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Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 17, 2022
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;

Inventor:

Yuki Ogawa, Toyota, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 20/12 (2016.01); B60W 50/08 (2020.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 20/12 (2016.01); B60W 50/082 (2013.01); G01C 21/3461 (2013.01); G01C 21/3469 (2013.01); B60W 2756/10 (2020.02);
Abstract

A travel support control device creates a travel support plan in which one of travel modes including a charge depleting (CD) mode and a charge sustaining (CS) mode is assigned to each travel section of a travel route based on prediction information generated for the travel route, performs travel support control, and calculates a total distance of electric traveling on the travel route as one result of the travel support control. When a hybrid electric vehicle is traveling in an area outside of communication coverage while the travel support control is being performed, the travel support control device stops switching the travel mode based on the travel support plan and keeps calculating the total distance of electric traveling on the travel route.


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