Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND ELECTRICAL VEHICLE

Abstract:

A management ECU of an electrical vehicle creates a travelling plan in which any one of travelling modes is assigned to each of traveling sections of a scheduled traveling route from a current position of the electrical vehicle to a destination and control the travelling modes based on the travelling plan. When a total estimated value of an amount of electric power required for traveling in each of the traveling sections in a first traveling mode exceeds a current SOC, the management ECU extracts a section in which an output estimated value exceeds a second predetermined value as a planning target section, and creates the traveling plan in which a second traveling mode in which a usage amount of electric power of a storage battery is smaller than that in the first traveling mode is assigned preferentially to a section farther from the electrical vehicle among the planning target sections.