Hitachi, Ltd.

Yuzuru Fukuda

Yuichi Kobayashi

Masamori Kashiyama

Masaki Hasunuma

A vehicle drive support system, and its method, includes a storage apparatus for storing charging station information to manage attribute information containing position information of charging stations, a communication apparatus for receiving a route search request containing an origin, a destination, and a residual quantity in a battery from a mobile and transmitting a response to the route search request, and a route search processing unit for searching a route passing through the charging stations while maintaining a state in which the residual quantity in the battery is greater than 0 between the origin and the destination by using position information of the charging stations contained in the charging station information in response to the route search request received by the communication apparatus, and giving the searched route as the response to the route search request.

Vehicle operation support system and vehicle operation support method

System for providing information on power consumption amount of electric vehicle includes receiving means for receiving departure point of the electric vehicle and destination of the electric vehicle from a terminal device; a database which stores a plurality of power consumption amounts required to move between respective two sections, corresponding to combinations of two sections, the combinations including a combination of a first section in a predetermined area including the departure point and the destination, and a second section including a second point in the predetermined area; extracting means which retrieves the database to thereby extract a power consumption amount required to travel from the departure point to the destination; and transmitting means for transmitting information on the power consumption amount extracted by the extracting means to the terminal device.

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Urayasu, Japan

Yuzuru Fukuda