Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
HYBRID VEHICLE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

Abstract:

A hybrid vehicle, a control method therefor, and a storage medium which are capable of suppressing changes in an engine sound and vibration even when acceleration is performed at the time of increasing a required driving force are provided. In a hybrid vehicle capable of performing automated driving control for automatically controlling at least acceleration and deceleration of a vehicle, a rotational speed of the engine is gradually increased by a predetermined increase step while maintaining or decelerating a vehicle speed of the hybrid vehicle until an increase timing of a required driving force in a case where it is predicted that the required driving force is required to be increased while the automated driving control is performed, and at least the power generated by the generator is supplied to the motor at the increase timing of the required driving force.