Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha

Gen Mizutani

Jun Taue

Toru Kido

In an electric vehicle driven by a drive motor with electric power generated by an engine-driven generator and with electric power from a battery, the electric vehicle includes a residual battery power detecting module for detecting a residual power capacity of the battery, and a motor control module. When the residual power capacity decreases below an established (e.g., preset) lower limit, the motor control module lowers a voltage of an accelerator output signal, which is output in response to a rotational angle of an accelerator, to a value less than a voltage given under a condition where the residual power capacity is greater than or equal to an established (e.g., preset) lower limit. In this manner, the larger rotational movement of the accelerator required to control a rotational speed of the drive motor provides a rider with a sensory indication of the operating state of the vehicle (e.g., the residual power capacity of the battery).

Electric vehicle

A vehicle image display apparatus includes a traveling condition judging unit for repeatedly judging the traveling condition of a vehicle, an operating unit for generating a parameter for abstractly representing the traveling condition of the vehicle based on the previous traveling condition and the current traveling condition currently judged by the traveling condition judging unit, and a display unit for displaying an image which biologically represents the traveling condition of the vehicle based on the parameter generated by the operating unit. The parameter for abstractly representing the traveling condition of the vehicle includes, for example, a hard/easy parameter representing a hard/easy condition.

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Shizuoka-ken, Japan

Gen Mizutani