Patent ID: 11904701
Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  H  Y | IPC B  G  H

Claim 9:
10. An apparatus of producing a virtual after-burn effect in an electric vehicle, the apparatus comprising:
a driving information detection unit configured to detect vehicle driving information while driving of the electric vehicle;
a controller configured to determine virtual variable information in an engine according to the vehicle driving information detected by the driving information detection unit, to determine the virtual after-burn effect according to the determined virtual variable information in the engine, and to output a control signal for producing the virtual after-burn effect according to the determined virtual after-burn effect characteristic; and
an effect-production apparatus mounted on the electric vehicle to be controlled to produce the virtual after-burn effect according to the control signal output from the controller,
wherein the virtual after-burn effect characteristic includes a time point at which the virtual after-burn effect is initially produced through the effect-production apparatus.