SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VARIABLE ENERGY REGENERATION CRUISE CONTROL

Systems and methods are provided for implementing variable energy regeneration cruise control, aspects of which may involve dynamically increasing a limit of allowed energy regeneration in order to meet the deceleration need of the vehicle. Aspects leverage variable energy regeneration to allow for the additional energy resulting from deceleration to be stored (e.g., in a vehicle battery) for further use rather than being lost. Consequently, by ultimately providing additional stored energy, aspects of the disclosed variable energy regeneration cruise control system can realize advantages over conventional cruise control systems. A system can be programmed to dynamically adjust an amount of regenerative energy for decelerating a vehicle while a cruise control is activated. A regenerative braking system can decelerate the vehicle and store an amount of captured energy based on the amount of adjusted regenerative energy.