Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Jochen Schroeder

Michael Etzel

Ferdinand Wiesbeck

Andreas Rank

Christian Glatz

A control system has at least one electronic control unit for controlling an internal combustion engine in a hybrid vehicle, which records at least the vehicle speed and the driver's desired driving performance and the driving performance specified by a safety control system or a driver assistance system. The control unit is designed such that, below a pre-defined vehicle speed threshold and/or in the event of recognition of an urban area, while in a purely electric driving mode, it only engages the internal combustion engine when the current desired driving performance exceeds a pre-defined upper threshold, preferably once the maximum tractive force at the wheel for purely electric driving is at least reached.

Control system comprising at least one electronic control unit for controlling an internal combustion engine in a hybrid vehicle

A circuit arrangement for motor vehicles for characterizing one of several variants of an electrically controllable subassembly is provided. A subassembly is connectable to a coding plug. The coding plug has at least one electric terminal which is directly or indirectly connectable to a measurement input of an analyzer unit. The coding plug has fixed electric wiring by means of which a defined electric state may be generated at the measurement input in the analyzer unit. The electric state is detected in the analyzer unit and compared with stored data, by means of which a defined electric state that can be differentiated from all other states is assigned to each possible variant of the subassembly.

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Jochen Schroeder