Electrified vehicle

Abstract

A vehicle can travel by using electric power, and includes a battery including a single cell that can store electric power for traveling and a power-conducting component through which a current flows outside the single cell, an MG, a cooling and temperature-raising device that cools the power-conducting component, and a CPU of an ECU. The CPU controls, in a case where there is a request to operate the MG at a predetermined output or higher, the cooling and temperature-raising device to cool the power-conducting component at least during a period from when the request is received to when the predetermined output or higher is generated. As a result, the power-conducting component of the battery is cooled in advance before being heated during the period from when the request to operate the MG at the predetermined output or higher is received to when the predetermined output or higher is generated.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.