US 12,391,138 B2
Electric vehicle, and charging and discharging facility, and system
Hideki Sakata, Nishinomiya (JP); Jun Asakura, Kakogawa (JP); Yutaka Yamauchi, Himeji (JP); Hideyuki Nagai, Nagoya (JP); Masanori Iechika, Toyota (JP); and Yasuhiko Ikeda, Kobe (JP)
Assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/929,755.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-146113 (JP), filed on Sep. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0070376 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/0283 (2023.01); B60L 53/62 (2019.01); B60L 53/68 (2019.01); G06Q 50/06 (2024.01)
CPC B60L 53/62 (2019.02) [B60L 53/68 (2019.02); G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01); G06Q 50/06 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric vehicle comprising:
a detector configured to detect whether the electric vehicle is connected to a charging and discharging facility;
a computer configured to select whether to permit the electric vehicle, in response to being connected to the charging and discharging facility, to interchange electric power with the charging and discharging facility based on commands from a resource aggregator, wherein the computer is mounted in the electric vehicle; and
a battery configured to interchange the electric power with the charging and discharging facility in response to a determination to permit interchanging of the electric power with the charging and discharging facility by the computer,
wherein the computer is configured to receive conditions for interchanging electric power, the conditions comprise a minimum state of charge of the battery, and the computer is configured to not permit discharging of the battery in response to the condition of the minimum state of charge of the battery failing to be satisfied,
wherein the conditions include both the minimum state of charge of the battery and a sale price of electricity to the resource aggregator,
wherein the computer is configured to set at least a lower limit value of an electricity sales price applied when electric power is discharged from the electric vehicle through management server managed by the resource aggregator.