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US 6,181,991 B2Granted
Electric vehicle sharing system
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShugo Kondo, Masami Ogura, Akihiko Takei
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Abstract
When a user enters a destination using a touch panel display unit, a system control unit calculates a predicted travel distance from a present position to the destination, determines an electric vehicle having a remaining battery capacity required to travel the calculated predicted travel distance, and supplies the determined electric vehicle to the user.
Claims13
An electric vehicle sharing system comprising:
- a plurality of shared electric vehicles operable by electric power supplied from a battery;
- a standby station for keeping said shared electric vehicles;
- operating means for performing a lending process for the electric vehicles;
- remaining battery capacity detecting means for detecting remaining battery capacities of the electric vehicles kept in said standby station;
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- vehicle determining means for determining an electric vehicle to be lent to said user among the electric vehicles based on the detected remaining battery capacities.
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An electric vehicle sharing system comprising:
- a plurality of shared electric vehicles operable by electric power supplied from a battery;
- a standby station for keeping said shared electric vehicles;
- operating means for performing a lending process for the electric vehicles;
- destination entering means for entering the destination of a user of an electric vehicle;
- remaining battery capacity detecting means for detecting remaining battery capacities of the electric vehicles kept in said standby station;
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- vehicle determining means for determining an electric vehicle to be lent to said user among the electric vehicles based on the entered destination and the detected remaining battery capacities.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.