MUMBAI, India, Aug. 8 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517066836 A) filed by Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, on July 14, for 'provision of charging plans for electric vehicles.'

Inventor(s) include Nakao, Ryohei; Vinoth, Kumar N; and Yamauchi, Shin.

The application for the patent was published on Aug. 8, under issue no. 32/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A computer-implemented method of providing optimised future charging plans (70) for charging batteries (91) of electric vehicles (90) of a fleet of electric vehicles (90) using electric vehicle chargers (81). The method comprises the steps of: obtaining respective future travel plans (10) for the electric vehicles (...