Hybrid vehicle and method for controlling the same

A hybrid vehicle comprising:

• an engine;
• an exhaust pathway which includes a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas from the engine and through which the purified exhaust gas is released;
• a battery pack located near the exhaust pathway;
• and
• a controller that executes, during limp-home traveling of the hybrid vehicle, control in which the battery pack is not charged and discharged, and output suppression control in which output of the engine is suppressed, wherein
• in the output suppression control, when a state in which a temperature of the catalyst is above a threshold value lasts longer than a predetermined time, the controller suppresses the output of the engine as compared to when the temperature of the catalyst is below the threshold value, while maintaining a state in which the engine can output power.

A control method for a hybrid vehicle,

• the hybrid vehicle comprising:
• an engine;
• an exhaust pathway through which exhaust gas from the engine is released;
• and
• a battery pack located near the exhaust pathway,
• the control method comprising:
• detecting an estimated temperature of the battery pack;
• and
• during limp-home traveling of the hybrid vehicle, controlling the battery pack not to be charged and discharged, and when the estimated temperature is above a threshold value, suppressing output of the engine as compared to when the estimated temperature is below the threshold value, while maintaining a state in which the engine can output power.