US 12,409,739 B2
Battery electric vehicle
Yoichiro Isami, Mishima (JP); Tatsuya Imamura, Okazaki (JP); Kenji Mizutani, Toyota (JP); Tsuyoshi Okada, Nagoya (JP); and Naoki Yamamuro, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Oct. 29, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/930,392.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-190497 (JP), filed on Nov. 8, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0145023 A1, May 8, 2025
Int. Cl. B60L 15/34 (2006.01); B60L 15/20 (2006.01)
CPC B60L 15/2054 (2013.01) [B60L 15/34 (2013.01); B60L 2240/423 (2013.01); B60L 2240/486 (2013.01); B60L 2250/24 (2013.01); B60L 2250/26 (2013.01); B60W 2540/10 (2013.01); B60W 2540/12 (2013.01); B60W 2540/14 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery electric vehicle, comprising:
an electric motor configured to serve as a driving source for the battery electric vehicle;
a driving operation member configured to be used to drive the battery electric vehicle;
a pseudo shifting operation member that imitates an operation member configured to be used to perform a shifting operation of a manual transmission internal combustion engine vehicle; and
a controller configured to control the battery electric vehicle according to an operation of the driving operation member, wherein the controller is configured to
execute, according to selection by a driver, a control mode in which an operation of the pseudo shifting operation member is associated with torque of the electric motor, and
impose, when in the control mode, a restriction on an operation the battery electric vehicle performs in response to the operation of the pseudo shifting operation member, the restriction being able to be removed or eased, wherein the controller is further configured to set the restriction when the battery electric vehicle is located within a predetermined area.