US 12,437,586 B2
Vehicle
Yasunori Wakamatsu, Nagakute (JP); Masatoshi Ishino, Nagakute (JP); Yuuki Arai, Toyota (JP); Takafumi Eguchi, Aichi-ken (JP); and Akihiro Kusada, Yokkaichi (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP); and SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD, Yokkaichi Mie (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP); and SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Yokkaichi Mie (JP)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/374,790.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-159536 (JP), filed on Oct. 3, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0112509 A1, Apr. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. G07C 5/02 (2006.01); B60Q 3/78 (2017.01); B60Q 3/80 (2017.01)
CPC G07C 5/02 (2013.01) [B60Q 3/78 (2017.02); B60Q 3/80 (2017.02)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle comprising:
an illumination device in a vehicle cabin of the vehicle;
a first electronic control unit configured to:
determine whether the vehicle enters a low emission zone where the vehicle needs to travel in an EV mode, and
change a driving mode of the vehicle to the EV mode in response to determining that the vehicle enters the low emission zone; and
a second electronic control unit configured to change a manner of luminescence of the illumination device in response to the first electronic control unit determining that the vehicle enters the low emission zone.