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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2018
Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Hideki Mito, Tokyo, JP;
Naoki Miyamoto, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fuel maintenance guide system is provided in a hybrid vehicle in which a shift to a fuel maintenance mode prioritizing consumption of fuel is automatically performed under a predetermined condition regardless of a driver's intention. The fuel maintenance guide system includes an information notification unit configured to perform notification of information urging consumption of the fuel, and a control unit configured to estimate a time to shift automatically to the fuel maintenance mode and to begin to perform notifying actuation of the information notification unit a predetermined period of time before the estimated time.