A system may include a controller with one or more processors. The controller may determine the wheel size of a wheel of a vehicle during a trip. The one or more processors may communicate a message associated with the wheel size to an off-board device when the wheel size is below a threshold size.

A system for facilitating communication between a vehicle and a user includes a vehicle having a rechargeable battery and a communication and control subsystem. The communication and control subsystem is communicatively coupled to the battery to gather and transmit vehicle information, which may include battery information and a vehicle identifier. The system also includes a charging station having a charging station identifier and an electrical coupling between the charging station, a power source, and the vehicle. The electrical coupling is operable to charge the battery and includes a communicative coupling. The control subsystem is operable to receive communications from the user via the communicative coupling.

A control device for an electric bicycle includes a motor, a battery, a micro controller, an acceleration detector and a transmitter electrically connected to each other. A physical-condition monitor detects the rider's heart rate signal. A computer calculates an electric power consumption value from the micro controller, an acceleration value from the acceleration detector, and the heart rate signal to create a motor output adjustment signal which is created according to the practical conditions of the rider. The motor output adjustment signal is sent to the micro controller to adjust the output of the battery to the motor and the assistance force to the bicycle.

A control apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to determine whether to prohibit traveling of a vehicle on a wireless charging lane or a power reception of the vehicle from the wireless charging lane, based on: future action data; a fee to be generated when charging is performed by the wireless charging lane; and a fee to be generated when charging is performed by a charging facility adapted to perform the charging with the vehicle being stopped. The future action data is data on a future action estimated in consideration of an intention of a driver who drives the vehicle as an action to be performed in a future by the driver, and relates to an action of the driver to stop, in the future, at the charging facility.

Forms of the disclosure relate to a vehicle, a vehicle control system, a display apparatus for vehicle, a terminal apparatus and a control method of the vehicle. The control method of a vehicle comprises receiving an input of a charge request period after the vehicle is electrically connected to an external power source, determining a power distribution rate of a rechargeable battery and at least one of peripheral device based on the charge request period, displaying the power distribution rate, receiving an input of an adjustment command related to the power distribution rate and distributing and supplying a power, which is supplied to the vehicle, to at least one of the rechargeable battery or the at least one peripheral device, according to a power distribution rate that is adjusted based on the adjustment command.

A network may be configured to monitor the usage and location of mobile devices, such as electric vehicles, and to report the usage and location data to a third-party utility system. The network may also allow owners of the mobile devices to register their devices such that proximate third-party utility systems may utilize the storage capacity of their mobile devices, the electric vehicles, during peak production and to access stored charge during periods of excess consumption.

A method for ascertaining a state of an electric drive of a transportation device, in particular a bicycle. The method includes: providing sensor data from sensors of the drive, the sensor data indicating parameters of the drive if an instantaneous operating range of the drive and/or of the transportation device corresponds to a predefined operating range; storing such sensor data, as measuring sensor signals, which originate from sensors predefined for the predefined operating range; and recognizing a defect of the drive if at least one of the measuring sensor signals deviates from a predefined standard sensor signal by a predefined degree; as well as outputting a warning about the presence of the defect to a user of the transportation device.

A WPT method using a plurality of transmission coils may comprise checking an alignment state between a reception coil mounted on an electric vehicle (EV) and each of the plurality of transmission coils, may include selecting a transmission coil satisfying a predetermined alignment constraint among the plurality of transmission coils; and performing WPT to the reception coil using the selected transmission coil.

A system for facilitating communication between a vehicle and a user includes a vehicle having a rechargeable battery and a communication and control subsystem. The communication and control subsystem is communicatively coupled to the battery to gather and transmit vehicle information, which may include battery information and a vehicle identifier. The system also includes a charging station having a charging station identifier and an electrical coupling between the charging station, a power source, and the vehicle. The electrical coupling is operable to charge the battery and includes a communicative coupling. The control subsystem is operable to receive communications from the user via the communicative coupling.

In a motor vehicle, an accelerator operation amount is changed among a first region, a second region, and a third region. The motor vehicle is configured to perform a first control that applies a braking force to the vehicle when the accelerator operation amount is at least in the first region or in the second region or to perform a second control that applies a smaller braking force to the vehicle than the braking force applied by the first control when the accelerator operation amount is in the first region or in the second region. The motor vehicle is also configured to continue execution of the first control without changing over control to the second control, when an execution request for the second control is given during execution of the first control in the second region of the accelerator operation amount.