Systems and methods are provided for estimating charge time for an electric vehicle. A current vehicle range of the electric vehicle may be determined, and a range selection of the electric vehicle may be determined. Based on the current vehicle range and a charging range associated with the range selection, an intermediate charging range between the current vehicle range and the charging range associated with the range selection is determined. An estimated charge time to charge the electric vehicle to the intermediate charging range may be determined, and an indication of the intermediate charging range and the estimated charge time to reach the intermediate charging range may be generated for presentation.

A distance-to-empty presentation apparatus of a fuel cell vehicle includes: a traveling speed acquisition unit configured to acquire a traveling speed of the fuel cell vehicle; a traveling distance acquisition unit configured to acquire a traveling distance of the fuel cell vehicle in a fuel filling period, the fuel filling period is a period from the time when the fuel is filled in the fuel cell vehicle previously to the time when the fuel is filled in the fuel cell vehicle this time; a fuel residual amount acquisition unit configured to acquire a fuel residual amount of the fuel cell vehicle; a fuel consumption amount acquisition unit configured to acquire a fuel consumption amount of the fuel cell vehicle; a fuel efficiency calculation unit configured to calculate fuel filling period fuel efficiency by using the traveling distance in the fuel filling period and a traveling period fuel consumption amount that is the fuel consumption amount during traveling preparation and during traveling in the fuel filling period, wherein the fuel filling period fuel efficiency is fuel efficiency in the fuel filling period; a distance-to-empty calculation unit configured to calculate a distance to empty of the fuel cell vehicle by using the fuel filling period fuel efficiency and the fuel residual amount; and a presentation device configured to present the distance to empty.

A display controller (20) includes an information acquisition unit configured to obtain input data of attentional resources of an occupant of a mobile object such as traveling time, occupant status information, driving environment information or display image history and a display-image generation unit configured to generate, in a mode determined based on the input data, a display image to be displayed by a display device (10) provided for the mobile object. The mobile object is for instance a vehicle comprising a head-up display.

This invention provides a system for intuitive human-machine interface. The system includes a visual device, an audio device, a haptic device, and a system of chip. The system of chip receives a data transmitted from one of the following groups including at least one electronic control unit, an advanced driver assistance system, a center informative display, and at least one communication system. It determines a first feedback level to which the data matches and drives the visual device, the audio device, and the haptic device to perform difference feedback operations according to the first feedback level, to provide an intuitive cognition message to a driver.

A fuel economy display control method for a hybrid vehicle includes driving electric power supplied to a travel motor from a battery is generated by an electric power generation device that generates electric power by consuming fuel. The fuel economy display control method includes an electric power economy computation step in which instantaneous electric power economy according to an output of the travel motor is computed, a fuel economy computation step in which instantaneous fuel economy corresponding to the above instantaneous electric power economy is computed in accordance with an operating state set for the electric power generation device, and a display step in which the instantaneous fuel economy is displayed on a display device arranged inside a vehicle cabin.

A display unit controller of a work vehicle includes a plurality of high-voltage charging systems, at least one of working equipment or a traveling device being driven by an electric motor, the display unit controller including: a charging/operation determination unit that functions as a detection unit detecting an abnormality for each of the charging systems and functions as a determination unit determining availability of work or traveling of the work vehicle; and a display control unit varying a charging availability indication indicating presence or absence of the abnormality for each of the charging systems according to the presence or absence of the abnormality for each of the charging systems based on a detection result of the detection unit, and varying an operation availability indication indicating availability of work or traveling according to the availability of work or traveling based on a determination result of the determination unit.

The present disclosure relates to a monitoring system for a vehicle, a vehicle comprising such a monitoring system, a method for monitoring such a vehicle and a computer program element for monitoring such a vehicle.

The monitoring system comprises a display unit, an adjustment tool and a control unit. The control unit is configured to generate an energy flow map showing an energy flow from an energy storage system to at least one sub-system of the vehicle. The display unit is configured to display the energy flow map, to graphically emphasize the at least one sub-system and to display a current energy consumption of the sub-system. The control unit is further configured to adjust the energy consumption of the sub-system based on a user's input to the adjustment tool.

There is provided a hybrid vehicle that enables user to be more appropriately notified of a control effect by performing a drive support control. A hybrid vehicle includes an engine; a motor; a battery; map information; and a control device programmed to set a drive route from a current location to a destination, to create a drive support plan that assigns one of drive modes including a CD mode and a CS mode to each of drive sections of the drive route, and to perform drive support control that causes the hybrid vehicle to be driven along the drive support plan. The control device accumulates control effect obtained by performing the drive support control and notifies the control effect when the hybrid vehicle reaches the destination. The control device deletes the control effect when the predetermined deletion condition is satisfied.

A vehicle state display device for a vehicle includes an output limiting unit that limits an output of the vehicle when charge of a battery is equal to or smaller than a first value and a battery state display unit that displays a state of the battery. The battery state display unit switches and displays a first display mode indicating that the state of charge of the battery exceeds a second value that is larger than the first value, a second display mode indicating that the state of charge of the battery is equal to or smaller than the second value and exceeds the first value and the output of the vehicle may be limited, and a third display mode indicating that the state of charge of the battery is equal to or smaller than the first value and the output of the vehicle is being limited.

An indicator data output device, including a storage unit storing vehicle identification data and indicator data, an output unit outputting the stored indicator data, a vehicle usage amount data-obtaining unit obtaining the vehicle identification data and vehicle usage amount data, and an indicator data-updating unit obtaining the vehicle usage amount data and indicator differential data corresponding to an amount of increase in the indicator data calculated based on the vehicle usage amount data, and updating the stored indicator data. The vehicle usage amount data includes at least one of first and second indicators that increase as the vehicle is used. The second indicator indicates a number of times of a third indicator satisfying a predetermined condition, and is dimensionless with respect to all of a plurality of vehicle status dimensions. Each of the first and third indicators is a dimensional quantity with respect to at least one of the plurality of vehicle status dimensions.