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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2013
Jaguar Land Rover Limited, Coventry, GB;
Clement Dextreit, Coventry, GB;
Jaguar Land Rover Limited, Whitley, Coventry, GB;
Abstract
The invention relates to a controller () for a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), the controller () being operable to control a HEV to assume a HEV mode of operation in which each of a plurality of actuators () of a HEV is controlled to assume a prescribed operational state, the controller being configured to control a HEV to assume an operational mode responsive to data in respect of a route of a journey to be made by a HEV, a route comprising at least one route segment, the controller () being configured to determine a target state of charge of an energy storage device () of a HEV for each said at least one route segment being a state of charge of an energy storage device () that is to be achieved at the end of said at least one segment responsive to the data in respect of a route, the controller () being further configured to control the HEV to achieve the target state of charge at the end of said at least one segment.