Vehicle charging and discharging method for electricity trading and v2g system using same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2024286519-A1
Application number	US-202318369318-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 18, 2023
Priority date	Feb 27, 2023
Publication date	Aug 29, 2024
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method of controlling vehicle charging and discharging for electricity trading and a V2G system using the same includes obtaining information for selling electricity, the information including an electricity unit cost by time, determining whether to sell electricity of a vehicle and an amount of electricity available to be sold based on the information for selling the electricity of the vehicle, and transmitting the electricity from the vehicle to a grid based on a result of whether to sell the electricity of the vehicle and the amount of the electricity available to be sold.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method of controlling vehicle charging and discharging for electricity trading, the method comprising:
obtaining information for selling electricity, the information including an electricity unit cost by time; determining whether to sell electricity of a vehicle and an amount of electricity available to be sold based on the information for selling the electricity of the vehicle; and transmitting the electricity from the vehicle to a grid based on a result of whether to sell the electricity of the vehicle and the amount of the electricity available to be sold.

2 . The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the determining of whether to sell the electricity of the vehicle and the amount of the electricity available to be sold further includes determining whether to sell the electricity based on vehicle environment parameters, and wherein the vehicle environment parameters includes vehicle state information and vehicle surrounding environment information.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the vehicle state information includes battery efficiency of the vehicle, battery state information, engine state information, and motor state information.

4 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the vehicle surrounding environment information includes weather information.

5 . The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the determining of whether to sell the electricity of the vehicle and the amount of the electricity available to be sold further includes determining whether to sell the electricity based on driving condition parameters, and wherein the driving condition parameters includes at least one of an expected electricity usage amount for a day, a minimum required electricity amount, a required electricity amount margin, a weather-dependent battery usage margin, or a combination thereof in the vehicle.

6 . The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the determining of whether to sell the electricity of the vehicle and the amount of the electricity available to be sold further includes determining whether to sell the electricity based on sales feasibility parameters, and wherein the sales feasibility parameters includes at least one of battery discharging efficiency, battery charging efficiency, discharging efficiency by solar power generation, or a combination thereof.

7 . The method of claim 6 , wherein, in the determining of whether to sell the electricity of the vehicle and the amount of the electricity available to be sold, a profit when selling the electricity is determined based on the sales feasibility parameters, and based on a result of determining the profit, whether to sell the electricity is determined, and
the profit when selling the electricity is determined based on at least one of the battery discharging efficiency, the battery charging efficiency, solar power generation efficiency, the amount of the electricity available to be sold, or a combination thereof.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the amount of the electricity available to be sold is determined based on an amount of electricity charged in a battery of the vehicle, an expected electricity usage amount for a day, a minimum required electricity amount, a required electricity amount margin, and a weather-dependent battery usage margin.

9 . The method of claim 7 , wherein, in the determining of whether to sell the electricity of the vehicle and the amount of the electricity available to be sold, the electricity of the vehicle is determined to be sold only when a condition in which a value obtained by subtracting the battery charging efficiency from a sum of the battery discharging efficiency, and the solar power generation efficiency is greater than or equal to a preset threshold value is satisfied.

10 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the weather information is received from a weather information server.

11 . A Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) system comprising:
a vehicle for obtaining and transmitting vehicle state information to a server and transmitting electricity to a grid; and the server for determining whether to sell the electricity of the vehicle and an amount of the electricity available to be sold based on the vehicle state information and additional information for selling the electricity, the additional information including an electricity unit cost by time, wherein the vehicle is configured to transmit the electricity to the grid based on whether to sell the electricity and the amount of the electricity available to be sold.

12 . The Vehicle-to-Grid system of claim 11 ,
wherein the server is configured to determine whether to sell the electricity based on vehicle environment parameters, and wherein the vehicle environment parameters includes the vehicle state information and vehicle surrounding environment information.

13 . The Vehicle-to-Grid system of claim 12 , wherein the vehicle state information includes battery efficiency of the vehicle, battery state information, engine state information, and motor state information.

14 . The Vehicle-to-Grid system of claim 12 , wherein the vehicle surrounding environment information includes weather information.

15 . The Vehicle-to-Grid system of claim 11 ,
wherein the server is configured to determine whether to sell the electricity based on driving condition parameters, and wherein the driving condition parameters includes at least one of an expected electricity usage amount for a day, a minimum required electricity amount, a required electricity amount margin, a weather-dependent battery usage margin, or a combination thereof in the vehicle.

16 . The Vehicle-to-Grid system of claim 11 ,
wherein the server is configured to determine whether to sell the electricity based on sales feasibility parameters, and wherein the sales feasibility parameters includes at least one of battery discharging efficiency, battery charging efficiency, discharging efficiency by solar power generation, or a combination thereof.

17 . The Vehicle-to-Grid system of claim 16 ,
wherein the server is configured to determine a profit when selling the electricity based on the sales feasibility parameters, and based on a result of determining the profit, is configured to determine whether to sell the electricity, and wherein the profit when selling the electricity is determined based on at least one of battery discharging efficiency, battery charging efficiency, solar power generation efficiency, the amount of the electricity available to be sold, or a combination thereof.

18 . The Vehicle-to-Grid system of claim 17 , wherein the amount of the electricity available to be sold is determined based on an amount of electricity charged in a battery of the vehicle, an expected electricity usage amount for a day, a minimum required electricity amount, a required electricity amount margin, and a weather-dependent battery usage margin.

19 . The Vehicle-to-Grid system of claim 17 , wherein the server is configured to determine to sell the electricity of the vehicle only when a condition in which a value obtained by subtracting the battery charging efficiency, from a sum of the battery discharging efficiency and the solar power generation efficiency is greater than or equal to a preset threshold value is satisfied.

20 . The Vehicle-to-Grid system of claim 14 , wherein the weather information is received from a weather information server.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Corp

Inventors

• Lee Tae Hyun
• Jeon Sung Bae
• Kim Dae Young
• Son Hui Un
• Lee Gyu Ri

Classifications

• Y02T90/167

  Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV] · CPC title

• Y02E10/50

  Photovoltaic [PV] energy · CPC title

• Y04S30/10

  Systems supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles · CPC title

• Y04S50/12

  Billing, invoicing, buying or selling transactions or other related activities, e.g. cost or usage evaluation · CPC title

• Y04S50/10

  Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid · CPC title