Patent ID: 8007401

Claim:
A hybrid vehicle drive control apparatus for a vehicle including an engine and a motor-generator, the apparatus comprising: a controller configured to generator to obtain a target drive torque wherein the target drive torque is equal to the sum of determine whether a drive mode requested by a driver is a power mode that attaches greater importance to an acceleration performance than to a fuel consumption efficiency, and to control a motor-generator torque of the motor-generator to obtain a target drive torque that is equal to the sum of an engine torque of the engine and the motor-generator torque, the controller further configured to set a target engine torque of the engine to a power mode engine torque that is larger than an optimum fuel consumption efficiency engine torque when the power mode is requested by the driver, and when the target drive torque is smaller than the power mode engine torque, the motor-generator torque is a negative value and the controller controls the motor-generator to function as a generator, and when the target drive torque is larger than the power mode engine torque, the motor-generator torque is a positive value and the controller controls the motor-generator to function as a motor.