ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND CONTROL SYSTEM

Organization Name

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Inventor(s)

Takahiro Uchida of Kasugai-shi JP

Seiji Arakawa of Nisshin-shi JP

Kazuhito Sakai of Mishima-shi JP

Chie Fukuhara of Toyota-shi JP

ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND CONTROL SYSTEM

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18937613 titled 'ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND CONTROL SYSTEM

Original Abstract Submitted

An electric vehicle is configured to be switchable to an autonomous driving mode. The electric vehicle comprises an accelerator pedal, a shift device, a speaker, and a controller. The speaker outputs a pseudo engine sound. When the electric vehicle is not in the autonomous driving mode, the controller changes a motor torque and the pseudo engine sound in response to an operation state of the accelerator pedal and the shift device operated by a driver. When the electric vehicle is in the autonomous driving mode, the controller virtually determines the operation state of the accelerator pedal and the shift device and changes at least one of the motor torque and the pseudo engine sound in response to the virtual operation state.