Patent ID: 7317985

Claim:
A motor vehicle, comprising: an internal combustion engine that outputs driving power used for driving said motor vehicle; a generator that consumes the output power of the internal combustion engine and generates electric power; an accumulator that is chargeable with the electric power generated by the generator; a heating system that heats a passenger compartment of said motor vehicle with the internal combustion engine as a heat source and sets on and off a heating drive request as a drive request of the internal combustion engine, based on the temperature of the internal combustion engine; and a control device comprising a power drive request setting module and a control module, said power drive request setting module sets on and off a power drive request as another drive request of the internal combustion engine, based on a preset vehicle power demand including the driving power, in a power drive request state where the power drive request is set on by said power drive request setting module, said control module controlling the internal combustion engine and the generator to make the internal combustion engine output a power corresponding to the preset vehicle power demand, in a heating drive request state where the power drive request is set off by said power drive request setting module but the heating drive request is set on by the heating system, said control module controlling the internal combustion engine and the generator to start load operation of the internal combustion engine, and in a non-request state where both the power drive request and the heating drive request are set off by said power drive request setting module and by the heating system, said control module controlling the internal combustion engine and the generator to stop operation of the internal combustion engine.