Control apparatus for vehicle

A control apparatus for a vehicle that includes:

• (a) an engine;
• (b) drive wheels;
• (c) an electric motor connected, in a power transmittable manner, to a power transmission path between the engine and the drive wheels;
• (d) a clutch provided between the engine and the electric motor in the power transmission path;
• and (e) a transmission provided between the electric motor and the drive wheels,
• the control apparatus comprising:
• a clutch control portion configured, upon starting of the engine, to execute a synchronous control for switching an operation state of the clutch from a released state to an engaged state, by increasing a torque capacity of the clutch such that synchronization of an input rotational speed and an output rotational speed of the clutch is completed;
• an engine control portion configured, upon the starting of the engine, to increase an output torque of the engine;
• a transmission control portion configured to execute a shift control of the transmission;
• an overlapping-prediction determination portion configured to determine whether or not it is predicted that, during execution of the synchronous control, a synchronization-completion time point of the clutch overlaps with an inertia phase period from a start to an end of an inertia phase in process of the shift control;
• and
• a torque limitation portion configured, when the overlapping-prediction determination portion determines that it is predicted that the synchronization-completion time point overlaps with the inertia phase period, to execute a torque limitation by which at least one of the torque capacity of the clutch and the output torque of the engine is made smaller than when the overlapping-prediction determination portion determines that it is not predicted that the synchronization-completion time point overlaps with the inertia phase period.