A portable battery charger for charging a vehicle battery in an electric vehicle including: a housing; one or more charger batteries; charging and conditioning electronics configured provide an input to heat a battery core of the vehicle battery and/or one or more charging batteries to above a predetermined temperature at which the vehicle battery is more efficiently charged; and a controller configured to: determine whether a temperature of the vehicle battery and/or the one or more charging batteries are less than the predetermined temperature; control the charging and conditioning electronics to input the vehicle battery and/or the one or more charging batteries with the input when the temperature is determined to be less than the predetermined temperature; and charge the vehicle battery using the one or more charging batteries when the temperature rises above the predetermined temperature.
PORTABLE ALL-WEATHER ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGER AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE STARTER AND BATTERY CONDITIONER
2022-03-17
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | H02J CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER , Schaltungsanordnungen oder Systeme für die Abgabe oder Verteilung elektrischer Leistung / B60L PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES , Antrieb von elektrisch angetriebenen Fahrzeugen / H01M Verfahren oder Mittel, z.B. Batterien, für die direkte Umwandlung von chemischer in elektrische Energie , PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY |
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