Patent ID: 8918247

Claim:
A vehicle comprising: an internal combustion engine for driving the vehicle; a motor for driving the vehicle; a main heating device for heating a passenger compartment by using cooling water passing through the internal combustion engine as a heat source; an auxiliary heating device for heating the passenger compartment by using a power supply from a battery as a heat source; a driving control portion for performing electric vehicle (EV) travel of the vehicle by driving the motor while setting the internal combustion engine to a stop state and restarting the internal combustion engine as a temperature of the cooling water becomes equal to or less than a predetermined temperature during EV travel; and a heating control portion for controlling the main heating device and the auxiliary heating device in correspondence with a heating request, wherein, when the heating request is output to make the main heating device heat the passenger compartment during travel of the vehicle, the heating control portion reduces a heating degree by the main heating device during EV travel in comparison with non-EV travel and causes the auxiliary heating device to heat the passenger compartment.