Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Shinya Fujiwara

Eiji Nomura

Norihiko Hatsumi

Masaru Kadoi

Koichi Tano

Kazuya Koike

Kou Hei Umezu

A charge control apparatus for an electric vehicle that includes: a traction motor; a traction battery to which charging current is supplied from an external power source and that supplies current to the traction motor; and an electric device actuated by part of the charging current during charging of the traction battery is provided. The charge control apparatus includes: an instruction unit to instruct decrease of load of the electric device in case that the electric device is actuated during charging of the traction battery; a restriction unit to restrict the charging current after instruction of the decrease of load; and a load decreasing unit for decreasing load of the electric device after restricting the charging current.

Charge control apparatus and method for electric vehicle

An air-conditioning system of an electric car has an air-conditioning unit which is configured to perform air-conditioning in a passenger compartment by heater/cooler operation, a setting panel configured to set a target temperature of the passenger compartment, and a control unit which is connected to the air-conditioning unit and setting panel, and has different control of heater operation of the air-conditioning unit, wherein the control unit is configured to select controls of heater operation based on a vehicle speed v.

Air-conditioning system for electric car and method of controlling the air-conditioning system

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Tokyo, Japan

Shinya Fujiwara