Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Koichi Watanabe

Ryosuke Kobayashi

Yohei Nakanishi

Masaki Makihara

Masaki Nishino

Motofumi Kamiya

Jean-Sebastien Boire

Takuya Nishioka

Yuji Iwase

Kensei Hata

Yuta Oshiro

Yosuke Suzuki

Makoto Funahashi

Seitaro Nobuyasu

Shojiro Oya

A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate using the communication interface and transmit, to a vehicle to be charged, information on a travel route according to a position of the vehicle to be charged such that the vehicle to be charged, which travels using power of a battery, arrives at a power supply point to receive power supply a predetermined time period before a scheduled time for the power supply and temperature of the battery on arrival is a predetermined temperature.

Server apparatus and system

An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus includes receiving a request for charging that includes information indicating a destination from a user terminal, determining an operation plan of a power supply vehicle that includes transporting a user and a user vehicle toward the destination with supplying power to the user vehicle in response to the request for charging, and transmitting the operation plan to an operator terminal.

Information processing method

An information processing apparatus displays a screen for selecting a purpose of use and a starting point of use of a power supply vehicle on a terminal apparatus used by a user, acquires a purpose of use and a starting point of use selected by the user, determines the operation plan of the power supply vehicle so as to move the power supply vehicle to the acquired starting point of use and perform a power supply operation to supply power to a vehicle of the user in a case in which the acquired purpose of use is 'power supply', determines the operation plan of the power supply vehicle so as to move the power supply vehicle to the acquired starting point of use and transport the user in a case in which the acquired purpose of use is “taxi”, and transmits the determined operation plan to the terminal apparatus.

Method performed by information processing apparatus

An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to accept a reservation for use of a vehicle charging service from a user of a vehicle, notify the user of a first joining point and a first joining time as a target joining point and a target joining time at which the vehicle joins a power supply vehicle, determine whether the vehicle can arrive at the first joining point by the first joining time based on positional information and traffic congestion information for the vehicle, determine a second joining point closer to the vehicle than the first joining point upon determining that the vehicle cannot arrive, and notify the user of a proposal to change the target joining point to the second joining point.

Information processing apparatus and method

In a control system and a control method, an electronic control unit is configured to crank an engine by setting a clutch to a half engaged state in a state where operation of the engine is stopped during traveling. The half engaged state is a state where the clutch is engaged with a slip. The electronic control unit is configured to, after a rotation speed of the engine has reached an ignition permission rotation speed or higher, increase a transmitted torque capacity of the clutch to a transmitted torque capacity that satisfies the following conditions i) and ii): i) the transmitted torque capacity is larger than a transmitted torque capacity before the rotation speed of the engine has reached the ignition permission rotation speed; and ii) the transmitted torque capacity allows the clutch to be kept in the half engaged state.

Control system and control method

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Susono, Japan

Koichi Watanabe