Vehicle control apparatus

A vehicle control apparatus comprising:

• a control circuit that independently controls power supply to winding groups, each of the winding groups belonging to one of a plurality of winding systems included in a motor, on a per-winding-system basis based on command values each calculated for a corresponding one of the winding systems in accordance with a target torque to be produced by the motor, wherein
• the control circuit is configured to transition between a first state in which the control circuit causes the winding groups of the plurality of winding systems to produce the target torque and a second state in which one or more winding systems of the plurality of winding systems have failed and the control circuit causes the winding group of the other one or more normal winding systems to produce the target torque, and
• if a sum of the command values or a sum of actual current amounts of the normal winding systems is equal to or below a threshold value that is set with reference to zero or a value close to zero when the one or more winding systems recover to a normal state in the second state, the control circuit transitions from the second state to the first state.