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This paper describes a distributed control strategy for a hybrid electric vehicle, in order to reduce the fuel consumption, and to maintain a reasonable state of charge (SOC), at the end of the drive cycle. The vehicle is like a system built from control nodes, every one of them having the same priority. The control laws are based on the dc-bus signaling, such way that every source of power (control...