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Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2023

Filed:

Feb. 05, 2020
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;

Inventor:

Yoshifumi Ota, Toyota, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/36 (2006.01); B60L 58/12 (2019.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3697 (2013.01); B60L 58/12 (2019.02); G01C 21/343 (2013.01); G01C 21/3469 (2013.01); G01C 21/3664 (2013.01); B60L 2240/70 (2013.01); B60L 2250/10 (2013.01); B60L 2260/52 (2013.01);
Abstract

An input of a destination and an input of a desired number of power supply facilities via which a vehicle travels on a route from a present location to the destination until an amount of power available becomes 0 are received. The number of facilities are selected and the route to the destination via the number of facilities is specified, the number of facilities being selected such that an amount of power with which the vehicle is able to travel a distance obtained by adding a margin distance to a distance to a farthest facility is less than the amount of power available when the route is specified. An alert is reported when the amount of power available is less than an amount of power required to travel the distance obtained by adding the margin distance to the distance to the farthest facility of the selected facilities.


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