A fleet management system for ensuring the optimum efficiency and the most cost-effective operation of one or more hybrid electric vehicles. Each vehicle comprises a control system 100 configured to monitor, control, and optimise the management of the powertrain of the vehicle. The fleet management system comprising, a communications system for sending and receiving operational data and a fleet operations controller to increase efficiency, durability and to monitor cost of the fleet. The vehicle may use a fuel cell which can be fuelled by hydrogen. The system may use a simulation model 120 & 150-170 and utilise model predictive control.
A system for hybrid electric vehicle fleet management
2023-10-18
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | G05D SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES , Systeme zum Steuern oder Regeln nichtelektrischer veränderlicher Größen / B60W CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION , Gemeinsame Steuerung oder Regelung von Fahrzeug-Unteraggregaten verschiedenen Typs oder verschiedener Funktion |