Drive partitioning based on energy consumption in driving patterns

A vehicle includes an electric machine, which is adapted to drive the vehicle using battery power. The vehicle also includes a controller that is programmed to operate the electrical machine along a predetermined route on the basis of a superposition of several partitions of the route. Each of the partitions based on a different, associated with the Route force characteristic and defining at least a segment transition, each segment transition defines one end of a preceding segment and a beginning of a subsequent segment. The predetermined route segments are such that no two adjacent segments of the overlay are defined by an equal force characteristic.