Patent ID: 8215425

Claim:
A vehicle, comprising: an internal combustion engine; a motoring structure connected with an output shaft of the internal combustion engine and with a rotating shaft and configured to motor the internal combustion engine with output of power to the rotating shaft; a motor configured to input and output power from and to the rotating shaft; a transmission configured to transmit power with a change in speed between the rotating shaft and an axle of the vehicle and to decouple the rotating shaft from the axle at a gearshift position of a gearshift lever set to a parking position; and a start controller configured to control the internal combustion engine, the motoring structure, and the motor, in response to a starting instruction of the internal combustion engine at the gearshift position of the gearshift lever set to the parking position, to motor and start the internal combustion engine with restriction of rotation of the rotating shaft by the motor.