Hybrid vehicle
AssigneeIsuzu Motors Limited
InventorSei KAMAKURA
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Abstract
A hybrid vehicle including: an engine; a battery; a generator for charging the battery; a catalyst that purifies exhaust gas of the engine; a heating device that heats the catalyst by electric power of the battery; and a processor that controls driving of the generator, in which the processor controls the driving of the generator such that an amount of charge of the battery is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value before arrival at a destination where parking for a predetermined duration or longer is expected, and the threshold value is an amount of charge capable of supplying electric power necessary for heating, by the heating device, the catalyst cooled by the parking for the predetermined duration or longer.
Claims10
A hybrid vehicle, comprising:
- an engine;
- a battery;
- a generator for charging the battery;
- a catalyst that purifies exhaust gas of the engine;
- a heating device that heats the catalyst by electric power of the battery;
- and
- a processor that controls driving of the generator, wherein
- the processor controls the driving of the generator such that an amount of charge of the battery is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value before arrival at a destination where parking for a predetermined duration or longer is expected, and
- the threshold value is an amount of charge capable of supplying electric power necessary for heating, by the heating device, the catalyst cooled by the parking for the predetermined duration or longer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.