Patent ID: 8282532

Claim:
A vehicle drive apparatus, comprising: an oil pump that generates an oil pressure; a hydraulic servo that is connected to the oil pump through an oil passage, and is controllable by an oil pressure; an accumulator that accumulates the oil pressure generated by the oil pump through a branch oil passage that is branched from the oil passage; an electromagnetic switching valve that is disposed in the branch oil passage, and retains the oil pressure of the accumulator while the oil pump is stopped; a switching valve control unit that controls opening and closing of the electromagnetic switching valve; and a restart determining unit that determines whether to restart a vehicle drive source from a stopped state or not, wherein when it is determined by the restart determining unit to restart the vehicle drive source, the switching valve control unit opens the electromagnetic switching valve before restarting of the vehicle drive source is started so as to supply the oil pressure accumulated in the accumulator to the hydraulic servo.