Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Takayoshi Okuda

Toshiya Hashimoto

Hideaki Yaguchi

Koji Yamamoto

In a control apparatus for a vehicle, an ECU includes an operation reception unit that receives depression of a power switch (i.e., a vehicle system activation operation is performed) in a 'ready-off state' as a non-drivable state, and a control execution unit that executes, when the vehicle system activation operation is received by the operation reception unit during running of a hybrid vehicle HV and an engine is started, a startability improvement control for improving startability of the engine as compared with the startability thereof when the vehicle system activation operation is received by the operation reception unit during stop of the hybrid vehicle HV and the engine is started.

Control apparatus for vehicle

If the accelerator is on upon restarting a driving force source in travel mode by the time when the vehicle comes to a standstill after the driving force source is manually operated to stop while the vehicle is traveling, a control device for the vehicle implements first control in which the driving force output to the drive wheels is gradually increased. If the accelerator is on upon switching to the travel mode following restarting of the driving force source in the neutral mode and by the time the vehicle comes to a standstill after the driving force source is manually operated to stop while the vehicle is traveling, the control device implements second control in which the driving force output to the drive wheels is increased. The first control increases the driving force not as much as the second control increases the driving force.

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Nagoya, Japan

Takayoshi Okuda