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US 2016/0244045 A1Published application
Hybrid vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKeita Sato
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Abstract
An ECU can select one of a Charge Depleting (CD) mode and a Charge Sustaining (CS) mode. The ECU changes responsiveness of a vehicle driving torque to an operation of an accelerator pedal between the CD mode and the CS mode such that the responsiveness is higher when the CD mode is selected than when the CS mode is selected. When the responsiveness is changed in accordance with mode switching, the ECU further performs a gradually-changing process for bringing the responsiveness from a value before mode switching closer to a value after mode switching as time progresses.
Claims6
A hybrid vehicle comprising:
- an internal combustion engine;
- a power storage device;
- an electric motor configured to receive electric power from the power storage device to generate travel driving force;
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- a control device configured to select one of a CD (Charge Depleting) mode and a CS (Charge Sustaining) mode, and to switch a traveling mode between a first traveling mode and a second traveling mode in accordance with a traveling condition in each of the CD mode and the CS mode so as to cause the hybrid vehicle to travel, in the first traveling mode by using the electric motor while stopping the internal combustion engine, and in the second traveling mode by operating the internal combustion engine,
- the control device configured to change responsiveness of a vehicle driving torque to an operation of an accelerator pedal between the CD mode and the CS mode such that the responsiveness is higher in the CD mode than in the CS mode,
- when the responsiveness is changed in accordance with mode switching between the CD mode and the CS mode, the control device further performing a gradually-changing process for bringing the responsiveness from a value before the mode switching close to a value after the mode switching as time progresses.
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