A control apparatus for an electric vehicle includes a requested torque calculator, a command torque calculator, and a driving controller. The requested torque calculator is configured to calculate requested torque. The command torque calculator includes a change rate adjuster configured to adjust respective upper limit change rates of left command torque and right command torque that follow the requested torque. The change rate adjuster is configured to, on the basis of a predetermined operation of turning back a steering angle performed on a steering unit of the electric vehicle, lower the upper limit change rate of a driving wheel, serving as an inner wheel among left and right driving wheels of the electric vehicle before turning back the steering angle, than the upper limit change rate of the driving wheel, serving as an outer wheel among the left and the right driving wheels before turning back the steering angle.

An energy storage system comprising at least one energy storage module adapted to supply electrical energy to a hybrid vehicle. The energy storage module comprises an enclosure, at least one battery array located within the enclosure, and an energy storage controller module located within the enclosure and electrically connected to the battery array. The energy storage module further comprises a compliant tipped thermistor which may be installed within a flexible clip. The thermistor is positioned to monitor the temperature of one or more of the batteries within the energy storage system.

Provided are a device for controlling an electric vehicle and a method of controlling an electric vehicle that are capable of appropriately suppressing a vibration. In the device for controlling an electric vehicle according to the present invention, when a motor configured to generate a torque for braking or driving a drive wheel is controlled based on a torque command value based on an accelerator operation or a brake operation by a driver and a vibration suppression control torque command value for suppressing a vibration component caused by a resonance of the vehicle, the vibration suppression control torque command value is restricted based on a state of the drive wheel during a travel.

A hybrid electric vehicle having one or more controllers, at least two independently driven electric machines (EMs) that are each coupled to separate drive wheels, and controllers configured to generate a torque split ratio responsive to lateral acceleration and/or unequal friction coefficients detected during braking, and to generate electric power with the motors by regeneratively braking each wheel with unequal torques adjusted by the ratio, such that combined wheel braking torques do not exceed a total braking torque limit for the vehicle. In some configurations, the controller(s) generate the torque split ratio by a predetermined lookup table that maps a plurality of torque split ratios to lateral accelerations, the coefficients, and other parameters. Further arrangements include the controller(s) coupled with sensors that detect wheel slip and yaw rate, and responsive to a braking signal, the controller(s) disengage regenerative braking when the wheel slip and/or vehicle yaw are detected.

A vehicle braking system is provided with: a driving motor that can apply a regenerative braking force to a wheel; a friction braking device that is operated so as to apply a friction braking force to the wheel; and a braking control device. The braking control device controls the friction braking device on the basis of the detected value of a wheel speed when the detected value of the wheel speed of the wheel based on an output signal from each of wheel speed sensors SE5-SE8 can be acquired, and, when the detected value of the wheel speed cannot be acquired, acquires the estimated value of the wheel speed of the wheel on the basis of the rotational speed of the driving motor and controls the friction braking device on the basis of the estimated value of the wheel speed.

A braking apparatus and a braking control method for a vehicle, wherein the braking apparatus includes an inlet valve for interrupting a braking hydraulic pressure supplied to a wheel cylinder of the vehicle, a regenerative braking unit for performing the regenerative braking of the vehicle, and a control unit for controlling the braking hydraulic pressure supplied to the wheel cylinder by controlling the inlet valve so that hydraulic braking force determined by subtracting a hydraulic braking force generated by the regenerative braking unit from a demand braking force requested by a driver is generated. The control unit controls the hydraulic braking pressure supplied to the wheel cylinder by controlling the inlet valve on the basis of changes in the vehicle speed and the regenerative braking force of the vehicle.

An energy storage system comprising at least one energy storage module adapted to supply electrical energy to a hybrid vehicle. The energy storage module comprises an enclosure, at least one battery array located within the enclosure, and an energy storage controller module located within the enclosure and electrically connected to the battery array. The energy storage module further comprises a compliant tipped thermistor which may be installed within a flexible clip. The thermistor is positioned to monitor the temperature of one or more of the batteries within the energy storage system.

A system a vehicle having a wheel-driving motor is disclosed. The system includes wheel speed sensors for detecting speed of respective vehicle wheels, and a controller for controlling coast regenerative torque of the vehicle. The controller lowers coast regenerative torque based on wheel speed acquired detected using the wheel speed sensors. The controller is lowers coast regenerative torque based on speed difference among the wheels and based on change of wheel slip ratio.

A vehicle includes a pair of electric machines each coupled to a laterally-opposing wheel to output a wheel torque. The vehicle also includes a controller programmed to command a combined regenerative braking torque output of the electric machines based on a lesser of a braking torque limit of each individual electric machine. The controller is also programmed to command a regenerative braking torque from each electric machine to be within a predetermined torque threshold of each other in response to a yaw rate exceeding a yaw threshold.

Disclosed herein is an electric brake system including: a hydraulic feeder configured to move a piston forward or backward according to a pedal effort from a brake pedal to discharge oil; a motor position sensor configured to measure a position of the piston; and a controller configured to control, when an Anti-lock Brake System (ABS) control starts, a change in direction of the piston based on predicted displacement information of the piston while the ABS control is performed such that the piston is at a target position at target vehicle speed.