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, (iii) a wet multi-plate friction clutch provided in a power transmission path between the power source and the drive wheel and (iv) an electric fluid pump that is to be driven at a pump rotational speed so as to supply a fluid for lubricating the friction clutch,

• the control apparatus comprising:
• a clutch controller configured to place the friction clutch into a slip state, when the vehicle is caused to start running or is caused to run at a running speed within a predetermined small speed range;
• 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;
• and
• a pump controller configured, when it is determined that the running road is the flat road, to set the pump rotational speed to a predetermined flat-road rotational speed, and configured, when it is determined that the running road is the uphill road, to set the pump rotational speed to a predetermined uphill-road rotational speed that is larger than the flat-road rotational speed.