Patent ID: 8255132

Claim:
A vehicle drive apparatus, comprising: an engine; a continuously variable shifting portion including a differential mechanism for distributing an output of the engine to a first electric motor and a transmitting member and a second electric motor disposed in a power transmitting path between the transmitting member and drive wheels, to be operative as an electrically controlled continuously variable transmission; a shifting portion forming a part of the power transmitting path and operative to engage or disengage an engaging device for thereby executing a shifting; a differential state switching device disposed in the differential mechanism and operative to selectively switch the continuously variable shifting portion in a continuously variable shifting state available to perform an electrically controlled continuously variable shifting operation and a non-continuously variable shifting state disenabling the electrically controlled continuously variable shifting operation; and an engaging control variable control unit that controls the engaging device for the shifting of the shifting portion, and altering a learning method of a control variable of the engaging device based on whether or not the continuously variable shifting portion is placed in the continuously variable shifting state.