BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLE

Organization Name

toyota jidosha kabushiki kaisha

Inventor(s)

Yoichiro Isami of Mishima-shi JP

Tatsuya Imamura of Okazaki-shi JP

Kenji Mizutani of Toyota-shi JP

Tsuyoshi Okada of Nagoya-shi JP

Naoki Yamamuro of Nagoya-shi JP

BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLE

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250145023 titled 'BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLE

Original Abstract Submitted

a battery electric vehicle includes: a driving operation member configured to be used to drive the battery electric vehicle; and a pseudo shifting operation member that imitates an operation member configured to be used to perform a shifting operation of a manual transmission internal combustion engine vehicle. a controller that controls the battery electric vehicle is configured to execute, according to selection by a driver, a control mode in which an operation of the pseudo shifting operation member is associated with torque of the electric motor. the controller is further configured to impose, when in the control mode, a restriction on an operation the battery electric vehicle performs in response to the operation of the pseudo shifting operation member, the restriction being able to be removed or eased.