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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2010
Yutaka Tamagawa, Saitama, JP;
Yutaka Tamagawa, Saitama, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a controller for a hybrid vehicle which can improve fuel consumption performance and driveability. A controller for a hybrid vehicle which can run in an EV drive mode in which an electric motoris driven by electric power of a batteryonly and a series drive mode in which the electric motoris driven by electric power generated by a generatorusing power of an engineincludes a demanded driving force calculation unit, a demanded electric power calculation unit, an available uppermost outputting value setting unit, and an engine starting determination unit. The engine starting determination unit starts the engineso that the vehicle runs in the series drive mode when the demanded electric power demanded of the electric motorexceeds the available uppermost outputting value.