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.

Systems and methods may coordinate and provide bidirectional energy transfer events between electrified vehicles and other vehicles, devices, and/or structures. A power outage map can automatically be generated in response to a power outage condition of a grid power source. Both a power outage zone and a predicted power outage zone may be identified within the power outage map. A notification, alternative drive route recommendation, etc. may be sent to users of the bidirectional energy transfer system who are operating their vehicles near the power outage zone or the predicted power outage zone.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor nanowire semiconductor device is described. The method includes forming an amorphous channel material layer on a substrate, patterning the channel material layer to form semiconductor nanowires extending in a lateral direction on the substrate, and forming a cover layer covering an upper of the semiconductor nanowire. The cover layer and the nanowire are patterned to form a trench exposing a side section of an one end of the semiconductor nanowire and a catalyst material layer is formed in contact with a side surface of the semiconductor nanowire, and metal induced crystallization (MIC) by heat treatment is performed to crystallize the semiconductor nanowire in a length direction of the nanowire from the one end of the semiconductor nanowire in contact with the catalyst material.

A method for operating an electrically operated or also electrically operable motor vehicle provided with a rechargeable electric energy storage device associated with the drive motor of the motor vehicle. A target charging state is determined for the energy storage device and an operating strategy is determined for a route that is calculated, entered or predicted for the next trip, by which recuperative deceleration is enabled with a specifiable minimum amount for deceleration processes occurring along the route. A total mass of the motor vehicle, including optionally a trailer connected to the motor vehicle, deviating from an input normal value and an air resistance of the motor vehicle deviating from a predetermined normal value are taken into account.

A system for navigating a vehicle automatically from a current location to a destination location without a human operator is provided. The system of the vehicle includes a global positioning system (GPS) for identifying a vehicle location and a communications system for communicating with a server of a cloud system. The server is configured to identify that the vehicle location is near or at a parking location. The communications system is configured to receive mapping data for the parking location from the server, and the mapping data is at least in part used to find a path at the parking location to avoid a collision of the vehicle with at least one physical object when the vehicle is automatically moved at the parking location. The mapping data is processed by electronics of the vehicle so that when the vehicle is automatically moved collision with the at least one physical object is avoided and the electronics of the vehicle is configured to process a combination of sensor data obtained by sensors of the vehicle. The processing of the sensor data uses image data obtained from one or more cameras and light data obtained from one or more optical sensors.

A system for providing a recommended route for a vehicle, from a current location to an intermediate destination, to a final destination. The system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) configured to determine a vehicle range exceeding a distance between the current location of the vehicle and the intermediate destination. The ECU is configured to determine a baseline route having a first section and a second section. The ECU is configured to determine a first energy source of the first section and a second energy source of the second section. The ECU is configured to determine a first cost associated with incorporating the first energy source and a second cost associated with incorporating the second energy source. The ECU is also configured to determine the recommended route based on the first cost and the second cost. The system also includes an output unit configured to output the recommended route.

A system and method for monitoring the health of smart battery packs in an electric vehicle and determining when one or more of the smart battery packs needs to be replaced. In addition, the system and method locate optimal smart battery packs to exchange with the one or more battery packs that need to be replaced.

A device for displaying a distance to empty of an electric vehicle is provided. The device includes a detector configured to detect state information of the vehicle and a controller configured to estimate a weight of the vehicle based on the state information of the vehicle and determine whether to update the distance to empty based on the estimated weight.

An information provision device and an information provision system that can reduce user anxiety when the charge amount of a battery has decreased are provided. A vehicle 100 is provided with a charge amount determination unit 611 that determines whether a charge amount of a battery 40 is less than a predetermined threshold; a minimum remaining travel distance calculation unit 613 that calculates a minimum remaining travel distance on the basis of error information for the vehicle 100 when the charge amount of the battery 40 is less than the predetermined threshold; and a display control unit 616 that displays, on a display unit 64 of a display device 60, charging equipment information related to charging equipment 300 present within a distance that can be traveled to in accordance with the minimum remaining travel distance.

Embodiments herein can determine an optimal route for an autonomous electric vehicle. The system may score viable routes between the start and end locations of a trip using a numeric or other scale that denotes how viable the route is for autonomy. The score is adjusted using a variety of factors where a learning process leverages both offline and online data. The scored routes are not based simply on the shortest distance between the start and end points but determine the best route based on the driving context for the vehicle and the user.