VEHICLE OF ELECTRIC AUTOMOBILE OR THE LIKE EQUIPPED WITH GAS TURBINE RANGE EXTENDER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide, in a vehicle of an electric automobile or the like equipped with a torque vectoring unit and a gas turbine type range extender, a construction considering effects of the operation of a gas turbine to the control of vehicle behavior.SOLUTION: A vehicle 1 of the invention comprises: a motor operating with electric power supplied from a power storage device B; a power generation device EG generating electric energy to be stored in the power storage device B; a gas turbine GT driving the power generation device; right and left drive wheels 2r driven by the motor; and a torque vectoring unit TV adjusting the distribution of driving torque which is transmitted from the motor to the right and left drive wheels. The vehicle stops the operation of the torque vectoring unit TV in the time of starting the operation of the gas turbine GT and in the time of stopping the same.