VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE, AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD

摘要

A request to fully charge a battery and a request to execute idling stop are made compatible with each other. A vehicle control apparatus is mounted in a vehicle having an engine, and a battery that can be charged by an electric power generator that is driven by a motive power of the engine. The vehicle control apparatus is equipped with an idling stop control unit 90 that stops the engine, an SOC change amount detection unit that detects an amount of change in a state of charge (an SOC) of the battery, and an execution restriction unit 300 that permits and prohibits stop of the engine by the idling stop control unit 90 in accordance with the amount of change in the SOC. The execution restriction unit 300 determines timings for the permission and the prohibition such that an amount of increase in the SOC at a time when the engine is not stopped by the idling stop control unit becomes larger than an amount of decrease in the SOC at a time when the engine is stopped.