Patent ID: 9610936
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: B60W

Claim:
1. A travel support device that supports travelling of a vehicle from a present location to a destination, wherein the vehicle includes an internal combustion engine and a motor, the motor uses a battery, the motor functions as a drive source of the vehicle in an EV mode, at least the internal combustion engine functions as a drive source of the vehicle in an HV mode, a travel route of the vehicle from the present location to the destination is divided into a plurality of sections, the sections include sections relatively close to the destination and sections relatively distant from the destination, for each of the sections, a travel load of when the vehicle travels in the EV mode in the section is set, the travel support device comprising: a mode planner configured to plan either one of the EV mode and the HV mode as a travel mode for each of the sections; and a section adjuster that adjusts the sections relatively close to the destination to be shorter than the sections relatively distant from the destination, wherein the mode planner is configured to plan one of the EV mode and the HV mode as a travel mode for each of the adjusted sections.