Automated system for determining whether vehicle charge station is publicly accessible

JP Bucci, JT Pisz, BH Inouye - US Patent 7,986,126, 2011 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND 1. Technical Field This disclosure relates to electric vehicles and to electric
vehicle charge stations. 2. Description of Related Art Batteries in electric vehicles need to be …

Vehicle-to-anything application (V2Anything App) for electric vehicles

JC Ferreira, V Monteiro… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a mobile information system denominated as vehicle-to-anything
application (V2Anything App) and explains its conceptual aspects. This application is aimed …

Building a community of users for open market energy

JC Ferreira, AL Martins - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Energy markets are based on energy transactions with a central control entity, where the
players are companies. In this research work, we propose an IoT (Internet of Things) system …

Assessment of a battery charger for electric vehicles with reactive power control

V Monteiro, JG Pinto, B Exposto… - IECON 2012-38th …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Batteries of Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) have a
large potential not only to provide energy for the locomotion of these vehicles, but also to …

Batteries charging systems for electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles

V Monteiro, H Gonçalves, JC Ferreira… - New Advances in …, 2012 - books.google.com
Nowadays, energy efficiency is a top priority, boosted by a major concern with climatic
changes and by the soaring oil prices in countries that have a large dependency on …

A case study on the conversion of an internal combustion engine vehicle into an electric vehicle

D Pedrosa, V Monteiro, H Gonçalves… - 2014 IEEE Vehicle …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the conversion process of a traditional Internal Combustion Engine
vehicle into an Electric Vehicle. The main constitutive elements of the Electric Vehicle are …

Real-life comparison between diesel and electric car energy consumption

FP Brito, J Martins, DDR Pedrosa, VDF Monteiro… - 2013 - repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt
Vehicle electrification is one of the strategies with higher potential for increasing the
efficiency of vehicle powertrains, reducing the dependency on dwindling fossil fuel sources …

Mobi_System: A personal travel assistance for electrical vehicles in smart cities

JC Ferreira, JL Afonso - 2011 IEEE International Symposium on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work it is proposed the design of a mobile system to assist car drivers in a smart city
environment oriented to the upcoming reality of Electric Vehicles (EV). Taking into account …

Model predictive and SoC balancing control of a CHB inverter in battery energy storage application using reward functions

Y Zhao, X Wang, W Hu, R Yang… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents an improved model predictive current control algorithm combined with a
novel state of charge (SoC) balancing approach for a three‐phase cascaded H‐bridge …

Collaborative broker for distributed energy resources

JC Ferreira, AR da Silva, V Monteiro… - … Intelligence and Decision …, 2013 - Springer
In this work it is proposed the design of a system to handle Distributed Energy Resources
(DER), which is a new reality due to Electric Vehicles (EVs), Microgeneration (MG) and the …