Kawasaki Motors, Ltd.

Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kosuke Obayashi

Daisuke Kawai

Tatsuya Hirokami

Shohei Terai

Daisuke Yanase

Kyotaro Nakayama

Tomoki Tada

Mengqing Liu

A vehicle includes: a driving wheel; at least one prime mover; a user interface that receives user's selection of a first traveling mode or a second traveling mode; and processing circuitry configured to control the prime mover in accordance with the selected traveling mode. When a selection disabling condition indicating a predetermined vehicle state is satisfied, the processing circuitry disables selection of the first traveling mode which is performed by the user's selection. When the selection disabling condition is satisfied while the vehicle is traveling in the first traveling mode, the processing circuitry continues the first traveling mode until a switching condition indicating a predetermined vehicle state is satisfied. When the selection disabling condition is satisfied while the vehicle is traveling in the first traveling mode, and the switching condition is satisfied, the processing circuitry switches the traveling mode to the second traveling mode regardless of the user's selection.

Method of controlling vehicle and hybrid vehicle

A control apparatus of a hybrid leaning vehicle includes: a travel mode request section that requests one travel mode selected from a plurality of travel modes including a first travel mode in which an engine is stopped and an electric motor is operated and a second travel mode in which the engine is operated; and a travel mode setting section. When the travel mode request section requests the second travel mode during travel in the first travel mode, the travel mode setting section, upon determining that a steady turning condition is satisfied, sets the second travel mode as the travel mode to be executed and, upon determining that the steady turning condition is not satisfied, prohibits the second travel mode from being set as the travel mode to be executed.

Control apparatus of hybrid leaning vehicle

A control apparatus of a hybrid leaning vehicle includes: a travel mode request section that requests one travel mode selected from a plurality of travel modes including a first travel mode in which an engine is operated with a clutch disengaged and a second travel mode in which the engine is operated with the clutch engaged; and a travel mode setting section. When the travel mode request section requests the second travel mode during travel in the first travel mode, the travel mode setting section, upon determining that a shock accepting condition is satisfied, sets the second travel mode as the travel mode to be executed and, upon determining that the shock accepting condition is not satisfied, prohibits the second travel mode from being set as the travel mode to be executed.

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Nishinomiya, Japan

Kosuke Obayashi