Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ashish Naidu

Walter Joseph Ortmann

Victoria Leigh Schein

Thomas Megli

David Alfred Ostrowski

William G Herbert

Mark Anthony Tascillo

Mohan John

Colby Jason Buckman

Sakthish R Sathasivam

Mrudula Uday Orpe

Peter George Brittle

A vehicle includes an electric machine and a controller. The controller is programmed to, in response to releasing an accelerator pedal during a first driving scenario that is based on a first set of navigation data, increase regenerative braking torque of the electric machine to a first value. The controller is further programmed to, in response to releasing the accelerator pedal during a second driving scenario that is based on a second set of navigation data, increase the regenerative braking torque of the electric machine to a second value that is less than the first value.

Regenerative braking control system for a hybrid or electric vehicle

Methods and systems are presented for improving performance of a vehicle operating in a cruise control mode where a controller adjusts torque output from a vehicle to maintain vehicle speed within a desired range. The methods and systems include adapting a vehicle dynamics model and a vehicle fuel consumption map that provide input to nonlinear model predictive controller.

Method and system for vehicle stop/start control

A vehicle includes an engine, a wireless transceiver that receives attribute data, and a controller. The controller selectively shuts down the engine responsive to such requests based on whether a predicted fuel savings associated with a predicted engine off duration is greater than a predicted fuel usage to restart the engine.

Method and system for controlling vehicle engine pull-down

Methods and systems are provided for providing thermal management for components of a vehicle. In one example, a method may include exchanging heat between different coolant systems via a heat exchanger using predicted data indicating estimated coolant temperatures for a vehicle trip and measured data indicating dynamic conditions for the vehicle trip.

Methods and systems for thermal management in a vehicle

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