To solve such a problem that fuel economy data play an important role as selection criteria of present automobiles, however, this is because of the premise that no basic configuration difference exists among the present passenger cars from light passenger cars to large passenger cars, and the fuel economy data cannot be used as criteria of an optimum vehicle configuration setting method of a variable configuration automobile as an automobile permitting vehicle configuration change depending on a plurality of travelling states, which is a system achieved through returning to the starting point and reconsidering of passenger car system.
A vehicle configuration setting method of the variable configuration automobile includes setting an optimum vehicle configuration of the variable configuration automobile by comparing energy consumption by travel movement that is the movement of a travelling automobile.
TSUGAWA SADAYUKI
FUKUDA TOSHIO
