A vehicle drive device includes an oil pump that supplies oil to an electric motor; an oil cooler that is arranged on an oil passage; a bypass oil passage that bypasses the oil cooler; and a control valve that is switched between a first state of regulating the oil from flowing through the oil cooler and a second state of letting the oil flow to the oil cooler; wherein a control unit keeps the control valve in the first state when a temperature of the circulating oil is lower than a predetermined value, and switches the control valve to the second state when the temperature of the circulating oil becomes not lower than the predetermined value; and the control unit changes a voltage command value v of the electric motor to a value smaller than a voltage command value vd corresponding to a required output Pd after elapse of a predetermined period PE1 from a time the control valve is switched to the second state.
