US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on June 17 for "Control method for electric vehicle and control device for electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,508, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Control method for electric vehicle and control device for electric vehicle" was invented by Akira Sawada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takashi Nakajima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle includes a motor as a drive source and a coupling portion coupled to another vehicle, and travels while towing the coupled vehicle, which is the other vehicle coupled to the coupling portion. A control method for such an electric vehicle includes: calculating a basic torque target value representing a torque to be output by the motor based on a...