US 12,109,893 B1
Electric vehicle
Yoichiro Isami, Mishima (JP); Kenji Mizutani, Toyota (JP); Hirotaka Ikegami, Toyota (JP); and Akihito Yasue, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Apr. 25, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/646,671.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-072572 (JP), filed on Apr. 26, 2023.
Int. Cl. B60L 15/20 (2006.01); B60K 23/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60L 15/20 (2013.01) [B60K 23/00 (2013.01); B60L 2260/26 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric vehicle having an electric motor for traveling, comprising:
an accelerator pedal;
a paddle type shifter in which upshift operation, downshift operation, and mode switching operation are pre-registered; and
a motor controller for controlling the electric motor,
wherein the motor controller is configured to:
switch a control mode of the electric motor between an automatic mode and a manual mode in response to the mode switching operation to the paddle type shifter,
in the automatic mode, change an output of the electric motor in accordance with operation of the accelerator pedal, and
in the manual mode, change an output characteristic of the electric motor with respect to the operation of the accelerator pedal in accordance with the upshift operation and the downshift operation to the paddle type shifter.