Patent ID: 8240413

Claim:
A method for controlling a hybrid vehicle drive with an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, which comprises the steps of: specifying a multiplicity of control parameter sets with different recovery torques for a conversion control device for setting a recovery torque of the electric motor in an overrun phase; assigning a respective driving mode indicator to the multiplicity of control parameter sets; defining a current driving mode indicator manually via a driver using a switching device having only two switching positions and being actuable at any time, the switching device defining only two switch positions “S” for a sport mode and “N” for a normal mode, the switching device permitting the driver to select between two driving strategies including a driving-power-optimized strategy defined by the switch position “S” and a strategy which is optimized in terms of fuel consumption defined by the switch position “N”, the switching device being separate from and independent from a gearshift lever of the automobile; using a respective control parameter set, corresponding to the current driving mode indicator, to control the conversion control device in the overrun phase of the hybrid vehicle drive; assigning a first driving mode indicator to a first control parameter set in the sport mode with a first recovery torque; and assigning a second driving mode indicator to a second control parameter set in the normal mode with a second recovery torque, and the first recovery torque is greater than the second recovery torque.