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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2020
Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);
Kyle Hollins Wray, Mountain View, CA (US);
Liam Pedersen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard Lui, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Christopher Ostafew, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);
Abstract
Route planning for a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) includes obtaining a route between an origin and a destination, where the route is optimized for at least one of a noise level or energy consumption of an engine of the HEV that is used to charge a battery of the HEV, and where the route comprises respective engine activation actions for at least some segments of the route; and controlling the HEV to follow the segments of the route and to activate the engine according to the respective engine activation actions.