Patent ID: 6977473

Claim:
A travel control method for an electric vehicle having left and right electric motors for driving respective left and right drive wheels and left and right brakes for regulating driving speeds of the respective left and right drive wheels, the travel control method comprising the steps of: reading in an accelerator angle from a position of an accelerator lever controlled by a driver; determining an accelerator percentage in accordance with the accelerator angle; reading in ON times of left and right brake buttons operated by the driver to operate the respective left and right brakes; determining left and right brake percentages of the respective left and right brakes in accordance with the respective ON times of the left and right brake buttons; determining a left motor control value by correcting the accelerator percentage with a corrected left brake percentage obtained by applying an influence of the right brake percentage to the left brake percentage; controlling the speed of the left electric motor using the left motor control value; determining a right motor control value by correcting the accelerator percentage with a corrected right brake percentage obtained by applying an influence of the left brake percentage to the right brake percentage; and controlling the speed of the right electric motor using the right motor control value.