Patent ID: 8933821
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: B60L,G01C,G06Q,G08G,Y02E,Y02T,Y04S

Abstract:
1. An information providing device comprising: a vehicle information acquiring section configured to acquire vehicle information of a plurality of vehicles; a charge history information acquiring section configured to acquire charge history information about charge history of a plurality of the vehicles; a charging facility information acquiring section configured to acquire charging facility information about a charging facility, which includes at least a position of the charging facility and a utilization status of the charging facility; a searching section configured to search, according to a request from a request vehicle, for a charging facility utilizable by the request vehicle, as an object charging facility; a vehicle determining section configured to determine, as a specific vehicle from among vehicles other than the request vehicle, a vehicle having a possibility of utilizing the object charging facility, based on vehicle information and/or charge history information of the vehicles other than the request vehicle; a utilization possibility predicting section configured to predict, as a utilization possibility, a possibility of the specific vehicle utilizing the object charging facility, based on vehicle information of the specific vehicle; and a providing section configured to provide information based on the utilization possibility to the request vehicle.