Abstract: A management system includes a plurality of resources configured to be electrically connected to an external power supply, and a management device configured to manage the resources. The management device includes a planning unit and a management unit. The planning unit is configured to determine a power balancing plan of each of the resources by using first information on a use schedule of each of the resources and second information indicating a magnitude of an environmental load in a process of generating electric power to be supplied by the external power supply. The management unit is configured to manage the resources to cause each of the resources to operate according to the power balancing plan or a modified power balancing plan in power balancing of the external power supply.

Abstract: The power management device includes a processor that functions to manage power exchange in a power system including a virtual power plant, and the processor includes a processor that, when an abnormality occurs in the power system and a cause of the abnormality is a voltage abnormality, causes the virtual power plant to exchange electric power only in one direction for suppressing the power abnormality, and when the cause of the abnormality is a frequency abnormality, causes the virtual power plant to exchange electric power within a range in which the output variation is equal to or less than a predetermined value, and prohibits the exchange of electric power by the virtual power plant until recovery when the cause of the abnormality is a disconnection failure or a short-circuit failure.

Abstract: A server manages plural vehicles each configured to be able to participate in a DR. A first vehicle is able to transmit power through a power cable. A second vehicle is able to transmit power in a non-contact manner while being stationary. A third vehicle is able to transmit power in a non-contact manner while traveling. The server includes a communication device and a processing device. The communication device is able to transmit a DR signal to each of the vehicles. The processing device selects a target vehicle, to which the DR signal is to be transmitted, from the vehicles in accordance with the priority degree for participation in the DR. The processing device sets the priority degree of the first vehicle to be higher than that of the second vehicle, and sets the priority degree of the second vehicle to be higher than that of the third vehicle.

Abstract: When EVSE is unable to acquire DR command based on DR transmitted from the servers from HEMS, for example, when communication between HEMS and EVSE is interrupted, and when the battery of the vehicle is discharging (in reverse power flow), the discharge of the battery is stopped and the battery is charged.

Abstract: A power transfer method between vehicles that are traveling and power transfer devices in a non-contact manner includes acquiring, for each of the vehicles, a traveling plan for a specific vehicle among the vehicles, estimating a power change amount according to power consumption or power regeneration of the specific vehicle that is traveling based on the traveling plan, and setting a power transfer amount between the specific vehicle and a corresponding power transfer device such that the power transfer amount corresponds to the power change amount. The corresponding power transfer device is a device corresponding to the specific vehicle among the power transfer devices.

Abstract: A power supply system includes power supply equipment and a vehicle management device. The power supply equipment is configured to be supplied with electric power from an external power supply and supply the electric power to a vehicle traveling in a power supply lane. The vehicle management device is configured to manage a plurality of vehicles configured to transfer electric power to and from the power supply equipment. The vehicle management device is configured to select balancing vehicles to be controlled for power balancing of the external power supply. The vehicle management device is configured to, when the vehicle management device determines that the control of any of the balancing vehicles for power balancing of the external power supply has been stopped halfway through, select a substitute vehicle to be controlled for power balancing of the external power supply from the vehicles traveling in the power supply lane.

Abstract: A vehicle is configured to participate in demand response used for adjusting a power supply and demand balance in a power system. The vehicle includes a power accumulation device, a power transfer device that enables power transfer in one of a first, a second, and a third method, and a control device that controls the power transfer device. The first method enables power to be transferred through a power cable between the power accumulation device and an outside of the vehicle. The second method enables power to be transferred in a non-contact manner while the vehicle is stopped. The third method enables power to be transferred in the non-contact manner while the vehicle is traveling. When the vehicle participates in the demand response, the control device selects a method in a preferential order of the first, the second, and the third method and execute the power transfer.

Abstract: A server manages plural vehicles each configured to be able to participate in a DR. A first vehicle is able to transmit power through a power cable. A second vehicle is able to transmit power in a non-contact manner while being stationary. A third vehicle is able to transmit power in a non-contact manner while traveling. The server includes a communication device and a processing device. The communication device is able to transmit a DR signal to each of the vehicles. The processing device selects a target vehicle, to which the DR signal is to be transmitted, from the vehicles in accordance with the priority degree for participation in the DR. The processing device sets the priority degree of the first vehicle to be higher than that of the second vehicle, and sets the priority degree of the second vehicle to be higher than that of the third vehicle.

Abstract: A server configured to communicate with a first vehicle and a second vehicle, each of the first vehicle and the second vehicle including a power storage device configured to be charged by wirelessly receiving electric power from a power transmission device arranged on a road during traveling, the server includes: a storage device that stores information on a power shortage area; and a processor configured to: acquire a destination of the first vehicle and a destination of the second vehicle; and limit a charging operation for the second vehicle when the destination of the first vehicle is included in the power shortage area stored in the storage device, the destination of the second vehicle is not included in the power shortage area, and the first vehicle is charged on the road.

Abstract: A power supply system includes: a power supply facility configured to receive power supply from an external power source and execute power supply to a vehicle traveling in a traveling lane; and a vehicle management apparatus configured to manage a plurality of vehicles configured to use the power supply facility, select adjustment vehicles used for power adjustment of the external power source from among the plurality of vehicles, and when any one of the selected adjustment vehicles has reached a predetermined position in the traveling lane, release the one of the adjustment vehicles that has reached the predetermined position from the power adjustment of the external power source.

Abstract: A server includes a processor and a communication device configured to acquire a transmitted power amount transmitted from a power facility during external charging of a vehicle participating in a DR. The processor is configured to calculate, when a plurality of vehicles participates in the DR, a standard reward that is a standard of a reward given from an aggregator to each of the vehicles, according to the transmitted power amount, decide, when a first vehicle participates in the DR, a first reward that is a reward given from the aggregator to the first vehicle, such that the first reward becomes the standard reward for the first vehicle, and decide, when a second vehicle participates in the DR, a second reward that is a reward given from the aggregator to the second vehicle, such that the second reward becomes higher than the standard reward for the second vehicle.

Abstract: A power management system includes a vehicle and a charging or discharging lane. The charging or discharging lane configured to execute at least one of charging or discharging of the vehicle in a non-contact manner. The vehicle is configured to acquire contract contents including a charging or discharging amount and a charging or discharging period. The vehicle is configured to execute the contract contents in a charging or discharging lane that is different from electric vehicle supply equipment set in the contract contents and is reachable before the charging or discharging period when the vehicle is predicted to, before a start of the charging or discharging period, be unable to execute the contract contents in the set electric vehicle supply equipment.

Abstract: A power supply system includes power supply equipment and a vehicle management device. The power supply equipment is configured to be supplied with electric power from an external power supply and supply the electric power to a vehicle traveling in a travel lane. The vehicle management device is configured to manage vehicles configured to use the power supply equipment, and perform vehicle selection in which the vehicle management device selects a balancing vehicle from the vehicles. The vehicle management device is configured to (i) select vehicles remaining after excluding first x vehicles and last y vehicles from a vehicle group traveling in the travel lane as selection candidates and (ii) select at least one of the selection candidates as the balancing vehicle in the vehicle selection.

Abstract: Information on a charging/discharging operation in a second period which is longer than a first period is transmitted as a control instruction from a control server. A communication failure handling device stores the control instruction transmitted in a cycle of the first period from the control server in a memory that is able to be accessed by an electric-vehicle power station regardless of a communication state between the control server and the electric-vehicle power station. When a communication failure has occurred between the control server and the electric-vehicle power station, the communication failure handling device causes the electric-vehicle power station to perform a charging/discharging operation based on the control instruction stored in the memory.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus for controlling a vehicle including an engine, a motor generator, a manual transmission, a clutch, an accelerator pedal, a clutch pedal, a brake pedal, a shift lever, and a control unit that performs inertia travel control to cause a vehicle to start inertia travel when a predetermined condition is satisfied during travel of the vehicle, performs free-run transition control to change to a free-run travel when a predetermined inertia travel time has elapsed since the start of the inertia travel, and sets the inertia travel time in a case where the last operation before the inertia travel is one of predetermined operation to be longer than the inertia travel time in a case where the last operation before the inertia travel is an operation in which the return speed of the accelerator pedal is greater than or equal to a predetermined return speed.

Abstract: If a total power consumption of the high- and low-voltage auxiliary machinery is greater than a first reference value when the high-voltage secondary battery is disconnected from the high-voltage wiring by the relay, the power supply control apparatus sets a lower value to a target control value of the generator output voltage, compared with the total power consumption is less than or equal to the first reference value. If the total power consumption of the high- and low-voltage auxiliary machinery is less than a second reference value that is less than or equal to the first reference value when the high-voltage secondary battery is disconnected from the high-voltage wiring by the relay, the power supply control apparatus sets a higher value to the target control value of the generator output voltage, compared with the total power consumption is more than or equal to the second reference value.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus for controlling a vehicle including an engine, a motor generator, a manual transmission, a clutch, an accelerator pedal, a clutch pedal, a brake pedal, a shift lever, and a control unit that performs inertia travel control to cause a vehicle to start inertia travel when a predetermined condition is satisfied during travel of the vehicle, performs free-run transition control to change to a free-run travel when a predetermined inertia travel time has elapsed since the start of the inertia travel, and sets the inertia travel time in a case where the last operation before the inertia travel is one of predetermined operation to be longer than the inertia travel time in a case where the last operation before the inertia travel is an operation in which the return speed of the accelerator pedal is greater than or equal to a predetermined return speed.

Abstract: If a total power consumption of the high- and low-voltage auxiliary machinery is greater than a first reference value when the high-voltage secondary battery is disconnected from the high-voltage wiring by the relay, the power supply control apparatus sets a lower value to a target control value of the generator output voltage, compared with the total power consumption is less than or equal to the first reference value. If the total power consumption of the high- and low-voltage auxiliary machinery is less than a second reference value that is less than or equal to the first reference value when the high-voltage secondary battery is disconnected from the high-voltage wiring by the relay, the power supply control apparatus sets a higher value to the target control value of the generator output voltage, compared with the total power consumption is more than or equal to the second reference value.

Abstract: In a hybrid power system, when a change-speed stage selected in one of gear-shift mechanisms for first and second drive trains is switched over to another change-speed stage in the other gear-shift mechanism, deceleration in rotation speed of an engine detected by a rotation speed sensor is compared with a preset upper limit. When the deceleration in rotation speed of the engine exceeds the upper limit, the motor-generator in drive connection with an input shaft of the second drive train is activated as an electric motor to cause load torque canceling or offsetting input torque applied to the input shaft of the other gear-shift mechanism from the engine, and engagement of the change-speed stage in the other gear-shift mechanism is released after the occurrence of the load torque.

Abstract: A driving force controlling apparatus for a vehicle including an electric generator and a motor for driving a wheel other than a driving wheel, with electric power from the electric generator, includes a requested electric power computing means that computes requested electric power required for operation of the motor. Target output of the electric generator is set based on the requested electric power and maximum output that the electric generator can output stably. The driving force controlling apparatus for a vehicle including the motor for driving a wheel other than a driving wheel driven by an engine, with electric power from the electric generator, enables the electric generator to stably output electric power.