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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2023
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle including: a battery; a voltage control unit that boosts an output voltage of the battery; a main drive unit, including an engine and a main drive motor driven by electric power with a boosted voltage, that outputs a main driving force for driving one of a front wheel and a rear wheel by at least one of the engine and the main drive motor; a sub drive unit, including a sub drive motor driven by the electric power with the boosted voltage, that outputs a sub driving force for driving another of the front wheel and the rear wheel; and a control unit, in which, when a temperature of the sub drive unit makes equal to or higher than a predetermined value while the main drive unit outputs the main driving force including a driving force of the engine, the control unit increases the boosted voltage.