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Mobile car Charger It is unlikely that all cars parked in the parking garage will be electric vehicles, therefore a scheme can be implemented in which each electric car owner purchases or rents their own mobile charger. These chargers will essentially be flat mobile robots (similar to robotic vacuum cleaners or robots used at Amazon warehouses) that store charge in a rechargeable battery and release it into the car battery at a later stage. They will charge at docking stations situated throughout the garage (if it is a large garage) or in a single area (if it is a small garage). Charging may be done during off-peak periods to decrease the load on the electricity supplier, and to reduce electricity costs (if supplier offers off-peak discounts). When its battery is fully charged, each mobile charger will move to the allotted parking space of its "owner". It will have motion sensors and warning lights to detect and alert garage traffic of its presence. A mobile car charger can either have a socket into which the electric car can be plugged, or an induction pad if the car is equipped for induction charging. The mobile charger will stay in the parking bay until the owner plugs in his/her car for charging. The exact time at which the mobile charger charges the car battery, can be set via an app. Once charging of the car battery is done, the mobile charger rests and waits for the car to be unplugged. Once the car is unplugged, the mobile charger can make its way back to the charging station and the cycle continues… Other iterations of this idea, depending on level of complexity and cost constraints: 1. Parking spaces may be fitted with simple coupling devices (A device to form an interface between the mobile charger and the plug of the car charger). In this way, the car owner can plug the car into the coupling device at any time, even when the mobile charger is not present at the parking space, and the mobile charger can plug and unplug itself into/out of the coupler when it wants. This would also allow for one mobile charger to be shared between several car owners and the charging times can be coordinated between owners via app. 2. The car owner could purchase 2 batteries. Instead of having its own battery, the mobile charger would simply be a device to ferry the spare battery to the docking station, wait until it is charged and then bring it back to the parking space. The owner would then switch batteries manually when required. ... p.s. images don't seem to be displaying properly so i've reattached the title image in the gallery

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