To provide a technique for reliably acquiring a required braking power during travel and for efficiently using a regenerative power generated during braking. A work vehicle calculates a regenerative power outputted from an electric motor and a target hydraulic driving power for driving a hydraulic pump, supplies the regenerative power to the generator motor operating as a motor and makes the generator motor consume the regenerative power in a case where the regenerative power is equal to or smaller than the target hydraulic driving power, and supplies the regenerative power to the generator motor operating as the motor and makes an exhaust brake consume a power equivalent to a difference between the regenerative power and the target hydraulic driving power in a case where the regenerative power is larger than the target hydraulic driving power.

A hybrid vehicle includes a multi-cylinder engine, an exhaust gas control apparatus including a catalyst for removing exhaust gas from the multi-cylinder engine, an electric motor, and a control device configured to execute catalyst temperature increase control for stopping fuel supply to at least one cylinder and making an air-fuel ratio in each of remaining cylinders rich in a case where a temperature increase of a catalyst is requested during a load operation of the multi-cylinder engine, execute control such that an electric motor supplements insufficient drive power due to the execution of the catalyst temperature increase control, and change the air-fuel ratio in at least one of the remaining cylinders to a lean side after a temperature of the exhaust gas control apparatus becomes equal to or higher than a determination threshold value during the execution of the catalyst temperature increase control.

Disclosed is a method for managing a torque to be supplied on a shaft of an electric motor including the following steps: creating and initializing a correction data table; acquiring a torque instruction; determining a torque command; measuring the current output from the converter and measuring the current output from the battery; calculating an electrical power on the basis of the two current measurements and of the voltage; determining, on the basis of a map, a corresponding torque on the basis of the electrical power at the motor and of the rotational speed of the motor; reading the information provided by the motor relating to the torque exerted on its shaft; calculating the difference between the information provided by the motor and the torque determined on the basis of the electrical power; and updating the correction data table.

The disclosure relates to a method for operating a hybrid electric vehicle. According to the method, a route information is received in the form of a plurality of parameter sets, each parameter set relating to a segment of a route (S1). Subsequently, a power demand is estimated for each segment (S3) and a portion of an amount of energy being stored in the electric storage device is allocated to at least one of the segments. Alternatively or additionally, an amount of energy to be transferred into the electric storage device is allocated to at least one of the segments (S4). Additionally, at least one reference trajectory describing a state-of-energy of the electric storage device over the route resulting from the energy allocation is derived (S5). The operation of the hybrid electric vehicle is controlled as a function of a slope between a current state-of-energy and an upcoming control point on the reference trajectory (S7). Moreover, a data processing device comprising means for carrying out the method is presented.

A method for operating a vehicle comprises operating an electric machine and an internal combustion engine as the drive units, by which a total power is generated in synchronous operation for the driving of the vehicle, wherein one portion of the power of the electric machine and one portion of the power of the internal combustion engine is set in dependence on the temperature of at least one of the drive units in the total power for the driving of the vehicle.

Methods and systems of power management in a hybrid vehicle are disclosed. A control system of the hybrid vehicle obtains battery temperature and catalyst temperature. The control system determines (a) whether the battery temperature is within an optimal battery temperature range and (b) whether the catalyst temperature is within an optimal catalyst temperature range. The control system determines a power split ratio (PSR) based on the determination of (a) and (b). The control system controls the engine and the motor-generator based on the determined PSR.

A device for controlling driving of an electric four-wheel drive vehicle at the time of shift is provided. The device controls driving of an electric four-wheel drive vehicle to minimize energy loss occurring on a power transmission path during shift, thereby improving fuel efficiency.

A method for operating a motor vehicle by detecting a destination input by a motor vehicle occupant; and determining which residual range of the motor vehicle will be indicated at the destination. If the determined residual range is less than a predetermined threshold value, the motor vehicle is operated in a consumption optimizing mode during which the motor vehicle is operated to carry out automatic measures for reducing the consumption of the motor vehicle until reaching the destination.

A control apparatus for a vehicle that includes an engine as a drive power source, a rotating machine as an electric power generator, and an electric storage device. The control apparatus executes an automatic drive control for automatically controlling a torque of the drive power source in accordance with a requested drive torque without requiring an acceleration/deceleration operation by a driver of the vehicle. During an engine running of the vehicle, the rotating machine is rotated by the engine to generate an electric power, and a charging amount, by which the electric storage device is to be charged, is controlled by controlling the electric power generated by the rotating machine. The control apparatus is configured, during an automatic driving of the vehicle, to set the charging amount such that the charging amount is smaller when the requested drive torque is small than when the requested drive torque is large.

The present disclosure provides a hybrid electric vehicle, a drive control method and a drive control device of a hybrid electric vehicle. The drive control method includes: obtaining a current gear position of the hybrid electric vehicle and a current electric charge level of a power battery; obtaining a slope of a road on which the hybrid electric vehicle is driving, if the current gear position of the hybrid electric vehicle and the current electric charge level of the power battery meet a preset requirement; and causing a working state of an engine and/or a motor of the hybrid electric vehicle according to the slope of the road on which the hybrid electric vehicle is driving.