Vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakeshi Goto, Yoshihiko Hiroe
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Abstract
A vehicle includes: a power storage device; a regenerative fuel cell including a water electrolysis device and a fuel cell; a motor generator configured to be driven using electric power of at least one of the power storage device and the fuel cell; a driving wheel configured to be driven by the motor generator; and a control device configured to perform regeneration control of generating regenerative electric power by the motor generator at a time of braking of the vehicle. The control device is configured to supply the regenerative electric power to the water electrolysis device when an SOC of the power storage device is equal to or greater than a predetermined value at a time of performing the regeneration control.
Claims7
A vehicle comprising:
- a power storage device;
- a regenerative fuel cell including a water electrolysis device and a fuel cell;
- a motor generator configured to be driven using electric power of at least one of the power storage device and the fuel cell;
- a driving wheel configured to be driven by the motor generator;
- and
- a control device configured to perform regeneration control of generating regenerative electric power by the motor generator at a time of braking of the vehicle,
- wherein the control device is configured to supply the regenerative electric power to the water electrolysis device when an SOC of the power storage device is equal to or greater than a predetermined value at a time of performing the regeneration control,
- wherein the power storage device includes a lithium-ion battery, and
- wherein the control device is configured to charge the power storage device by supplying the regenerative electric power to the power storage device in a range of a charging current and to supply a remaining regenerative electric power to the water electrolysis device when the SOC of the power storage device is less than the predetermined value, the range of the charging current being a range in which lithium is not deposited in the lithium-ion battery due to charging with the regenerative electric power, the remaining regenerative electric power being the regenerative electric power which is not supplied to the power storage device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.