US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 26 for "Battery electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,960, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery electric vehicle" was invented by Kentaroh Kanzaki (Toyota, Japan), Yoichiro Isami (Mishima, Japan), Yusuke Furuhashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Naruto Yamane (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery electric vehicle includes an electric motor as a driving source. The battery electric vehicle includes: an accelerator pedal; a pseudo shifter imitating a shifter that is used to perform a shifting operation of a manual transmission internal combustion engine vehicle; and a control device configured to change a relationship among a vehicle speed o...