Patent ID: 8255104

Claim:
A vehicle drive control method for controlling drive torque of a vehicle, the drive torque generated by a plurality of drive sources that drive a plurality of wheels, the drive torque controlled on the basis of a target drive torque, the method comprising the steps of: measuring a vehicle speed; measuring an accelerator position of an accelerator pedal; individually detecting a rate of rotation of the drive sources; individually setting, on a basis of the rate of rotation of each of the drive sources, an individual critical torque to be output by each of the drive sources on an individual basis; calculating a minimum reference torque at the rates of rotation when the accelerator pedal is not depressed for each of the drive sources; setting, on a basis of the total of the individual critical torques, a total critical torque to be output by the drive sources as a whole by subtracting the minimum reference torque from a total of the individual critical torques; and setting a ratio of the target drive torque of the drive sources as a whole to the total critical torque, in response to at least one of an action of an operator and a behavior of the vehicle, wherein setting the ratio of the target drive torque to the total critical torque includes weighting an accelerator position ratio on a basis of the vehicle speed or the accelerator position or both.