ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,384, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Battery electric vehicle" was invented by Yoichiro Isami (Mishima, Japan), Kenji Mizutani (Toyota, Japan), Hirotaka Ikegami (Toyota, Japan) and Akihito Yasue (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery electric vehicle includes an accelerator pedal, a shifter, a mode selector, and a control device. The mode selector selects either an EV mode or an MT mode as a control mode for an electric motor according to a mode selection operation by a driver. When the SOC of a battery is within a predetermined range, the control device controls the electric ...