Patent ID: 11858371
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  Y | IPC B  H

Claim 8:
9. A power management apparatus that regulates supply and demand of a power grid by issuing to an electrically powered vehicle including a power storage, a request for charging of the power storage with electric power of the power grid or power feed to the power grid, the power management apparatus comprising:
a selector that selects a target number of electrically powered vehicles from a vehicle group including a plurality of electrically powered vehicles;
a request processor that issues the request to each electrically powered vehicle selected by the selector, wherein
the selector obtains a temperature and an SOC of the power storage of each electrically powered vehicle included in the vehicle group and makes selection in accordance with a priority predetermined based on the temperature of the power storage and the SOC of the power storage; and
an exclusion processor that excludes an electrically powered vehicle that satisfies a prescribed exclusion requirement from the vehicle group, wherein
when the request processor issues a request for immediate execution of charging of the power storage or power feed to the power grid, the exclusion processor excludes an electrically powered vehicle not connected to the power grid from the vehicle group prior to the selection by the selector.