Patent ID: 7973505

Claim:
An electric vehicle control apparatus, comprising: a drive section including a rotary electric machine and a power source device connected to the rotary electric machine; and a control section for controlling the drive section, wherein: the control section is provided with: a low-fuel-consumption instruction acquisition unit for acquiring a low-fuel-consumption drive instruction from a user; a drive/regeneration judging unit for judging whether the rotary electric machine is in a power drive mode or a regenerative mode; and an output unit that, when the low-fuel-consumption drive instruction is acquired and the drive/regeneration judging unit judges that the rotary electric machine is in the power drive mode, a torque instruction under a limit torque characteristic having limited the maximum power driving torque at the time of normal running free from the low-fuel-consumption drive instruction is output in response to a request torque, and if the drive/regeneration judging unit judges that the rotary electric machine is in a regenerative mode, a torque instruction under the same torque characteristic of the maximum regenerative torque as that of the normal running is output according to the request torque.