Patent ID: 8521351

Claim:
A creeping-cut control apparatus for an electrically-driven vehicle, wherein the electrically-driven vehicle is configured to run by transmitting power from an electric motor to a road wheel in accordance with a shift range selected by a shift manipulation which is done by a driver to produce a running mode of the vehicle, wherein the electrically-driven vehicle is configured to creep at a very low speed by a creep torque derived from the electric motor, wherein the electrically-driven vehicle is configured to execute a creeping-cut such that the creep torque of the electric motor is reduced when a predetermined creeping-cut permitting condition is satisfied, the creeping-cut control apparatus comprising: an opposite-directional-vehicle-movement detecting section configured to detect that the electrically-driven vehicle is moving in a direction opposite to a running direction of the selected shift range under a state where the creep torque is being outputted without executing the creeping-cut; and a creeping-cut prohibiting section configured to prohibit the creeping-cut even if a speed of the vehicle becomes near 0 to satisfy the creeping-cut permitting condition after the opposite-directional-vehicle-movement detecting section detects that the vehicle has moved in the opposite direction.