A control device for a hybrid vehicle is provided with an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. The control device includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a controller. The acquisition unit acquires a plurality of pieces of vehicle information regarding the vehicle configured to be externally charged. The vehicle information includes information related to a destination of the vehicle. The determination unit determines whether or not the hybrid vehicle is externally charged at the destination based on at least one piece of vehicle information regarding a same-destination vehicle including at least one of a vehicle having the same destination as the hybrid vehicle and a vehicle that has arrived at the destination of the hybrid vehicle. The controller controls the hybrid vehicle in accordance with a result of the determination by the determination unit.

An information processing device includes a control unit configured to determine whether to include a regenerative brake in specifications of a proposed vehicle based on regenerative brake operation data acquired while a first vehicle including the regenerative brake is traveling in a predetermined area. The proposed vehicle is a vehicle proposed as a vehicle for a customer to drive in the predetermined area.

A management system includes a controller that selects a power transmission vehicle from an electrified vehicle group. A storage amount of an electricity storage device loaded in each electrified vehicle increases or decreases between maximum and minimum storage amounts. When the maximum storage amount and a current storage amount currently stored in the electricity storage device are a first storage amount and a second storage amount, a reference storage amount set between the maximum and minimum storage amounts is a third storage amount, a surplus storage amount obtained by subtracting the third storage amount from the second storage amount is a fourth storage amount, and a ratio of the fourth storage amount to the first storage amount is a surplus storage amount ratio, the controller determines a rank of each electrified vehicle in descending order of the surplus storage amount ratio and selects the power transmission vehicle based on the rank.

An information processing device includes a control unit configured to determine whether to include a regenerative brake in specifications of a proposed vehicle based on regenerative brake operation data acquired while a first vehicle including the regenerative brake is traveling in a predetermined area. The proposed vehicle is a vehicle proposed as a vehicle for a customer to drive in the predetermined area.

An information processing apparatus includes a controller that creates an electrical energy consumption map, for an autonomous vehicle, indicating electrical energy consumption of links in an operation route defined by an operation plan, calculates, based on the map, a first predicted value of total electrical energy consumption required for traveling the operation route, and compares the total electrical energy consumption indicated by the first predicted value with a SOC prior to operation of the vehicle, and when the SOC prior to operation does not satisfy the total electrical energy consumption, extracts links satisfying a predetermined condition as candidate links for switching to a manual driving section from among links designated as an autonomous driving section and changes the operation plan so that the SOC prior to operation satisfies the total electrical energy consumption by switching at least one of the extracted candidate links to the manual driving section.

Systems and methods for providing instructions associated with directions to a destination are disclosed. In some embodiments, an electric vehicle transmits a request for directions to a destination. The electric vehicle receives instructions, which are determined based on battery state-of-health of the electric vehicle, associated with the directions to the destination. The directions comprise an itinerary determined in accordance with the battery state-of-health.

A system and method for adjusting an electric vehicle charging speed that include determining that an electric vehicle arrives at a charging station and determining a plurality of pricing schemes that are respectively associated with a plurality of charging speed tiers that pertain to respective charging speeds to charge the electric vehicle by the charging station. The system and method also include presenting a pricing scheme user interface that enables an operator of the electric vehicle to select a desired state of charge to charge a battery of the electric vehicle. The system and method further include actuating charging by the charging station at an operator preferred charging speed tier that is respectively associated with a particular charging speed tier of the plurality of charging speed tiers based on a selection of the particular charging speed tier by the operator through the pricing scheme user interface.

A system and method can be used for finding available vehicular parking, providing a motorist with driving directions to a selected parking facility, and paying for the time that the vehicle remains parked in the facility without concern about a parking meter expiring or overpaying the meter.

The system and method can also be used to find and pay for other vehicular-related services, such as finding electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and paying for the EV charging cost, finding conventional gas station and paying for the fueling cost, and paying road tolls.

A system preconditions a battery pack of a vehicle to support fast charging. The system detects a trigger that that indicates the vehicle will be traveling or the battery pack of the vehicle has been reduced to a predetermined capacity. The system collects a plurality of samples of location data of the vehicle. The system predicts a destination of the vehicle based on the samples. The system determines a propensity of a user to charge the vehicle based on previous charging behavior of the user. The system determines a confidence score of the predicted destination and the determined propensity. The system determines whether to schedule preconditioning of the battery pack based on the confidence score meeting a threshold.

A vehicle charging control system and a method therefor are provided. The vehicle charging control system includes a vehicle that identifies whether a distance to empty (DTE) is changed based on charging at a location of a first charging station among at least one charging station. The vehicle transmits state information of the first charging station, which is obtained based on whether the DTE is changed, through a communication module. The system also includes a server that receives the state information of the first charging station from the vehicle and notifies the vehicle of whether the first charging station is available based on the state information of the first charging station.