Formulation of gear shift schedule for power performanceThe principle for formulating the best dynamic up shift law was as follows. For the same accelerator pedal opening, if the acceleration curves of two adjacent gears intersect, then the intersection is used as the shift point. If the acceleration curves of the adjacent two gears do not intersect, then the highest vehicle speed of each gear is taken as the shift point, that is, the optimal dynamic shifting law satisfies the following condition:For the same opening of the accelerator pedal, if there was an intersection point in the acceleration curves of two adjacent gears, the intersection point was used as the gear shift point. If there was no intersection point in the acceleration curves of two adjacent gears, the maximum speed of each gear was taken as the gear shift point. To prevent cyclic gear shifting, the interval between the upshift curve and the downshift curve was set as 5 km/h.28Based on the principle of selecting the shear shift point for the optimal power performance, the gear shift schedule curve for optimal power performance was obtained (Figure 6). In Figure 6, the points on the black curve are the points where second gear was shifted to first gear for different openings of the acceleration pedal, and the points on the red curve are where first gear was shifted to second gear. The corresponding abscissa of each point was the gear shift speed, and the ordinate was the opening of the acceleration pedal. In this study, the speed corresponding to the gear shift point of the battery electric passenger vehicle varied from 24 to 27 km/h. As the opening of the accelerator pedal gradually increased, the speed of the vehicle during gear shifting generally increased. When the accelerator pedal was 80% open, the speed of the vehicle was slightly reduced to 24.3 km/h, which was related to the selection of the intersection point in the acceleration curves of two adjacent gears. Such a gear shifting schedule curve ensures that the gear can be smoothly shifted for different openings of the accelerator pedal to improve the power performance of the vehicle.