Patent ID: 9225188
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: B60L,H01M,H02J,Y02E,Y02T,Y04S

Abstract:
1. A charge system that charges a battery, comprising: a power storage portion that stores system power supplied from an electric power company and discharges stored power; a charge portion that charges the battery by means of system power supplied from the electric power company or the power charged in the power storage portion; and a control portion that controls a charge into the battery by the charge portion, a charge and a discharge of the power storage portion; wherein in a case where a higher power rate is set as a consumption amount of the system power per each unit time duration becomes larger, the control portion uses the system power supplied from the electric power company to start at least one charge, which is performed from the charge portion into the battery, within a first unit time duration, thereafter, ends the at least one charge within a second unit time duration that follows the first unit time duration, and uses the system power supplied from the electric power company to charge the power storage portion within at least one time span of a time span from a start time point of the first unit time duration to a start time point of the battery charge and a time span from an end time point of the battery charge to an end time point of the second unit time duration.