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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2013
GM Global Technology Operations Llc, Detroit, MI (US);
Dirk Balzer, Nierstein, DE;
Stipe Dujic, Heusenstamm, DE;
GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A method and a device for supporting a driver of a motor vehicle in utilizing an automatic engine start-stop system of the vehicle is provided. A method includes predetermining or determining a first limit value tthat indicates a time, which, after an engine has been stopped through the start-stop system, has to elapse until an energy saving through the stopping of the engine compared with a continued operation of the engine is obtained. A time currently carried out through the start-stop system is registered, where tis a point of time at which the engine is stopped through the start-stop system and t is a time. A visually, haptically, and/or acoustically perceptible information dependent on the tand Δt(t) from which the driver can gather the time with effect from which the engine stop leads to the energy saving is generated and output.
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