Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

JongGap Kim

Shoichi Shono

Akihiro Ueda

Yoshikazu Motozono

Norimi Asahara

Masafumi Uchihara

Provided is a vehicle control apparatus that can improve a gasoline mileage without imparting the sense of discomfort to a driver. When an ECU determines that the brake is turned ON during an N inertia travel control ('YES' in step S), the ECU stores a current position and a current vehicle speed in a learning DB (Step). Next, the ECU matches a data of the current position and the vehicle speed similar to the data of the current position and the vehicle speed stored this time, with reference to the information associated with a section inclusive of the current position (Step S). Thereafter, when the ECU determines that there are equal to or more than a predetermined number of similar cases ('YES' in step S), the ECU sets the section referenced in the step Sas an N inertia travel prohibition section.

Vehicle control apparatus

A vehicular drive control apparatus provided with pulse-driving and gliding means for setting upper limit Vhi and lower limit Vlo of running speed V of a vehicle according to an upper and lower vehicle speed limit maps, and on the basis of target running speed Vt which is the running speed V at a time when control initiating conditions have been satisfied, and running the vehicle in P & G running mode by alternately repeating pulse-driving run (accelerating run) and gliding run (decelerating run) of the vehicle at the running speed V varying between the set upper and lower limits Vhi and Vlo, the control initiating conditions including a condition that the vehicle is in a steady running state.

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