and meter the quantity of electrical charging power delivered to the electric vehicle.

System and method for roaming billing for electric vehicles

A method, computer-readable medium, system, and apparatus for improving energy transfer with a vehicle are disclosed.

Energy transfer with vehicles

A solar canopy is provided where the solar canopy includes at least one photovoltaic cell to provide power. The power is used as a renewable power source for a station that comprises at least one wireless enabled processor. The wireless enabled processor detects and establishes a communication link with a mobile, wireless enabled, processor in a transmission range. Data is transmitted from the processor to the mobile wireless enabled device over the communication link where the data relates to information associated with local establishments, such as, for example, stores, restaurants, governmental agencies, or the like. The solar canopy also may be provided with the ability to couple to a battery, which may be a vehicle battery such as an electric car or electric scooter. The solar canopy would provide electrical energy either directly to the battery or through a power conditioner and, optionally, a storage facility.

Electric Vehicle Charging Station with Connectivity to Mobile Devices to Provide Local Information

An electric storage device of an electric powered vehicle is configured to be chargeable by a charging facility. At the time of external charge by the charging facility, a management server selects advertising information based on information stored inside the electric powered vehicle to be charged and/or information of the charging facility performing the external charge to the electric powered vehicle including a mechanism capable of reproducing the advertising information from an advertising provider, and transmits the selected advertising information. The management server performs billing so that in exchange for the transmission of the advertising information, at least part of a charging power fee is caused to be borne by the advertising provider side to thereby discount an amount borne by an electric powered vehicle user.

Charging system of electric powered vehicle

An ecological-point management system includes an electric powered vehicle, a charging facility, a communication network, a management server, point recipients each having a device capable of accessing the communication network. The electric storage device of the electric powered vehicle is configured to be chargeable by the charging facility. In the ecological-point management system, an ecological point in accordance with an amount of greenhouse gas emission that can be reduced by traveling using electric power by the electric powered vehicle is given to the point recipients. The point recipients can include an owner or a driver of the electric powered vehicle, and a manufacture, an installation personnel, an owner of the charging facility, and an owner of an installation place, and further a provider of the charging power.

Ecological-point management system

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To build a charging system which can give the incentive of external charge to an electric vehicle user SOLUTION: An accumulator 216 of the electric vehicle 200 is so constituted as to enable external charge by accumulating equipment 300 A managing server 410 selects advertisement information, based on information stored inside the electric vehicle 200 to be charged and/or information on charging equipment 300 which performs external charge, and transmits the selected advertisement information to the electric vehicle 200 which is equipped with a mechanism capable of regenerating advertisement information from an advertisement provider 420, at the time of external charge by the charging equipment 300 Then, the managing server 410 makes a charge such that it discounts the amount that the user of the electric vehicle bears by making the side of an advatisement provider 420 bear at least a part of charge power rate in exchange for transmission of advertisement information COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Kiichi Iwasaki

Papers

Charging system of electric powered vehicle

Ecological-point management system

Charging system for electric vehicle