Patent ID: 8655533

Claim:
An electric vehicle comprising: a motor for driving a wheel; a hydraulic brake device for braking the wheel in response to a driver's operation of a brake operation member; and a controller for controlling the motor in response to the driver's operation of an accelerator operation member; wherein the controller includes: a first motor control section for causing the motor to be placed in a regenerative braking mode to generate a first regenerative braking force, when a displacement amount of the accelerator operation member decreases to an amount less than a predetermined reference displacement amount; and a second motor control section for causing the motor to generate a second regenerative braking force which is a sum of the first regenerative braking force and a predetermined additional braking force, in response to the operation of the brake operation member; and the second motor control section is configured to decrease the second regenerative braking force according to a decrease in a vehicle speed of the electric vehicle.