COOPERATIVE ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL FOR ELECTRIFIED POWERTRAIN VEHICLES

A method of controlling one or more vehicles of a platoon of vehicles includes determining in response to information of forward route conditions of the platoon an opportunity to mitigate braking losses, performing regenerative braking in response to a deceleration output of an cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) system, adjusting an inter-vehicle distance of the CACC system, and performing at least one of the regenerative braking and the adjusting the inter-vehicle distance.