A battery electric vehicle is equipped with an MT that uses an electric motor as a driving power device and simulates an MT vehicle. Battery electric vehicle includes one or more processors configured to generate a pseudo-engine sound and to provide the pseudo-engine sound through one or more in-vehicle speakers. In MT mode, the one or more processors perform sound field control so that the listenability of the pseudo-engine sound in the first in-vehicle area and the second in-vehicle area different from the first in-vehicle area differs.

A vehicle management system is applied to a battery electric vehicle. The battery electric vehicle includes a simulation mode in which a simulation target is simulated. The simulation target includes at least either of a driving sound of a virtual mobile body and driving characteristics of a virtual vehicle. The vehicle management system includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to calculate driving proficiency of a driver that drives the battery electric vehicle in the simulation mode. The one or more processors are configured to change options for the simulation target according to the driving proficiency.

A vehicle management system includes one or more processors configured to generate a pseudo engine sound based on a driving state of a battery electric vehicle. The one or more processors are configured to output the pseudo engine sound from a speaker mounted on the battery electric vehicle. The one or more processors are configured to generate the pseudo engine sound using a sound source corresponding to a selected vehicle type selected from among a plurality of engine vehicle types. The one or more processors are configured to, when a user makes a tentative designation input to tentatively designate the selected vehicle type while the battery electric vehicle is stationary, output a sample sound for an engine vehicle type corresponding to the tentative designation input in a predetermined output form from the speaker.

The present disclosure relates to a longitudinal guidance device for a motor vehicle with an electric drive machine, having a control unit, which can be coupled to the drive machine in order to actuate a drive torque, and a boost switch, which can be coupled to the control unit in order to request an additional drive torque, wherein the control unit is designed to actuate a higher drive torque while the boost switch is actuated until a maximum boost torque is reached and/or until the actuation of the boost switch ends.

A vehicle management system applied to a vehicle is configured to generate a simulated sound that simulates a sound of virtual mobility. The vehicle management system is configured to output the simulated sound through a speaker mounted in the vehicle. The vehicle management system is configured to gradually changes an output level of the simulated sound over a transition period when turning ON or OFF an output of the simulated sound.

A battery electric vehicle having an electric motor as a drive source, the battery electric vehicle includes a processor configured to reproduce characteristics of a plurality of kinds of virtual mobilities different from the battery electric vehicle, wherein the processor is configured to execute reading information on designating at least one of the virtual mobilities from a medium different from the battery electric vehicle, and reproducing a characteristic of one virtual mobility designated by the information acquired from the medium without requesting a user of the battery electric vehicle to select one of the virtual mobilities.

A sound synthesis system and method are provided for an electric or hybrid electric vehicle. The system receives an audio signal from an inverter of the vehicle comprising an analog waveform, a digital waveform, or a parameter. The audio signal from the inverter is synthesized and combined with another audio signal via at least one of combination, superimposition, mixing, multiplication, and adding, and the combined signal is amplified and output as a synthesized audio signal or as a visual display of a waveform of the amplified, combined signal.

A vehicle including an electric motor, a pseudo clutch operation device, a shift operation device, and a single or plurality of processors is provided. The electric motor is a drive source of the vehicle. The shift operation device is configured to be operated for selecting a gear stage. The single or plurality of processors is configured to simulate a drive characteristic of a virtual vehicle by changing a motor torque of the electric motor in response to at least operation of the pseudo clutch operation device and operation of the shift operation device. The single or plurality of processors is configured to permit alteration of the gear stage to a specific gear stage regardless of whether the pseudo clutch operation device is operated, the specific gear stage depending on a motor rotation speed of the electric motor.

A control system for an electric vehicle (Ve) configured to allow a driver to enjoy behaviors of conventional vehicles having an engine and a transmission more realistically, without impairing comfort and quietness of the electric vehicle (Ve). An operating mode of the electric vehicle (Ve) is selected from a first mode to a fourth mode. In the third mode a driver is allowed to enjoy a virtual shifting operation and a simulated engine sound is emitted. In the fourth mode, an availability of the virtual shifting operation and the emission of the simulated engine sound are maintained. The third mode is cancelled by shifting to the first mode or the fourth mode; and the fourth mode is cancelled by shifting to the third mode.

A control system for an electric vehicle configured to allow a driver to enjoy behaviors of conventional vehicles having an engine and a transmission more realistically, without impairing comfort and quietness of the electric vehicle. In a virtual AT mode, a target torque value of a motor with respect to a motor speed is changed stepwise in accordance with an operating range shifted automatically, and a simulated engine sound is emitted. The emission of the simulated engine sound is continued until the virtual AT mode is cancelled and a shift lever is moved to a drive position.