Patent ID: 9126599
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: B60K,B60L,B60W,H02K,Y02T

Abstract:
1. An electric vehicle comprising: wheels including a left front wheel and a left rear wheel arranged on a left side of the electric vehicle, and a right front wheel and a right rear wheel arranged on a right side of the electric vehicle, a plurality of motors to individually drive the wheels of the vehicle; a motor control device to control the plurality of motors; a motor abnormality detector to detect an abnormality occurring in each of the motors; and a one side abnormality response controller to control, in the event that an abnormality other than a motor stoppage, occurring in one motor of the motors for one wheel on one side of the electric vehicle left which are arranged at the same forward or rearward position of the vehicle, is detected by the motor abnormality detector, only the other motor for the other wheel, in which no abnormality has been detected, on the other side of electric vehicle, which are arranged at the same forward or rearward position, so that an operating condition of the other motor for the other wheel approaches the same operating condition as that of the one motor in which the abnormality has been detected, wherein the one side abnormality response controller does not control the other motors for the other three wheels besides the one of the motors so controlled.