Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kenji Oonishi

Koji Hokoi

Hideaki Yaguchi

Hiroki Endo

Kazuma Aoki

Daisuke Itoyama

Mikihisa Arai

Kiyoshiro Ueoka

A hybrid vehicle includes: an engine configured to output power for traveling; a motor configured to output power for traveling; a switch configured to set a fuel economy priority mode, in which priority is given to fuel economy, and to cancel the fuel economy priority mode; and a controller configured (a) to operate the engine and the motor based on the switch setting; (b) to determine the presence/absence of degradation of fuel supplied to the engine; and (c) to prohibit setting of the fuel economy priority mode by the switch subsequently when determination is made that the fuel has degraded when the hybrid vehicle travels using power of the motor in a state in which the drive of the engine is stopped.

Hybrid vehicle and control method therefor

An ECU releases brake hold control when an actual accelerator pedal position A exceeds a predetermined position A() while the brake hold control is being executed. Further, the ECU determines whether or not the actual accelerator pedal position A is larger than a position A(), which is a value smaller than the predetermined position A(), and if it is larger than the predetermined position A(), executes a process for increasing a creep torque reflection ratio R to recover creep force that has been stopped.

Vehicle controller and control method

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