A method is provided for preventing the driving of an electrically driven vehicle, having an electrical energy source and at least one electrical machine for a driving operation of the vehicle, between which there is arranged at least one switch, wherein electrical energy is exchanged between the electrical energy source and the electrical machine when the at least one switch is closed, includes, in the event that the driving of the vehicle is to be prevented, relaying a command designed for this purpose to a controller of the vehicle and receiving the command, by the controller, whereupon the at least one switch is opened by the controller if the vehicle is in a safe, nonmoving condition.

A system comprises an acceleration information acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating an acceleration of a vehicle; a shaft output information acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a shaft output of a rotating electrical machine; a position information acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a position of the vehicle; and a determination unit configured to determine a state of a road on which the vehicle has run, based on the acceleration of the vehicle, the shaft output, and the position of the vehicle. A method comprises acquiring information indicating an acceleration of a vehicle; acquiring information indicating a shaft output of a rotating electrical machine; acquiring information indicating a position of the vehicle; and determining a state of a road on which the vehicle has run, based on the acceleration of the vehicle, the shaft output, and the position of the vehicle.

A server prepares a charging plan for a travel route to a destination. The server obtains an outside air temperature and a battery temperature. The server reads a map from a storage, and calculates an amount of required heat required for increasing the battery temperature to a target temperature by collating the outside air temperature and the battery temperature with the map. The server prepares the charging plan such that an SOC of a battery at the time of arrival at the destination attains to a prescribed SOC and a sum of an amount of heat generation by charging of the battery at a charging point and an amount of heat generation by charging and discharging of the battery with travel of a vehicle is equal to the amount of required heat.

An electric power management system is a system that performs an exchange of electric power with an electric power system of an electric power company that is a counterparty of the exchange of the electric power, and includes a plurality of the vehicles, each including a battery, and a server that manages an exchange of the electric power between the battery of each of the vehicles and the electric power system. The server manages the exchange of the electric power for each vehicle group in which the vehicles are bundled, and configures the vehicle groups in advance such that distributions of the electric power supply and demand characteristics of the batteries of the vehicles included in the vehicle groups are the same or similar.

A ground utility robot and implement attachment apparatus having a ground utility robot, at least one implement, at least one solar panel, at least one battery that is chargeable by the at least one solar panel, a power take-off system that is connected to the ground utility robot and to the at least one implement; where the battery powers said ground utility robot and the implement; a safety system that has a computer, a safety program that utilizes a processing logic on the computer, where the safety program initiates precautionary measures that are carried out by the ground utility robot and the power take-off system if an object comes within a predefined distance from the ground utility robot and implement attachment apparatus.

Route management methods and systems for electric vehicles are provided. First, a driving monitoring system of an electric vehicle is used to detect a driving state of the electric vehicle. Then, the driving state is transmitted to the server via a network by the driving monitoring system. The server performs an analysis according to the driving state to obtain a driving behavior index of a driver corresponding to the electric vehicle. Then, a plurality of routes are provided in the server, wherein each route includes a plurality of stations, and average distance between two stations. The server selects one of the routes according to the driving behavior index, and assigns the selected route to the driver of the electric vehicle.

A charging system includes a charging station having input configured to receive a first type of electrical power, and a power converter connected to the input. The power converter is configured to convert the first type of electrical power from the input to a second type of electrical power different to the first type of electrical power, the second type of electrical power including DC electrical power. The charging station has outputs connected to the power converter, the outputs configured such that DC electrical power is providable to each of the outputs simultaneously. Each of the outputs is configured to connect to a respective electric vehicle for charging of the electric vehicle.

A hydrogen fuel cell, PV solar panel, and thermoelectric power generator powered all-electric mobile utility vehicle with an onboard regulated power supply with multiple power outlets and charging ports that uses DC/DC converters and DC/AC inverters to provide multiple DC and AC voltages to power or charge multiple external electrical devices, electronic instruments, electronic equipment, communications equipment, power tools, and vehicles simultaneously. A utility vehicle integrated with a component thermal management system GPS, Wi-Fi, ADAS, automotive Ethernet, telecommunications, real-time data reporting, warning notification capable, weather station, environmental sensors, with EMI, RFI, high voltage surge protection, circuit breakers, computer and supporting software programs which can be used in on-road, off-road and emergency response situations.

To obtain a vehicle control device capable of creating a route that facilitates tracing by a vehicle in autonomous driving and improving positional accuracy of the vehicle at the time of tracing. A vehicle control device (520) of the present invention includes an oversteer angle determination unit (508) that determines whether or not a steering angle of a vehicle (10) is an oversteer angle, a stationary steering determination unit (509) that determines whether or not stationary steering operation is performed on a vehicle, a route storage mode detection unit (505) that determines whether or not a route storage mode is set, a specific operation detection unit (507) that determines whether a steering angle is the oversteer angle or the stationary steering operation is performed in the route storage mode, and an output unit that outputs a control command of steering angle restriction control that restricts steering operation of a driver in the route storage mode in a case where the specific operation detection unit determines that a steering angle is the oversteer angle or the stationary steering operation is performed.

A vehicle system of a hybrid vehicle includes: a navigation device that searches a movement path to a destination of a vehicle; and a vehicle control device configured to predict driving energy of a road section included in the movement path according to a vehicle speed of the vehicle when the movement path includes an exhaust gas emission restriction zone, predict first consumption State of charge (SOC) value of the battery consumed within the exhaust gas emission restriction zone based on the driving energy for a case in which the vehicle drives in the exhaust gas emission restriction zone without driving the engine, determine a target SOC value of the battery at a time when the vehicle enters the exhaust gas emission restriction zone based on the predicted first consumption SOC, and control the operation of the vehicle.