Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Tsuyoshi Nishioka

Yu Nagata

Kazutaka Kimura

Tomokazu Maya

Yuki Yamashita

Takaharu Tateishi

An information processing apparatus includes a control section. The control section predicts an amount of electricity demanded for charging of vehicles that a plurality of users use, respectively, and determines a time slot in which the amount of electricity demanded exceeds a threshold value, and when the control section determines that one user of the plurality of users will refrain from use of the relevant vehicle on the following day, makes charging of the one user's vehicle wait in the time slot and provides an incentive to the one user.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, program and vehicle

A server device includes a communication unit and a control unit that send and receives information to and from another device via the communication unit. The control unit receives, from a plurality of terminal devices, information indicating a boarding point at which a user of each of the terminal devices desires to board a vehicle, sends, to the vehicle, information for causing the vehicle to travel along a route via a nearby region of each of a plurality of the boarding points while satisfying a predetermined condition, and notifies the terminal devices of the route.

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Toyota, Japan

Tsuyoshi Nishioka