Patent ID: 7028795

Claim:
A vehicle having a motor and a heat engine as power sources, said vehicle comprising: a fuel cell and a secondary battery as electric power supplies of said motor; a regulation unit that regulates supplies of electric power fed from said fuel cell and said secondary battery to said motor; a control unit that controls operations of said electric power supplies and said power sources according to a driving state of said vehicle, wherein said control unit activates said fuel cell, so as to cause said fuel cell to output a preset electric power, even when it is not required to supply electric power from said fuel cell to said motor; and a power estimation decision unit that determines whether or not said vehicle is in a specific driving state that satisfies a preset condition, in which there is a little possibility of requirement of an increase in total power to be output from said power sources, wherein said control unit reduces the preset electric power when it is determined that said vehicle is in the specific driving state that satisfies the preset condition.