When an adjustment target road in which a state of charge of the battery needs to be actively adjusted such as a congested road or a downhill road has been detected in the travel route based on the look-ahead information, the travel support control device performs state-of-charge adjustment control up to the adjustment target road. The travel support control device detects the adjustment target road based on look-ahead information generated for an estimated route on which it is estimated that the hybrid vehicle is to travel when the travel route has not been set, and performs the state-of-charge adjustment control up to the adjustment target road when the adjustment target road has been detected. At this time, a detection range for detecting a congested road and a detection range for detecting a downhill road in the estimated route are different.

A vehicle control device includes at least one ECU configured to: when charging the first battery from the power generation device is possible and a restriction on operation of the power generation device is predicted during traveling, control the power generation unit such that the first battery is charged from the power generation device and control the power generation unit such that the second battery is charged in a case where an SOC of the first battery is equal to or higher than a threshold; and when the charging is not possible, the SOC of the first battery is equal to or lower than a threshold and an SOC of the second battery is equal to or higher than a threshold and the restriction is predicted during traveling, control the power generation unit such that the first battery is charged from the second battery.

A system and method for efficient (e.g., economical) computing in hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric vehicles is disclosed. A compute manager is configured to receive and schedule compute tasks for execution on computing cores in the vehicle to increase the usage of recaptured energy that would otherwise be wasted due to battery limitations. Vehicle status information such as current battery charge level and current route may be used to determine whether compute tasks can be beneficially executed.

An on-board electrical system includes a motor generator, a high-voltage battery, an electric power acquirer, an auxiliary subsystem, first and second step-down units, and a controller. The electric power acquirer is able to acquire electric power during travel of a vehicle, and able to feed acquired electric power to the high-voltage battery. The auxiliary subsystem includes an auxiliary battery and auxiliary machinery. The controller determines whether or not magnitude of a load on the auxiliary battery is equal to or greater than predetermined magnitude. On the condition that the magnitude of the load is equal to or greater than the predetermined magnitude, the controller allows electric power from the electric power acquirer to be fed to the auxiliary subsystem through the second step-down unit.

A vehicle includes a power unit, wherein the power unit includes an internal combustion engine and/or a power battery. The vehicle is provided with a living room mode, which can be activated in a parking state of the vehicle. When the living room mode is activated, the power unit of the vehicle can provide the vehicle with functions related to leisure, entertainment and/or office, but does not provide functions related to drive readiness.

There are provided a drive control device, a drive control method, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program that control driving of an electric vehicle includes: a map storage unit storing a plurality of battery correlation maps, the battery correlation maps corresponding to a plurality of battery deterioration states and defining a relationship of a charge state and a battery temperature with an internal resistance of a battery; a map selection unit configured to select one battery correlation map from among the plurality of battery correlation maps stored in the map storage unit based on a current deterioration state of the battery; and a motor output control unit configured to control an output of a vehicular electric motor driven by the battery based on the one battery correlation map selected by the map selection unit.

A battery box for electric or hybrid motor vehicles, comprising a peripheral frame which has a generally convex polygonal shape, a bottom part and a top cover; the bottom part being joined to a lower surface of the peripheral frame, said peripheral frame comprising at least an aluminum extruded element, bent in a single direction in at least a position along the extrusion longitudinal direction according an angle wherein said bent aluminum extruded element at the said position presents at least two different inner radii of curvatures.

A battery box for electric or hybrid motor vehicles, comprising a peripheral frame which has a generally convex polygonal shape, a bottom part and a top cover; the bottom part being joined to a lower surface of the peripheral frame, said peripheral frame comprising at least an aluminum extruded element, bent in a single direction in at least a position along the extrusion longitudinal direction according an angle wherein said bent aluminum extruded element at the said position presents at least two different inner radii of curvatures.

A power supply system for a battery system of a vehicle is provided. The power supply system includes: a switch control unit configured to control a power switch to switch an external load; an electronic unit; a first power supply electrically connected to the switch control unit and electrically connected to the electronic unit; a second power supply; and a switching unit. In a normal mode, the first power supply electrically supplies the electronic unit. The switching unit is configured to, in a cold crank mode: electrically disconnect the first power supply from the electronic unit when a voltage of the first power supply drops below a threshold voltage; and electrically connect the second power supply to the electronic unit when the voltage of the first power supply drops below the threshold voltage such that the second power supply powers the electronic unit in the cold crank mode.

A hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) includes: a battery, a hybrid starter generator (HSG) starting an engine, and a controller that identifies a state of charge (SOC) of the battery upon when a reverse gear input is detected, determines whether to charge the battery by the HSG based on the identified SOC of the battery. In particular, the controller controls battery charging in a charging control mode based on a SOC level of the battery when it is determined that the HSG needs to charge the battery.