Patent ID: 8181726

Claim:
A vehicle having at least one electric machine that can be operated as a generator, service brakes, an electrical energy accumulator, a control unit for controlling the at least one electric machine and the electrical energy accumulator, so that in a recovery phase the vehicle can be decelerated by a generator load of the at least one electric machine operated as the generator and resulting electrical energy can be stored in the electrical energy accumulator and a vehicle mounted operator control element for inputting to the control unit a desired deceleration and for triggering the recovery phase, the control unit being configured so that the at least one electric machine that is operated as the generator in the recovery phase is operated by said control unit in a chronologically unlimited fashion with a predefinable overload, and the control unit further being configured to actuate the service brakes of the vehicle if the predefinable overload of the at least one electric machine operated as a generator is determined to be insufficient to implement the desired deceleration that has been inputted from the vehicle mounted operator control element to the control unit.