Patent ID: 8812188
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: B60L,G01R,Y02T,Y04S

Abstract:
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 configured to supply battery electric power to each of the vehicles, the vehicle electric power management apparatus configured to collect information on a residual amount of useable vehicle-mounted battery electric power, and a terminal unit configured to receive the residual-power information from the vehicle electric power management apparatus, the vehicle electric power management apparatus comprising: vehicle information storing unit configured to hold internally the information relating to the residual available electric power of each vehicle; search unit for a user, before changing vehicles at one of the facilities to travel therefrom to a destination, configured to retrieve the residual-power information from the vehicle information storing unit and to search for a vehicle having a residual amount of available electric power sufficient for traveling through a distance to the destination; processing unit configured to calculate 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 unit configured to deliver, 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.