US Patent 11052900 Hybrid vehicle

The hybrid vehicle is configured to control an engine and a motor, such that the vehicle is driven in one drive mode among a plurality of drive modes including a Charge Depleting or CD mode in which electric power in a power storage device is consumed and a Charge Sustaining or CS mode in which state of charge of the power storage device is sustained. When a sequential position is selected by a driver in an accelerator-off state, the hybrid vehicle narrows a range of a braking torque applicable to the vehicle in the CD mode as the drive mode, compared with in the CS mode as the drive mode.