Patent ID: 7835860

Claim:
A control information output device for a vehicle, the device comprising: a travel route accumulating unit configured to accumulate as travel route information a place of departure, a destination, information that specifies a travel route, and a travel frequency of the specified travel route; a destination assuming unit configured to assume a destination when a driving start position is considered as the place of departure based on the accumulated travel route information; a route assuming unit configured to assume an expectable travel route from the driving start position to the assumed destination, based on the accumulated travel route information; a road characteristic storing unit configured to store road characteristic information for each predetermined road unit; an additional road characteristic storing unit configured to store, as road characteristic additional information for each predetermined road unit, at least a consumed electric energy actually measured in a travel of the vehicle; and a control information outputting unit configured to read, road characteristic information corresponding to the assumed travel route and additional characteristic information corresponding to the assumed travel route from the road characteristic storing unit and the additional road characteristic storing unit, respectively, the control information outputting unit being further configured to output the read road characteristic information corresponding to the assumed travel route and the read additional road characteristic information corresponding to the assumed travel route, to predetermined equipment as control information.