HYBRID VEHICLE CONTROLLER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A HYBRID VEHICLE

摘要

The invention relates to a controller (140) for a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), the controller (140) being operable to control a HEV to assume a HEV mode of operation in which each of a plurality of actuators (121, 123) of a HEV is controlled to assume a prescribed operational state, the controller being configured to control a HEV to assume an operational mode responsive to data in respect of a route of a journey to be made by a HEV, a route comprising at least one route segment, the controller (140) being configured to determine a target state of charge of an energy storage device (150) of a HEV for each said at least one route segment being a state of charge of an energy storage device (150) that is to be achieved at the end of said at least one segment responsive to the data in respect of a route, the controller (140) being further configured to control the HEV to achieve the target state of charge at the end of said at least one segment.

主权项

1. A controller operable to control a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) to assume one of a plurality of modes of operation in each of which each of a plurality of actuators of the HEV is controlled to assume a prescribed operational state,
the controller being configured to control the HEV to assume a selected one of the plurality of operational modes in dependence on data in respect of a route of a journey to be made by the HEV, the route comprising at least one route segment, the controller being configured to determine a target state of charge of an energy storage device of the HEV for each said at least one route segment that is to be achieved at the end of said at least one route segment in dependence on the data in respect of the route, the controller being further configured to control the HEV to achieve the target state of charge at the end of said at least one route segment.