HYBRID VEHICLE

摘要

To protect an electricity storing means and improve engine startability at the same time by starting an engine while suppressing degradation of the electricity storing means as small as possible. Provided is a hybrid vehicle including: a charge state calculation means which calculates a charge state of the electricity storing means; a standard opening and closing means which turns off a contactor when the charge state calculated by the charge state calculation means is lower than a standard lower-limit value; and an engine startup opening and closing means which maintains the contactor in an on state when an engine startup signal is input even when the charge state calculated by the charge state calculation means is a value for turning off the contactor, wherein the contactor turning-on operation executed by the engine startup opening and closing means is executed when the charge state calculated by the charge state calculation means is higher than an engine startup lower-limit value set lower than the standard lower-limit value by a predetermined value.