Patent ID: 8547218

Claim:
A vehicle approach notification control apparatus for an electric motorcycle, comprising: a sound generation device configured to generate a notification sound that is equivalent to engine sound of an engine driven motorcycle of a vehicle category that is the same as a vehicle category of the electric motorcycle, in response to a motor speed of an electric motor or a vehicle speed; and a pseudo engine sound volume storage device configured to store sound volume data of engine sound with respect to the entire running sound upon running of the engine driven motorcycle, wherein said sound generation device is controlled based on the sound volume data stored in said pseudo engine sound volume storage device upon low speed running of said electric motorcycle wherein said vehicle approach notification control apparatus further includes a raindrop sensor for detecting a rain amount and an illuminance sensor for detecting brightness; and said vehicle approach notification control apparatus carries out, in the case where a rainfall state is detected by said raindrop sensor, correction for increasing the sound volume of said sound generation means, but carries out, in the case where it is detected by said illuminance sensor that it is nighttime, correction for decreasing the sound volume of said sound generation device.