摘要 |
Raising the charging acceptability of nickel battery. The setting of the initial SOC (state of charge) of hybrid electric vehicle battery to X% (for example 50%) is performed by two steps. The first one is a constant current charge until a fully charged state (S11, S12). Secondly, a discharging is performed until the target SOC of X% is obtained (S13, S14). This enables the interior part of the nickel positive electrode active particles to be assumed as a charged state so that during normal operation, charging and discharging can be performed relatively in the surface layer. This can increase the efficiency of oxidation-reduction in the nickel positive electrode, thereby raising the charging acceptability. <IMAGE> |