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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
May. 29, 2013
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
John W. Harris, Plymouth, MI (US);
Mark D. Malone, Canton, MI (US);
Marian S. Chupa, Dearborn, MI (US);
Chad E. Griffin, Pinckney, OH (US);
William N. Mansur, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Mark R. Laleman, Livonia, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle and a method of controlling a dynamometer mode operation of a vehicle that includes requesting the dynamometer mode; monitoring for at least one non-dynamometer vehicle operating condition; if at least one of the non-dynamometer vehicle operating conditions is detected, prohibiting dynamometer mode; and if none of the non-dynamometer vehicle operating conditions is detected, operating the vehicle in dynamometer mode.