Vehicle and Method of Control Thereof
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May 5, 2016
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Jul 15, 2014
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Jul 15, 2013
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A controller for a motor vehicle, the vehicle comprising: drive means operable to provide motive power to the vehicle, the drive means being operable automatically to be switched off and subsequently restarted during a drive-cycle thereby to reduce an amount of time for which the drive means is on during a given drivecycle, and a transmission operable to be connected to and disconnected from the drive means, the controller comprising an input for receiving vehicle data; processing means arranged to determine control signals for controlling the transmission in dependence on the vehicle data received at the inputs; and an output arranged to output the determined control signals to the transmission, wherein the processing means is arranged to determine a drive means restart type, to determine the control signals for controlling the transmission in dependence on the drive means restart type and, in the event that the processing means determines that the restart type is a system requested restart, the processing means is arranged to maintain the transmission in a state of disconnection from the drive means.
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