A computer system for enabling authentication and authorization of charging an at least partly electrically driven vehicle is provided. The computer system comprises processing circuitry to determine if at least one charging station associated with the vehicle supports a PnC feature for authentication and authorization of charging of the vehicle; when the at least one charging station supports the PnC feature, determine that the vehicle comprises one or more than one charging certificate that is compatible with the at least one charging station supporting the PnC feature; determine a possibility of success for each pair of charging station and charging certificate when the vehicle; and to select the pair having the highest possibility of success to be used for charging the vehicle.

When the destination is a battery charging facility (EVSE2), ECU acquires the first traveling time of the vehicle 1 from the current location to EVSE2 from the automotive navigation system, and calculates the second traveling time of the vehicle 1 required to reach the target temperature of the battery suitable for charging in EVSE2 by the heat generation of the battery by the traveling of the vehicle 1. ECU controls the temperature raising device to be in a ON condition based on a comparison between the first traveling time and the second traveling time.

A vehicle control apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor charges a battery used to drive a vehicle by charging or discharging, based on charge power, determines a route based on at least one location included in locations which are not medical facilities, but need to use medical equipment, determines an amount of power necessary to drive the vehicle along the route and use the medical equipment, provides use of the medical equipment at the at least one location or provides a user with a notification indicating that it is impossible to use the medical equipment at the at least one location, and delivers insufficiency of the charging remaining capacity or not to a control room which handles a situation causing the vehicle or a vehicle including medical equipment and different from the vehicle to reach at least one specified location.

Proposed are an article transport vehicle with a power operation function, an article transport system, and a method for operation of an article transport vehicle. More particularly, proposed is a technology that controls a traveling state and power operation of an article transport vehicle for each situation according to a traveling condition suitable for an energy storage means selected and mounted according to the requirements of an article transport system, thereby improving the operational efficiency of the entire article transport system.