Patent ID: 9694700
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: B60L,G01C,G06Q,H02J,Y02T,Y04S

Claim:
1. A charging management system comprising: a vehicle information collection section configured to collect vehicle information including a battery remaining level, a current location, and a destination for each of a plurality of electric vehicles; a facility information collection section configured to collect facility information including locations of charging facilities for the electric vehicles on a road; a calculation section configured to: (a) calculate, for each of the electric vehicles, a time of arrival at each of the charging facilities related to a path to the destination and an estimated value for the battery remaining level in a case of arrival at the charging facility, based on the information collected by the vehicle information collection section and the information acquired by the facility information collection section, and (b) calculate, based on the calculated battery remaining level, candidates for a charging facility utilization of which is to be recommended which are included in the charging facilities related to the path to the destination of each of the electric vehicles and an estimated duration from a time when an electric vehicle having arrived at each of the charging facilities starts charging and until the charging is complete; a determination section configured to determine the charging facility the utilization of which is to be recommended to be one of the charging facilities related to the path to the destination which has a shortest maximum wait time from a time when the plurality of electric vehicles arrive at the charging facility until the charging is complete, based on a determination result from the calculation section; and a notification system configured to report information indicative of the charging facility determined by the determination section to the electric vehicle not having arrived at the charging facility.