摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform permission of selection of a travel mode and automatic return to the travel mode at appropriate timing responding to a request of a driver and the remaining capacity of an electricity storage device. <P>SOLUTION: Under selection of an HV travel mode, and when SOC (State Of Charge) of a storage device is more than threshold D, an ECU (Electronic Control Unit) permits selection of an EV travel mode by operation of driver's EV travel priority switch, while changing a segment 3 into a green lighting condition, in addition to changing segments 1 and 2 into a white lighting condition, and when the SOC of the storage device is more than threshold E, while changing a segment 4 into a green lighting condition, in addition to changing the segments 1-3 into the lighting condition, makes it automatically return to EV travel mode. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |