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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2014
Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;
Reimund Limbacher, Ingolstadt, DE;
Oliver Hahne, Lenting, DE;
AUDI AG, Ingolstadt, DE;
Abstract
A method for operating a motor vehicle having a hybrid drive is disclosed. The hybrid drive includes an internal combustion engine, an electric machine having an associated energy store, which can be charged when the electric machine is operated as generator, and an electronically shiftable transmission, the gears of which can be manually upshifted or downshifted by operating a selecting element, wherein the electric machine is switched to generator operation when a lower gear is selected by operating the selecting element at least once or another shifting mode of a transmission control unit leading to a higher rotational speed because of a gear change is selected and, after the gear selection or shifting mode selection, the acceleration of the motor vehicle is not changed or changed only to a predetermined extent by pressing the accelerator pedal.