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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2024
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Kentaroh Kanzaki, Toyota, JP;
Yoichiro Isami, Mishima, JP;
Yusuke Furuhashi, Nagoya, JP;
Naruto Yamane, Susono, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A battery electric vehicle includes an electric motor as a driving source. The battery electric vehicle includes: an accelerator pedal; a pseudo shifter imitating a shifter that is used to perform a shifting operation of a manual transmission internal combustion engine vehicle; and a control device configured to change a relationship among a vehicle speed of the battery electric vehicle, an accelerator operation amount of the accelerator pedal, and torque of the electric motor in response to an operation of the pseudo shifter. The control device includes a memory storing a vehicle model that models a virtual vehicle, and a processing circuit coupled to the memory and configured to execute the vehicle model. The vehicle model includes an engine model that models a virtual internal combustion engine, a clutch model that models a virtual clutch, a transmission model that models a virtual manual transmission, and a driver model.