Method and apparatus for entering boost mode with paddles

An apparatus of entering a boost mode with paddles, the apparatus comprising:

• an accelerator pedal position sensor configured to output a sensing value corresponding to an accelerator pedal pressed by a driver;
• a paddle including at least one of an upshift paddle and a downshift paddle, the paddle being mounted near a steering wheel and configured to receive an input independently of the accelerator pedal;
• and
• a controller electrically connected to the accelerator pedal position sensor and the steering-wheel-mounted paddle and configured to use the sensing value received from the accelerator pedal position sensor and shift paddle input information received from the steering-wheel-mounted paddle to perform first determination of whether the driver instructs a vehicle to drive in a boost mode, to use a battery's state of charge, a battery temperature, a motor temperature, and a transmission temperature to perform second determination of whether the vehicle is able to drive in the boost mode, to control an operation of a motor in response to results of the first determination and the second determination, to display whether to switch a current mode of the vehicle to the boost mode on a cluster, and to control a torque increase in the boost mode in different forms according to an input duration applied to the steering-wheel-mounted paddle, the paddle serving as a time-variable manual input dedicated for boost-mode torque control.