Patent ID: 8423219

Claim:
An electric drive vehicle comprising: a vehicle main body; a battery mounted on the vehicle main body and usable for traveling; and a power generating unit that charges to the battery, further comprising; an operating condition setting part configured for a user of the electric drive vehicle to set an operating condition of the power generating unit to a first mode in which the power generating unit is operated with priority of fuel economy and a second mode in which the power generating unit is operated with priority of output; an operation part configured to operate the power generating unit under the operating condition set by the operating condition setting part; a vehicle traveling condition acquiring part configured to acquire a vehicle traveling condition about a route to a destination of the electric drive vehicle; an estimation part configured to estimate, from the vehicle traveling condition, an amount of charge of the battery consumed in traveling under the vehicle traveling condition; an estimated time calculating part configured to calculate an estimated time necessary for charging the battery to make up the amount of charge estimated by the estimation part under the traveling condition by the power generating unit; a time setting part configured to set an expected time to the destination; and a first notification control part configured to perform a control to notify a driver of an alarm when the estimated time necessary for charging the battery is longer than the expected time to the destination.