Automatic and dynamic home electricity load balancing for the purpose of EV charging
View Patent ↗A charging station for electric vehicles receives customer bids on a charging time interval allotment, compares the customer bids, and supplies electric current from the charging station to a plurality of electric vehicles allocated to each electric vehicle according to the bids.
1. A charging station for electric vehicles, comprising:
a first input receive a plurality of customer bids on a charging time interval allotment; logic to compare the customer bids; a plurality of outputs to supply electric current from the charging station to a plurality of electric vehicles; and logic to allocate percentages of a total available current during the time interval allotment to each electric vehicle coupled to the plurality of outputs according to the bids.
2. The charging station of claim 1 , further comprising:
logic to receive an electricity sell-back rate from at least one of the electric vehicles; and a second input to draw current from a battery of the at least one electric vehicle, only if the electricity sell-back rate is lower than a rate for charging determined from one of the customer bids.
3. The charging station of claim 1 , further comprising:
a second input to receive current from at least one of the plurality of electric vehicles; and logic to allocate current to at least one of the plurality of electric vehicles, the allocated current including current received by the charging station from the at least one electric vehicle.