Patent ID: 7603211

Claim:
A vehicle preferential treatment system comprising: an electrically powered vehicle; and a server capable of communicating with said electrically powered vehicle, wherein said electrically powered vehicle includes: an electric storage; a motor generating a driving force of the vehicle by using electric power from said electric storage; an estimation unit estimating a state of charge of said electric storage; a first transmission unit transmitting a state quantity estimated by said estimation unit to said server; a first reception unit receiving information on a predetermined preferential treatment with respect to the electrically powered vehicle from said server; and a display unit displaying the received information, and said server includes: a second reception unit receiving said state quantity from said electrically powered vehicle; a determination unit determining whether to give said predetermined preferential treatment to said electrically powered vehicle based on said state quantity; and a second transmission unit transmitting the information on said predetermined preferential treatment to said electrically powered vehicle based on a determination result by said determination unit, the predetermined preferential treatment corresponding to allowing the electricity powered vehicle to access a preferred lane among a plurality of lanes on a single roadway.