Inventors:
- Dearborn MI, US
Erik BIBERSTEIN - Novi MI, US
Ryan HUNT - Royal Oak MI, US
Jacob DOAN - Novi MI, US
John William SCHMOTZER - Canton MI, US
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC - Dearborn MI
International Classification:
B60W 20/12
B60L 58/12
B60W 10/30
B60W 10/26
Abstract:
An electrified vehicle having an electric machine coupled to a traction battery to selectively propel the vehicle and associated method for the electrified vehicle include receiving trip data from an external server, the trip data including a plurality of road segments of a selected route from a starting location to a destination, each road segment having an associated energy consumption and distance, calculating a distance-to-empty (DTE) based on a remaining trip distance to the destination, available energy of the traction battery, an estimated traction battery energy required for the remaining trip distance, and an overall vehicle efficiency, the estimated traction battery energy being based on a combination of the received segment energy consumption and distance of each remaining segment in the trip, and communicating the DTE to a display within the electrified vehicle to reduce fluctuations in displayed DTE during travel along routes with nonlinear energy consumption (changing energy efficiency).
