Patent ID: 8676418

Claim:
A control system for a hybrid vehicle capable of traveling by motive power from at least one of an internal combustion engine and a rotary electric machine, comprising: an EV switch that is operated when a travel of the vehicle in an EV mode is to be selected, in the EV mode priority is given to an EV travel in which the vehicle travels by the motive power only from the rotary electric machine; and a control apparatus that obtains information about a state of operation of the EV switch, and the control apparatus controls a state of travel of the vehicle according to the information about the state of operation obtained, wherein the control apparatus includes: an obtainment portion that executes an operation information obtainment control of obtaining information that the EV switch has been operated; a permission preparation portion that starts a permission preparation control for causing a transition from a state in which a situation of the vehicle satisfies a predetermined EV mode reservation condition to a state in which the situation of the vehicle satisfies a predetermined EV mode permission condition if the situation of the vehicle does not satisfy the EV mode permission condition but satisfies the EV mode reservation condition when the EV switch has been operated; and a standby control portion checks that a permission standby state in which a transition to an EV mode travel control is feasible is present, after the EV mode condition is satisfied due to the permission preparation control, wherein the control apparatus is configured to be able to perform a transition to the EV mode travel control when the EV mode permission condition is satisfied, and wherein the travel of the vehicle in the EV mode is controlled in the EV mode travel control.