Patent ID: 9174638
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: B60K,B60W,B60Y,Y02T,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle that includes: an internal combustion engine, an electrical storage apparatus, at least one electric motor that has an electricity generation function of being driven by the internal combustion engine so as to supply electric power to the electrical storage apparatus and a function of generating drive force, and a charger apparatus configured so as to be supplied with electric power from an electric power supply provided outside the hybrid vehicle and charge the electrical storage apparatus, and that is able to drive with at least two drive modes that include a first mode in which priority is given to a drive with the internal combustion engine stopped and with only the electric motor used as a drive force source of the hybrid vehicle, and a second mode in which the internal combustion engine is operated and a state quantity that indicates state of charge of the electrical storage apparatus is kept at a predetermined target the control apparatus comprising: an electronic control unit configured to execute: setting the drive mode to the first mode after charging of the electrical storage apparatus by the charger apparatus ends as the state of charge of the electrical storage apparatus reaches a first predetermined range; switching the drive mode to the second mode if, after the hybrid vehicle starts driving in the first mode, the state of charge of the electrical storage apparatus declines to a second predetermined range that is lower than the first predetermined range; and determining that the electrical storage apparatus has degraded when a degree of a capacity decline of the electrical storage apparatus is lower than a predetermined threshold, the degradation of the electric storage apparatus is a decline in a full charge capacity of the electric storage apparatus, the degree of the capacity decline is calculated based on data that is collected from a time when the hybrid vehicle starts driving in the first mode until a time when the drive mode is switched to the second mode, the predetermined threshold is different than the first predetermined range and the second predetermined range.