Patent ID: 8909408

Claim:
A vehicle control apparatus applied to a vehicle including: an internal-combustion engine and an electric motor provided as running power sources; a manual transmission to which a torque of each of the internal-combustion engine and the electric motor is inputted, and to which a driver is allowed to perform a start shift manipulation in order to switch from a neutral position to a predetermined start shift position; and a clutch to which the driver is allowed to perform a release manipulation in order to interrupt a torque transmission between the internal-combustion engine and the manual transmission, the vehicle control apparatus including at least one Electronic Control Unit (ECU) and comprising: a start-up controlling device, which the ECU is programmed to function as, configured to start up the internal-combustion engine under at least one condition that, in a state that the internal-combustion engine is stopped and also the vehicle is stopped, the release manipulation is performed to the clutch and also the start shift manipulation is performed to the manual transmission; a neutral-position detecting device configured to output a detection signal when the manual transmission is at the neutral position; and a torque providing controlling device, which the ECU is programmed to function as, configured to execute a torque providing control to control the electric motor such that the torque is inputted to the manual transmission when the neutral-position detecting device outputs the detection signal in the state that the internal-combustion engine is stopped and also the vehicle is stopped, wherein the start-up controlling device is configured to start up the internal-combustion engine when the release manipulation is performed to the clutch in a case that a change of input-side rotating speed of the manual transmission caused by the torque providing control does not satisfy a predetermined criterion.