Patent ID: 8768624
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: B60L,B60W,G01C,G05D,G08G,Y02T,Y04S

Abstract:
1. A vehicle drive support system which conducts route search from an origin to a destination by taking positions of charging stations for a battery mounted on a vehicle into consideration, the vehicle drive support system comprising: a charging station information processing unit; and a route search processing unit, wherein, the charging station information processing unit manages charging station information for managing attribute information containing position information of a plurality of charging stations, and wherein, when forming a route from the origin to the destination of at least one section having the origin or a waypoint as a start point and a waypoint or the destination as an end point, in route search from a start point of a section to an end point of the section, in order to cause a residual quantity in the battery at time when the vehicle has reached the end point to be at least a quantity with which the vehicle can travel to one of the charging stations, the route search processing unit executes selection of the charging station to be passed and searching of a route from the start point of the section to the end point of the section via the selected charging station by referring to the charging station information.