Provided is a brake control apparatus of an automobile that drives drive wheels by an electric motor to which electric power is supplied from a battery and obtains a braking force by regenerative braking of the electric motor while charging the battery, including: a speed change process unit configured to increase a rotation speed of the electric motor with respect to a rotation speed of the drive wheels when operating the regenerative braking.

Provided is a brake control apparatus of an automobile that drives drive wheels by an electric motor to which electric power is supplied from a battery and obtains a braking force by regenerative braking of the electric motor while charging the battery, including: a speed change process unit configured to increase a rotation speed of the electric motor with respect to a rotation speed of the drive wheels when operating the regenerative braking.

A control method for a hybrid vehicle including a generator and an electric motor, the generator being configured to charge a battery by use of power of an engine, the electric motor being configured to drive driving wheels by electric power of the battery, is provided, is provided. The control method having controlling the generator and the electric motor and accepting mode setting to set any of a normal mode, a regeneration driving mode, and a silent mode, the regeneration driving mode being a mode in which a regenerative braking force caused by the electric motor is larger than that in the normal mode, the silent mode being a mode in which charging by the engine is inhibited, wherein: when the normal mode is set, setting of the silent mode is not accepted; and when the regeneration driving mode is set, setting of the silent mode is accepted.

An automobile brake control method, a device, and an automobile. The method includes performing a real time monitoring for failure on an automobile brake system in real time; obtaining automobile working condition information when the automobile brake system is in a failure state; generating a failure determination result according to the automobile working condition information in the failure state; generating a reverse-dragging brake instruction corresponding to reverse-dragging brake condition and sending it to a motor controller, enabling the motor controller to perform the reverse-dragging brake according to the reverse-dragging brake instruction when determining the automobile working condition information after the failure of the brake system satisfies the reverse-dragging brake condition corresponding to the failure determination result. The method can control the motor to perform reverse-dragging brake when the brake system fails or the performance is reduced to a certain extent, so as to effectively improve the safety of the automobile.

A method for controlling the regenerative braking torque of a vehicle having a data processing unit for detecting a first information representing a deceleration request of the vehicle, detecting a second information representing a speed of the vehicle, and a first moving member of the vehicle and a second moving member of the vehicle. The method includes determining temperatures of different braking components on different axles, as well as the state of a battery module and a traction and regenerative braking module. The method also includes determining a regenerative braking power dynamic distribution ratio between the first and second axles. A regenerative braking torque is provided to one of the modules.

A vehicle has an electric traction chain to supply a drive torque to the wheels, and an energy management system comprising: a generator set configured to generate a first supply voltage and mechanically disconnected from the wheels in every operating condition; a battery storage assembly configured to generate a second supply voltage; a control unit that implements operative conditions of the vehicle, including: (i) powering the electrical traction chain with the first supply voltage; (ii) powering the electrical traction chain with the second supply voltage; (iii) recharging the storage assembly with a network voltage external to the vehicle and coming from a catenary; (iv) recharging the storage assembly with the first supply voltage; and (v) recharging the storage assembly with a recovered voltage generated by the traction chain operating as an electrical generator.

A vehicle energy management system connectable to a vehicle and configured to control a valve arrangement to deliver a flow of pressurized air to a heat receiving structure when the vehicle is operated in a vehicle braking mode and a temperature level of the heat receiving structure is below a maximum limit of a predetermined temperature range.

The invention relates to a vehicle, preferably a commercial vehicle, a tour coach or a city bus. The electrically drivable vehicle (1) comprises an electric machine (2) that can be operated as a generator, an accumulator for electrical energy (3), an electrically conductive vehicle part, and a control device (5). The accumulator for electrical energy (3) is designed to receive electrical energy (4) from the electric machine (2) and/or to deliver electrical energy (4) to the electric machine (2). The control device (5) is designed, when at least one predetermined energy-dissipation condition is met, to divert electrical energy (4) generated when the electric machine (2) is being operated as a generator to the electrically conductive vehicle part for conversion into thermal energy, wherein the electrically conductive vehicle part is a vehicle frame (6) and/or a vehicle body (7) and/or a bodywork (8).

A regenerative braking energy dissipater system which is adapted to dissipate energy from a regenerative brake in the case when the battery cannot accept further energy. The system may switch the energy flow from the battery to a dissipater when the battery has reached a high level of charge. The dissipater may include load resistors. The system may be designed such that the airflow around the dissipater flows over and under the dissipating plate.

A regenerative braking energy dissipater system which is adapted to dissipate energy from a regenerative brake in the case when the battery cannot accept further energy. The system may switch the energy flow from the battery to a dissipater when the battery has reached a high level of charge. The dissipater may include load resistors. The system may be designed such that the airflow around the dissipater flows over and under the dissipating plate.