Method for starting an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine

A motor vehicle comprising:

• an internal combustion engine comprising a plurality of cylinders;
• and
• an electronic control device configured to:
• control an electric motor to drive a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine when deactivated to move a piston, which is coupled to the crankshaft and is assigned to a cylinder that is fired first of the plurality of cylinders, to after a top dead center of the cylinder in compression that is fired first, and to move a drive wheel of the motor vehicle coupled to the crankshaft in a torque-transmitting manner,
• introduce a predetermined quantity of working gas into the cylinder that is fired first when starting the internal combustion engine, and
• control a starter of the internal combustion engine such that the starting of the internal combustion engine occurs via an ignition of a mixture within the cylinder that is fired first, wherein
• the mixture comprises the introduced predetermined quantity of working gas and a predetermined quantity of fuel.

A method for starting an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle comprising a plurality of cylinders, comprising:

• driving, while the internal combustion engine is deactivated, a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine using an electric motor to move both:
• a piston, which is coupled to the crankshaft and assigned to a cylinder that is fired first of the plurality of cylinders, to introduce a predetermined quantity of working gas into the cylinder that is fired first;
• and
• a drive wheel of the motor vehicle coupled to the crankshaft in a torque-transmitting manner;
• setting valve stroke of a gas exchange valve of the cylinder that is fired first using a valve control device to introduce the predetermined quantity of working gas into the cylinder that is fired first;
• and
• starting the internal combustion engine via ignition of a mixture comprising the introduced predetermined quantity of working gas and a predetermined quantity of fuel within the cylinder that is fired first.