NOVELTY - The method involves detecting a current environment of a vehicle by a near field and/or environment detecting device, and determining a future running condition of the vehicle as a function of the detected current environment. A prospective energy requirement for a load of the vehicle for the future running condition is determined. A charging and/or discharging of an energy storage unit are controlled as a function of the determined prospective energy requirement of the load in the future running condition. A drive system of a drive i.e. hybrid drive, of the vehicle is selected.    USE - Method for predictive control of an energy distribution process between an energy converter and an energy storage unit e.g. electrochemical storage unit or electrostatic storage unit such as super capacitor, in a vehicle e.g. electrically propelled vehicle such as motor car or lorry.    ADVANTAGE - The method enables determining the future driving state and determining the estimated energy requirement using a probability calculation to achieve an optimum estimation for the energy requirement or amount of energy able to be saved by the energy distribution process, so that high statistical energy saving is achieved, and traveling or service life of the vehicle is increased. The method enables controlling the charging and/or discharging of the energy storage unit as the function of the determined prospective energy requirement of the load in the future running condition, thus optimizing an energy management of the vehicle. The method enables automatically taking situation-adapted decisions for the energy management of the vehicle based on the energy requirement, so that energy i.e. fuel, is saved, and exhaust gases and pollutant emissions are reduced.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - The load is selected from an onboard network, an actuator, a heater and an air conditioning apparatus of the vehicle. INDEPENDENT CLAIMS are also included for the following:    (1) a device for predictive control of an energy distribution process between an energy converter and an energy storage unit in a vehicle    (2) a computer program product having a data carrier with a program code to perform a method for predictive control of an energy distribution process between an energy converter and an energy storage unit in a vehicle.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The drawing shows a flow diagram illustrating a method for predictive control of an energy distribution process between an energy converters and an energy storage unit in a vehicle.'(Drawing includes non-English language text)'