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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2023
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Takuya Honjo, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Takeuchi, Tokyo, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle including: a first drive unit for driving wheels; a temperature control circuit for the first drive unit; and a control device, in which, when controlling the first drive unit under a first drive mode and executing a temperature increase control, the control device determines, based on a state of the vehicle, whether the drive mode of the first drive unit is changeable to a second drive mode in which an output from a first drive motor of the first drive unit is reduced, on determining that the drive mode is changeable to the second drive mode, the control device changes the drive mode to the second drive mode and continues the temperature increase control, otherwise the control device maintains the drive mode in the first drive mode, and ends the temperature increase control and then executes the normal temperature control.