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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2012
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Shinya Kobayashi, Utsunomiya, JP;
Dai Saitoh, Shimotsuke, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a method of controlling an electric vehicle capable of preferably performing a regenerative control when a plurality of forward driving ranges are shifted to each other. During travelling on a downhill road, an electric vehicle executes a downhill regenerative control for adjusting the regenerative amount of an electric motor so that acceleration obtained when an accelerator is closed becomes a downhill acceleration according to a road surface slope. The downhill acceleration obtained when a second forward driving range is selected, in which the deceleration of the electric vehicle becomes larger than that in a first forward driving range, is smaller over the entire range of the set road surface slope than the downhill acceleration obtained when the first forward driving range is selected.