APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR INTEGRATING ELECTRIC VEHICLE COMPONENTS WITH VEHICLE CHARGING NETWORK

摘要

An electric or hybrid-electric vehicle incorporating: a vehicle battery adopted to store electrical power; a battery charger electrically coupled to the battery and configured to perform charging of the vehicle battery from an external power source; and a battery management system electrically coupled to the vehicle battery and the battery charger and configured to manage a state of the vehicle battery. At least one of the battery, the battery charger or the battery management system provides an application programming interface accessible, via a data network, by an application program executing on a remote control server. The application programming interface may be used for obtaining various data from the vehicle, such as vehicle battery cost of control, and/or for controlling one or more parameters of the respective electric vehicle components, such as reactive power of the battery charger.