Control apparatus for vehicle

A control apparatus for a vehicle which is to run on a running road and which includes (i) a drive wheel, (ii) a power source and (iii) a friction clutch provided in a power transmission path between the power source and the drive wheel,

• the control apparatus comprising:
• a drive controller configured to control the power source in accordance with a drive demand amount for the vehicle;
• a clutch controller configured to place the friction clutch in a slip state, when the vehicle is to be caused to start running or is to be caused to run at a running speed within a predetermined small speed range;
• and
• a state determiner configured to determine that the running road is an uphill road when a road gradient is not smaller than a predetermined gradient value, and to determine that the running road is a flat road when the road gradient is smaller than the predetermined gradient value,
• wherein the drive controller is configured to set a slip-state target rotational speed that is a target value of a rotational speed of the power source during the slip state of the friction clutch, such that the slip-state target rotational speed is set to a first speed value when it is determined that the running road is the flat road, and such that the slip-state target rotational speed is set to a second speed value that is smaller than the first speed value when it is determined that the running road is the uphill road.