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US 2026/0061986 A1Published application
Methods and system for vehicle tow-haul mode
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsJason Meyer, Judhajit Roy, Jonathan Barker, Naginder Gogna, Sean Santarossa, Chee Haw Chan, Ming Cheng, Aakash Puntambekar, William Cary Cole
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Abstract
A method for operating a hybrid vehicle that operates in charge depletion and charge sustaining modes is described. In one example, a battery charge reserve amount is adjusted according to an altitude of a portion of a road that the hybrid vehicle may travel upon. The portion of the road is based on a radial distance from the hybrid vehicle's present geographical position.
Claims20
A method for operating a vehicle, comprising:
- adjusting a vehicle battery charge reserve amount in response to a maximum altitude of a portion of a road within a predetermined distance of the vehicle, the road having a greatest altitude of a plurality of roads within the predetermined distance of the vehicle;
- and
- adjusting operation of a chemically fueled power source and electric machine in response to the vehicle battery charge reserve amount.
A vehicle, comprising:
- a chemically fueled power source;
- an electric machine;
- a traction battery;
- a human/machine interface;
- and
- a controller including executable instructions stored in non-transitory memory that cause the controller to reference a data structure containing altitude values according to a present geographical location of the vehicle and a predetermined distance, adjust a reserve amount of the traction battery in response to an altitude, and operate the chemically fueled power source and the electric machine according to the reserve amount.
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A method for operating a vehicle, comprising:
- generating a value for a cell in a data structure according to a maximum altitude of a portion of a road that lies within a geographical area represented by the cell;
- storing the value in the cell in the data structure;
- and
- adjusting an electric energy storage device charge reserve amount according to the value.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.