When an acceleration degree of a vehicle in a state of an electric motor generating torque as motive power is small compared to the acceleration degree of the vehicle in a state of being propelled using that torque, a user is notified by displaying a warning on a display which is a notification device of the vehicle.

A control system for an electric vehicle configured to simulate an engine stall which might occur in conventional vehicles while preventing the simulation of the engine stall in an unfavorable situation. A controller of the control system is configured to: execute an engine stall control to simulate a behavior of the conventional vehicle in a situation where an engine stall occurs by stopping a motor, when a virtual engine speed calculated by a virtual engine speed calculator falls below a predetermined speed; and execute a hold assist control to apply a brake torque to the wheel by the brake device upon execution of the engine stall control.

A control method for an electric vehicle using a motor as a traveling drive source to decelerate by a regenerative braking force of the motor, including: obtaining an accelerator operation amount; estimating a disturbance torque acting on a vehicle body of the electric vehicle; obtaining an angular velocity of a rotating body that correlates to a rotation speed of a drive shaft which drives the electric vehicle; calculating a first torque command value based on the accelerator operation amount; setting the first torque command value to a torque command value; controlling a torque generated in the motor based on the torque command value; setting a target stop position at the time of stopping the electric vehicle; calculating a target angular velocity of the rotating body according to a distance from the electric vehicle to the target stop position; calculating a second torque command value for stopping the electric vehicle at the target stop position based on a difference between the target angular velocity and the obtained angular velocity; and converging the torque command value to the disturbance torque by setting the second torque command value to the torque command value and adjusting the braking and driving forces of the motor according to a distance to the target stop position, when the accelerator operation amount decreases or becomes zero and the electric vehicle is about to stop.

A motorized movement device includes a frame, first and second wheels connected to the frame, and first and second motors connected respectively to the first and second wheels that are commandable by respective command signals. The motorized device also includes an inertial measuring unit configured to detect the longitudinal acceleration, pitch angular speed, and yaw angular speed of the movement device and for providing signals representative of the same. The motorized device also includes sensors for detecting speeds of the wheels and configured to provide signals representative thereof. The motorized device further includes a control unit comprising a module for estimating the slope, and longitudinal thrust exerted by a user to the device, yaw torque applied by the user. The control unit also includes a module for compensating the slope, a thrust amplifying module, a yaw torque amplifying module, and a torque allocating module.

A vehicle control system determines an upper non-zero limit on deceleration of a vehicle to prevent rollback of the vehicle down a grade being traveled up on by the vehicle. The upper non-zero limit on deceleration is determined by the controller based on a payload carried by the vehicle, a speed of the vehicle, and a grade of a route being traveled upon by the vehicle. The controller is configured to monitor the deceleration of the vehicle, and to automatically prevent the deceleration of the vehicle from exceeding the upper non-zero limit by controlling one or more of a brake or a motor of the vehicle. The controller also is configured to one or more of actuate the brake or supply current to the motor of the vehicle to prevent rollback of the vehicle while the vehicle is moving up the grade at a non-zero speed.

Disclosed are a device and a method for improving the fuel efficiency of a fuel cell vehicle in uphill and downhill driving. The device may calculate an appropriate stack output to be generated from a fuel cell stack based on the SOC of a battery as well as an uphill altitude at which the vehicle traveling on the uphill road has to travel further to reach the highest altitude when determining the degree of the stack output generated from the fuel cell stack when driving on the uphill road, and may prevent fuel consumption from increasing to generate excessive stack output while driving on an uphill road or the durability of the fuel cell stack from being deteriorated.

A control apparatus is mountable to a vehicle including an electric motor, a lock mechanism, and an actuator apparatus. The control apparatus controls the electric motor and a shift-by-wire system provided in the vehicle. The shift-by-wire system performs switching to shift ranges of the vehicle including a shift range and a non-parking range other than the parking range. The control apparatus drives the actuator apparatus to release the lock on the power transmission mechanism by the lock mechanism based on the shift range of the shift-by-wire system being switched from the parking range to the non-parking range. The control apparatus performs torque correction control in which an output torque of the electric motor is corrected such that a load acting on the lock mechanism from the power transmission mechanism is reduced based on the shift range of the shift-by-wire system being switched from the parking range to the non-parking range.

A trailer can be configured to selectively provide powered wheels, energy recovery, and/or parasitic power source charging. A trailer-related trigger (drive activation trigger, an energy recovery trigger, or a parasitic charging trigger) can be detected. When a drive activation trigger is detected, one or more motors can be activated to power one or more wheels of the trailer, thereby providing extra pushing power. When an energy recovery trigger is detected, one or more power sources of the trailer can be charged by recovering energy from the trailer. When a parasitic charging trigger is detected, one or more power sources of the trailer can be charged using a portion of the power generated by a main vehicle operatively connected to the trailer.

Includes electric motor (330) driving driving wheel (610) , speed control unit (300) controlling driving of electric motor (330) based on instructed speed ω.sub.r*, brake control unit (400) controlling hydraulic brake (500) applying mechanical braking to an electromotive vehicle, speed sensor (340) detecting traveling speed ω.sub.r of the electromotive vehicle, and determination unit (200) determining whether the mechanical braking needs to be applied in response to the difference between instructed speed ω.sub.r* and traveling speed ω.sub.r, and controlling operation of brake control unit (400) based on the determination result. Determination unit (200) determines that mechanical braking needs to be applied when instructed speed ω.sub.r* indicates deceleration and traveling speed ω.sub.r is higher than instructed speed ω.sub.r* , and performs control so that brake control unit (400) works hydraulic brake (500) .

A method for controlling a creep torque of a motor-driven vehicle includes a gradient calculating step of calculating a gradient of a traveling road, and a time constant calculating step of calculating a time constant of a filter using the gradient, a preset basic creep torque, and a sliding speed limiting value. A variable controlling step substitutes the calculated time constant for the time constant of the filter, inputs the basic creep torque to the filter, and controls the motor using a torque value output from the filter as a demanded torque.