Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nobuhisa Jingu

Shintaro Utsumi

Hirotsugu Ojima

Hiroki Murata

Kazuhito Sakai

Satoko Tofukuji

Atsunori Kumagai

Takanobu Arai

Motohiro Yuge

An electrically driven vehicle includes: a vehicle body; a first battery mounted in the vehicle body and usable for running; a generator unit that is detachably mounted in the vehicle body and charges the first battery; diagnosis means for diagnosing whether the generator unit is capable of generating power; and management means for performing a management of an amount of charge of the first battery according to a diagnostic result of the diagnosis means.

Electrically driven vehicle

An electrically driven vehicle equipped with a battery usable for running in which a power generation unit of engine driven type that charges the battery is detachably mounted on a vehicle body, includes including a first connection part that brings a high-voltage system in which the battery and the power generation unit are electrically connected together into a connected state in a state in which the power generation unit is mounted in a mounting position and brings the high-voltage system into a disconnected state in a state in which the power generation unit is dismounted from the mounting position, whereby the first connection part switches a connection state of the high-voltage system in accordance with installation or removal of the power generation unit. The first connection part includes a connector on the vehicle side and a connector on the power generation unit side.

An electrically driven vehicle includes a vehicle body, a battery that is mounted in the vehicle body and is usable for running, and a generator unit that is detachably mounted in the vehicle body and charges the battery, a first fuel tank that stores fuel supplied to the generator unit being provided in the vehicle body. The generator unit includes a generator-unit-side fuel tank that stores fuel of the generator unit, and a fuel pipe is provided so as to detachably connect a vehicle-side fuel tank and the generator-unit-side fuel tank.

Electric vehicle

In an electrically driven vehicle equipped with a battery usable for running, a power generation unit of engine driven type that charges the battery is detachably mounted on the vehicle including a case where at least an engine of the power generation unit is detachably mounted, and the vehicle includes first stop means for bringing the power generation unit in a stopped state when the power generation unit is installed in or removed from the vehicle, and a generation stop switch for making an operation request to the power generation unit. More specifically, the first stop means stops an operation request signal to the power generation unit through low-voltage system wires when the generation stop switch is ON (no operation request is made).

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Izunokuni, Japan

Nobuhisa Jingu