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VEHICLE ELECTRIC POWER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, VEHICLE ELECTRIC POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE ELECTRIC POWER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

  • US 20130218405A1
  • Filed: 08/21/2012
  • Published: 08/22/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A vehicle electric power management apparatus for a vehicle electric power supply system, the vehicle electric power supply system including vehicles each equipped with a battery, facilities each for supplying battery electric power to each of the vehicles, the vehicle electric power management apparatus for collecting information on a residual amount of useable vehicle-mounted battery electric power, and a terminal unit for receiving the residual-power information from the vehicle electric power management apparatus, the vehicle electric power management apparatus comprising:

  • vehicle information storing means for internally holding the information relating to the residual available electric power of each vehicle;

    search means for a user, before changing vehicles at one of the facilities to travel therefrom to a destination, to retrieve the residual-power information from the vehicle information storing means and search for a vehicle having a residual amount of available electric power sufficient for traveling through a distance to the destination;

    processing means for calculating a relative increment/decrement in the residual amount of available electric power between the vehicle that the user has traveled to the facility, and the vehicle searched for as a vehicle to be next used; and

    output means for delivering, as a notification to the user, information on the calculated increment/decrement in the residual amount of available electric power due to the vehicle change, and information on the vehicle to be next used, to the terminal unit.

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