CPC B60L 53/62 (2019.02) [B60L 53/30 (2019.02); B60L 53/66 (2019.02); B60L 58/13 (2019.02); G01C 21/3469 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |
1. A method for managing a fleet of electric vehicles in a target area, comprising:
dividing the target area into one or more geographic portions;
assigning one or more nodes to each geographic portion;
simulating a plurality of trips of a plurality of simulated electric vehicles through the target area, each trip comprising a series of the nodes between a start node and an end node;
tracking, during each simulated trip, depletion of a charge of each simulated electric vehicle, based on a vehicle dynamics model of the electric vehicle and a battery dynamics model of the electric vehicle executed by a computer; and
identifying hotspots as areas of the target area wherein the charge of vehicles tends to be below a predetermined threshold.
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