Method for operating a motor vehicle and corresponding motor vehicle

• US 9,744,863 B2
• Filed: 10/06/2016
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Audi AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: Audi AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: Schiele, Gnter, Blasinski, Boris
• Primary Examiner(s): Walters, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRIGGS, JAMES J
• Application Number:
  US15/286,633
• Publication Number:
  US 20170096071A1
• Time in Patent Office: 327 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/54 related to batteries
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/60 Navigation input
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/12 by confirmation, e.g. of the input
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2260/52 drive range estimation, e.g. of estimation of available travel distance
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2260/54 Energy consumption estimation
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/10 using propulsion power supplied by engine-driven generators, e.g. generators driven by combustion engines
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/13 Maintaining the SoC within a determined range
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/14 for vehicles propelled by ac motors
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2300/91 Battery charging
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/92 Energy efficient charging or discharging systems for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors specially adapted for vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles

Abstract

A method for operating a motor vehicle includes operating the motor vehicle in a drive mode, a recuperation mode or a charging mode, wherein when operating the motor vehicle in the recuperation mode, a recuperation driving route driven during the recuperation mode and an associated recuperation energy amount are determined and are stored as driving route data in a driving route memory and/or are transmitted to an external data storage device; wherein when switching into the charging mode or when operating the motor vehicle in the charging mode an expected driving route of the motor vehicle is predictively determined and for the expected driving route the driving route data are read out from the driving route memory and/or are requested from external data storage device; wherein the target state of charge is set to a value which is determined from a maximal state of charge of the energy storage and the recuperation energy amount stored in the driving route data.

Claims

1. Method for operating a motor vehicle which has an electrical drive device, said method comprising:

operating the motor vehicle in one of three modes, a drive mode in which an electric machine of the drive device is operated as motor, wherein by means of electrical energy withdrawn from an energy storage a torque that is directed toward an acceleration of the motor vehicle is provided, a recuperation mode in which the electric machine is operated as a generator, wherein a torque that is directed toward a deceleration of the motor vehicle is provided and electrical energy generated thereby is temporarily stored in the energy storage, and a charging mode in which the energy storage is charged with externally provided electrical energy until a predetermined target state of charge is achieved;

when operating the motor vehicle in the recuperation mode, determining a recuperation driving route driven during the recuperation mode and an associated recuperation energy amount and storing the recuperation driving route and the recuperation energy amount as driving route data in a driving route memory or transmitting the driving route data to an external data storage device;

when switching into the charging mode or when operating the motor vehicle in the charging mode predictively determining an expected driving route of the motor vehicle and for the expected driving route reading out the driving route data from the driving route memory or requesting the driving route data from the external data storage device; and

setting the target state of charge to a value which is determined from a maximal state of charge of the energy storage and the recuperation energy amount stored in the driving route data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the expected driving route comprises generating a driving route profile of the motor vehicle and/or calendar using calendar data of a driver of the motor vehicle.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the target state of charge is determined from a first prescribed state of charge or a second prescribed state of charge, wherein the target state of charge is set equal to the second prescribed state of charge when the second prescribed state of charge is greater than the first prescribed state of charge and is set equal to the first prescribed state of charge when the second prescribed state of charge is smaller than the first prescribed state of charge.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first prescribed state of charge corresponds to an amount of energy required for reaching the recuperation driving route stored in the driving route data.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the second prescribed state of charge is set to the maximal state of charge minus the recuperation energy amount.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the amount of energy required to reaching the recuperation driving route stored in the driving route data is added to the second prescribed state of charge.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein when multiple recuperation driving routes are present on the expected driving route only a recuperation driving route encountered first on the expected driving route is taken into account, or taking a recuperation driving route into account that is stored with a greatest recuperation energy amount.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein when multiple recuperation driving routes are present on the expected driving route the second prescribed state of charge is selected so that for the multiple recuperation driving route the state of charge of the energy storage present after each one of the recuperation driving routes is sufficient for reaching a respective following recuperation driving route.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing the driving route data stored in the external data storage device to at least one further motor vehicle.

10. A motor vehicle, comprising an electric drive device, said motor vehicle being configured to be operated in three operating modes a driving mode in which an electric machine of the drive device is operated as motor, wherein by means of electrical energy withdrawn from an energy storage a torque that is directed toward an acceleration of the motor vehicle is provided, a recuperation mode in which the electric machine is operated as a generator, wherein a torque that is directed toward a deceleration of the motor vehicle is provided and electrical energy generated thereby is temporarily stored in the energy storage, and a charging mode in which the energy storage is charged with externally provided electrical energy until a predetermined target state of charge is achieved,

said motor vehicle being configured

when operating in the recuperation mode to determine a recuperation driving route driven during the recuperation mode and an associated recuperation energy amount and to store the recuperation driving route and the recuperation energy amount as driving route data in a driving route memory and/or to transmit the driving route data to an external data storage device,

when switching into the charging mode or when operating in the charging mode to predictively determine an expected driving route of the motor vehicle and for the expected driving route to read out the driving route data from the driving route memory and/or to request the driving route data from the external data storage device, and

to set the target state of charge to a value which is determined from a maximal state of charge of the energy storage and the recuperation energy amount stored in the driving route data.