MUMBAI, India, June 19 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617057710 A) filed by Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha on May 06, 2026, for Vehicle Control Method, Vehicle Control Device, And Electric Vehicle.
Inventors include Hara, Yoshikazu; Yamanaka, Tomio; and Hiraiwa, Hiroshi.
The application for the patent was published on June 05, 2026, under issue no. 23/2026.
Abstract: The present invention acquires setting information regarding the operation modes of an electric vehicle. When a mode switch of the operation mode is detected on the basis of the setting information, a notification sound for notifying a driver of the mode switch is output from a speaker. The operation modes include a custom mode in which is performed at least one of output control of an electric motor based on operation information of a manual driving element of the electric vehicle and output control of a pseudo engine sound generated on the basis of the operation information. The output form of the notification sound output from the speaker upon detection of switching to the custom mode differs from that of the notification sound output from the speaker upon detection of switching from the custom mode.
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