Patent 11560064 was granted and assigned to Ford Motor Company on January, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A renewable energy charging system for increasing the charging efficiency of an autonomous vehicle includes a computer programed to predict, in a vehicle at a plurality of locations, an amount of power generation associated with each location. The computer selects one of the locations based at least on the predicted amounts of power generation and moves the vehicle to the selected location.