Published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, CarBuzz has discovered a patent filed by Ford for technology that aims to allow multiple electrified vehicles to charge on a single charger. In essence, this takes the idea of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication and combines it with bidirectional charging technology in order to allow multiple battery-electric vehicles (BEV) or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) to be charged at once in order of preference or simultaneously, or even individually. There are numerous potential benefits and drawbacks to the idea that we'll get into later, but first, let's take a look at how it would work.
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