METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A POWERTRAIN OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND ASSOCIATED ELECTRIC VEHICLE
METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A POWERTRAIN OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND ASSOCIATED ELECTRIC VEHICLE
This electric vehicle includes a dog clutch with a first set of teeth driven by an electric motor and a second set of teeth rotatably coupled to a shaft, and an actuator to engage the dog clutch. A method for engaging the dog clutch includes, in this order: detecting a blocking of the dog clutch in a teeth-to-teeth configuration while the actuator tries to engage the dog clutch and while the shaft is rotatably decoupled from output components of the vehicle; rotating the first set of teeth in a first direction, to drive the shaft in rotation by friction between the sets of teeth; and rotating the first set of teeth in a second direction opposite to the first, so that the first set of teeth slip against the second set of teeth, enabling the actuator to fully engage the dog clutch.