Dynamic EV Battery Health Recommendations

Abstract

Prolonging the lifetime of batteries in Electric Vehicles (EVs) becomes a more and more important issue for private users and fleet operators. In addition to the environmental point of view, a better battery health results in less cost, higher battery capacities and higher performance. To achieve this, the EV drivers or the fleet operators need to get proper information, which kind of actions will increase or decrease the batteries health. To this point, various tips and recommendations exist distributed over literature. Unfortunately, those kind of recommendations are hard to follow in the day-to-day routine. This paper suggests so called dynamic recommendations for battery health that are able to advise the user in specific situations with respect to battery use. Recommendations from literature are broken down into a list, which can be automatically computed. Recommendations will then be dynamically created in the current context of the EV and displayed to the user just in time.