Abstract: A vehicle moving apparatus executes an autonomous acceleration/deceleration control including a coasting control and an acceleration control. The apparatus continues executing the coasting control until a predetermined time elapses even when a distance between an own vehicle and a preceding vehicle increases and reaches an upper limit value of a predetermined distance range when a moving speed of the own vehicle becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined speed, the moving speed of the own vehicle is greater than a moving speed of the preceding vehicle, and a difference between the moving speed of the own vehicle and the moving speed of the preceding vehicle is equal to or greater than a predetermined speed difference while the coasting control is executed.

Abstract: A vehicle moving apparatus stops executing an autonomous acceleration/deceleration control and executes a control to autonomously control an acceleration and a deceleration of an own vehicle so as to maintain a distance between the own vehicle and a preceding vehicle when there is a following vehicle, and a distance between the preceding vehicle and the following vehicle becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined distance while the autonomous acceleration/deceleration control is executed.

Abstract: A vehicle moving control apparatus executes a regeneration charge coasting control when a stored electricity amount is equal to or smaller than a first deceleration charge threshold while a deceleration condition for decelerating a vehicle is satisfied, and executes a normal coasting control when the stored electricity amount of is greater than the first deceleration charge threshold while the deceleration condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A vehicle moving apparatus executes a moving control to autonomously move a vehicle by controlling a power output from an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. When the vehicle is requested to be accelerated while the moving control is not executed, the apparatus keeps the engine deactivated and activates the motor while a requested power is smaller than a first start determination value, and starts to activate the engine when the requested power reaches the first start determination value. When the vehicle is requested to be accelerated while the moving control is executed, the apparatus keeps the engine deactivated and activates the motor while the requested power is smaller than a second start determination value, and starts to activate the engine when the requested power reaches the second start determination value. The second start determination value is smaller than the first start determination value.

Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus includes an on-vehicle sensor and a driving assistance ECU. The ECU detects presence of a preceding vehicle traveling immediately forward of an own vehicle, on the basis of pieces of information from the sensor, chooses the preceding vehicle as a vehicle to follow, and controls a drive apparatus, a braking apparatus, and a steering apparatus such that the own vehicle follows the vehicle to follow. When the own vehicle follows a first vehicle chosen as the vehicle to follow and the speed of the own vehicle or the first vehicle is a predetermined threshold speed or lower, upon determination that the own vehicle can follow a second vehicle traveling faster than the own vehicle in a second lane located adjacent to a first lane in which the own vehicle is traveling, the ECU changes the vehicle to follow from the first vehicle to the second vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle driving assistance apparatus predicts (i) a first consumed energy amount corresponding to a consumed energy amount consumed by a driving apparatus of an own vehicle when executing a first following control and (ii) a second consumed energy amount corresponding to the consumed energy amount consumed by the driving apparatus of the own vehicle when executing the second following control. The apparatus executes the second following control when the second consumed energy amount is smaller than the first consumed energy amount. On the other hand, the apparatus executes the first following control when the second consumed energy amount is equal to or greater than the first consumed energy amount.

Abstract: While an ordinary moving assist control is executed, a vehicle driving assist apparatus stops the ordinary moving assist control and execute an ordinary moving control to accelerate an own vehicle, based on an accelerator pedal operation amount when an accelerator override state is produced due to an operation of an accelerator pedal of the own vehicle. While an economy moving assist control is executed, the vehicle driving assist apparatus accelerates the own vehicle by an optimum acceleration control when an acceleration request condition that the accelerator override state is produced, is satisfied.

Abstract: A vehicle driving assist apparatus sets a lower limit of an enlarged vehicle moving speed control range such that a first lower limit difference is smaller than a second lower limit difference while an enlarged constant speed moving control is executed. The first lower limit difference is a difference between the lower limit of the enlarged vehicle moving speed control range and a set vehicle moving speed when a constant speed acceleration determination change condition is satisfied. The second lower limit difference is the difference between the lower limit of the enlarged vehicle moving speed control range and the set vehicle moving speed when the constant speed acceleration determination change condition is not satisfied. The constant speed acceleration determination change condition is a condition that the set vehicle moving speed is equal to or smaller than a predetermined vehicle moving speed.

Abstract: A vehicle driving assistance system performs traveling assistance control under which an own vehicle automatically travels with. The traveling assistance control includes first constant-speed control for automatically controlling the acceleration of the own vehicle, based on a first vehicle-speed range including a set vehicle speed, such that the vehicle speed of the own vehicle is kept equal to the set vehicle speed, and second constant-speed control for automatically controlling the acceleration of the own vehicle, based on a second vehicle-speed range including the set vehicle speed, such that the vehicle speed of the own vehicle is kept equal to the set vehicle speed. The second vehicle-speed range is set to a wider range than the first vehicle-speed range. The vehicle driving assistance system switches the traveling assistance control between the first constant-speed control and the second constant-speed control, according to the traveling state of the own vehicle.

Abstract: During a hybrid drive, a hybrid vehicle sets an engine required power based on a driving required power and controls an engine to output the engine required power, while controlling a motor to drive the hybrid vehicle with the driving required power. When a catalyst temperature of an exhaust emission control device is equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature that requires warming up, in the state that an output upper limit power which a power storage device is allowed to output is equal to or larger than a predetermined power, the hybrid vehicle sets a power calculated by subtracting the output upper limit power from the driving required power, to the engine required power. In the state that the output upper limit power is smaller than the predetermined power, the hybrid vehicle sets the driving required power to the engine required power.

Abstract: The vehicle driving assist apparatus can execute at least one of an acceleration/deceleration control as a driving assist control to automatically accelerate and decelerate an own vehicle and a steering control as the driving assist control to automatically steer the own vehicle. The vehicle driving assist apparatus includes a driving assist restart switch operated by a driver of the own vehicle to restart the driving assist control. The vehicle driving assist apparatus does not restart the acceleration/deceleration control even when the driving assist restart switch is operated after stopping the acceleration/deceleration control in response to the driver performing an automatic acceleration/deceleration rejection operation. The vehicle driving assist apparatus does not restart the steering control even when the driving assist restart switch is operated after stopping the steering control in response to the driver performing an automatic steering rejection operation.

Abstract: When the state of charge of a power storage device is equal to or higher than a predetermined ratio in a specific acceleration time where an acceleration request is equal to or greater than a predetermined level, a hybrid vehicle controls an engine such that the rotation speed of the engine is not increased in a range of an output limit of the power storage device and that the engine is operated at an operation point on a fuel consumption priority operation line. When the state of charge of the power storage device is lower than the predetermined ratio in the specific acceleration time, the hybrid vehicle controls the engine such that the rotation speed of the engine is not increased in the range of the output limit of the power storage device and that the engine is operated at an operation point on a power priority operation line.

Abstract: When a temperature of a catalyst in an exhaust emission control device mounted in an exhaust system of an engine is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature at a time of a request for stopping the engine, a hybrid vehicle including the engine and a motor continues fuel injection of the engine until satisfaction of a predetermined condition and stops fuel injection of the engine on satisfaction of the predetermined condition. When the temperature of the catalyst is lower than the predetermined temperature at the time of the request for stopping the engine, on the other hand, the hybrid vehicle immediately stops fuel injection of the engine.

Abstract: When the state of charge of a power storage device is equal to or higher than a predetermined ratio in a specific acceleration time where an acceleration request is equal to or greater than a predetermined level, a hybrid vehicle controls an engine such that the rotation speed of the engine is not increased in a range of an output limit of the power storage device and that the engine is operated at an operation point on a fuel consumption priority operation line. When the state of charge of the power storage device is lower than the predetermined ratio in the specific acceleration timer the hybrid vehicle controls the engine such that the rotation speed of the engine is not increased in the range of the output limit of the power storage device and that the engine is operated at an operation point on a power priority operation line.

Abstract: During a hybrid drive, a hybrid vehicle sets an engine required power based on a driving required power and controls an engine to output the engine required power, while controlling a motor to drive the hybrid vehicle with the driving required power. When a catalyst temperature of an exhaust emission control device is equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature that requires warming up, in the state that an output upper limit power which a power storage device is allowed to output is equal to or larger than a predetermined power, the hybrid vehicle sets a power calculated by subtracting the output upper limit power from the driving required power, to the engine required power. In the state that the output upper limit power is smaller than the predetermined power, the hybrid vehicle sets the driving required power to the engine required power.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle comprises an engine configured to output power for driving and equipped with an exhaust emission control device in an exhaust system thereof. The hybrid vehicle further comprises a control device. In response to a predetermined rotation request for rotating the engine with no need to output power from the engine, the control device performs a control to rotate the engine with fuel injection when a catalyst temperature in the exhaust emission control device is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature, while performing a control to rotate the engine without the fuel injection when the catalyst temperature is lower than the predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A power supply apparatus of a vehicle includes: auxiliary machines electrically connected between a battery and a converter; and a control device controlling inverters and the like based on a required vehicle power including a required charge discharge amount of the battery. The control device has a continuous voltage step-up mode and an intermittent voltage step-up mode. In the continuous voltage step-up mode, the control device calculates the required charge discharge amount based on electric power supplied from the battery. In the intermittent voltage step-up mode, the control device changes a method of calculating the required charge discharge amount to a method that calculates the required charge discharge amount based on electric power passing through the converter, and makes the required charge discharge amount smaller than the required charge discharge amount in the continuous voltage step-up mode.

Abstract: A vehicle includes an electric power storage device, an electric motor, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to control charging and discharging of the electric power storage device such that a state of charge becomes a target state of charge, to determine whether or not a degree of deterioration of the electric power storage device due to unevenness in salt concentration is equal to or larger than a predetermined degree, when the degree of deterioration is equal to or larger than the predetermined degree and the state of charge is equal to or less than a predetermined requested state of charge, to set the target state of charge such that the target state of charge increases monotonically, and to set an increase amount or an increase rate of the monotonic increase to be larger as the degree of deterioration is larger.

Abstract: Provided are a power supply device for a vehicle provided with a battery, a converter, and a controller, and a method for controlling the same. The controller controls the converter in a continuous boost mode in which the converter is continuously operated and an intermittent boost mode in which the converter is intermittently operated. The controller does not control the converter in the intermittent boost mode when a control that adjusts a reference point of a resolver of a motor generator is underway.

Abstract: When a temperature of a catalyst in an exhaust emission control device mounted in an exhaust system of an engine is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature at a time of a request for stopping the engine, a hybrid vehicle including the engine and a motor continues fuel injection of the engine until satisfaction of a predetermined condition and stops fuel injection of the engine on satisfaction of the predetermined condition. When the temperature of the catalyst is lower than the predetermined temperature at the time of the request for stopping the engine, on the other hand, the hybrid vehicle immediately stops fuel injection of the engine.