Patent ID: 7840337

Claim:
A method for controlling an overrun condition of a hybrid vehicle having a combustion engine, at least one electric motor and an overrun fuel cutoff configured to cut off a fuel supply to the combustion engine when the vehicle is in an overrun condition and to restore the fuel supply when the combustion engine at least one of (a) reaches and (b) falls below a restoring speed, comprising: restoring the fuel supply, at least for the combustion engine at operating temperature, at a restoring speed of at most 200 rpm above an idling speed of the combustion engine; superimposing a torque of the electric motor on the combustion engine as a support for at least one of (a) decelerating the combustion engine and (b) adjusting the combustion engine to the idling speed at least one of (a) before, (b) during and (c) following the restoration of the fuel supply to the combustion engine; wherein the superimposing includes alternately superimposing positive and negative torques of the electric motor on the combustion engine for at least one of (a) decelerating the combustion engine and (b) adjusting the combustion engine to the idling speed.