Leading and trailing electrified vehicles are coupled together in a towing arrangement for in-flight transfer of an electrical charge between their battery systems. With the vehicles connected by a towing device, a parking maneuver is initiated in which the trailing vehicle leads the leading vehicle. For the parking maneuver, one of the vehicles is designated (e.g., automatically or by driver agreement) to be an active steering vehicle and the other vehicle to be a passive steering vehicle. At least the passive steering vehicle comprises an electrically-controlled steering actuator. During movement, a turning (e.g., steering angle) of the active steering vehicle is monitored. Based on the turning of the active steering vehicle, an assistive steering angle is determined for the passive steering vehicle. The electrically-controlled steering actuator is commanded according to the assistive steering angle. The parking maneuver may be reverse or forward.

A vehicle includes a common pedal that receives an acceleration operation and a deceleration operation in accordance with a depression amount, a deceleration deriving unit that derives a deceleration of the vehicle based on the deceleration operation of the common pedal, a first distance deriving unit that derives a predicted stopping distance that is a distance between a current position of the vehicle and a predicted stop position at which the vehicle is predicted to stop when travelling at the derived deceleration, a second distance deriving unit that derives a target stopping distance that is a distance between the current position of the vehicle and a target stop position at which the vehicle is to stop, and a deceleration correcting unit that corrects the deceleration of the vehicle based on the predicted stopping distance and the target stopping distance.

A system for controlling a smart mobility by risk level includes: an information collection unit to collect position and speed information of the smart mobility and camera sensing information including a front traffic sign or object; a front detection unit to detect a front obstacle or inclination using the camera sensing information and to output a detection result; a control unit to change a warning to a user and/or a method of controlling the smart mobility by risk level based on the information collected by the information collection unit and the detection result; and a warning unit to warn the user by changing a method by risk level under the control of the control unit.

A vehicle provided with an electric motor configured for outputting warning through torque control of the motor and a method of outputting warning for the same, may include: recognizing, by a controller, a stop point or a deceleration section where a pause or deceleration of the vehicle is required or recommended; setting, by the controller, a virtual road surface facility based on the stop point or a start point of the deceleration section; outputting, by the controller, information on a set position of the set virtual facility or a distance remaining from the vehicle to the set position; and implementing, by the controller, driving feeling passing through the set virtual road surface facility as a pitching motion of the vehicle using a torque control of the electric motor according to a vehicle speed when the electric vehicle passes the set position.

The present invention relates to a battery arrangement for an electrically powered industrial vehicle. The battery arrangement comprises a battery and ancillary equipment arranged to connect the battery to the vehicle. The battery is removably connected to the vehicle and comprises a current sensor. The battery is in a first state (A) when a measured current out from the battery exceeds a predetermined first current level. In the first state (A) the battery is prevented from turning power off to the vehicle. The battery is in a second state (B) when a measured current out from the battery is below a predetermined first current level for a predetermined first period of time. In the second state (B) the battery is allowed to turn power off to the vehicle.

A traction control device and method for a four-wheel drive electric vehicle are disclosed. When the drive wheels of an electric vehicle spin, a drive force of the electric vehicle is controlled so as to restrain the spinning of the drive wheels and to secure the starting performance and acceleration performance of the electric vehicle.

An electrically operated vehicle having a traction battery installed on the underside of the vehicle and a body side structure which has a door entry region on a lateral rocker panel. The vehicle has at least one shielding element which at least partially closes a free distance between the underside of the vehicle and a vehicle standing plane in the event of battery damage, so that the door entry region is shielded from the damaged traction battery installed on the underside of the vehicle.

A method and a control device determine a position-related braking ability of a vehicle. A first vehicle determines at least one piece of position-related information of a route section, the at least one piece of position-related information of the route section being information relating to the braking ability on the route section. The first vehicle transmits the at least one piece of position-related information to a receiver, the receiver being at least one second vehicle, whereby the braking curves of at least one rail vehicle are adapted according to the situation, thus allowing safety on the route section and the utilization of the section to be improved.

A drone includes a drone body, a drone body battery provided in the drone body and responsible for supplying power to the drone body, a parachute kit detachably coupled to the drone body and including a parachute therein, a battery detector provided in the parachute kit and responsible for checking the state of the drone body battery, and a parachute controller for controlling the parachute kit depending on the state of the drone body battery detected by the battery detector.

A system for managing storage of electrical energy can include an electromagnetic machine and a controller. The electromagnetic machine can have a rotor and a stator. The rotor can be configured to be connected to a shaft. One of the rotor or the stator can have first windings and second windings. The controller can be configured to control first circuitry and second circuitry. The first circuitry can be configured to cause energy to flow from a first energy storage device to the first windings to cause the shaft to rotate. The second circuitry can be configured to cause energy to flow selectively: (1) from a second energy storage device to the second windings to cause the shaft to rotate or (2) from the second windings to the second energy storage device to cause the second energy storage device to be charged.