INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS

An information processing apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more storage media storing a program. The program includes one or more instructions that cause the one or more processors to execute acquiring information on a current location of a vehicle and a destination of the vehicle; acquiring one or more scheduled travel routes for reaching the destination from the current location; acquiring current weather information; predicting a standstill section in which a standstill situation is likely to occur on the one or more scheduled travel routes; predicting a standstill time during which a standstill situation occurs in the predicted standstill section; calculating heating power consumption due to use of heating over the predicted standstill time; performing a determination as to whether to additionally charge a traveling battery of the vehicle in accordance with the heating power consumption; and presenting information corresponding to a result of the determination.