CPC G01C 21/3469 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3461 (2013.01); G01C 21/3617 (2013.01); G01C 21/3691 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A navigation and charging station recommendation system for an electric vehicle, the system comprising:
memory storing instructions executed by a processor to receive an origination point and a destination point from a user and determine and suggest charging station locations to the user traveling from the origination point to the destination point based on time and distance considerations, charging hardware capability and availability considerations, and user preference attributes received from the user;
the memory storing instructions executed by the processor to determine an ordered list of scored charging station locations by applying a vector space model to required attributes collected from the electric vehicle, charging point attributes collected from charging stations, and preferred attributes collected from the user, wherein an initial ordered list of scored charging station locations based on primary dimensions is refined to form an optimized ordered list of scored charging station locations using secondary dimensions as feedback to the vector space model;
a display operable for displaying the optimized ordered list of scored charging station locations encompassing the suggestions to the user.
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