To provide an environmentally friendly driving support apparatus, displaying information effective for environmentally friendly driving in a form easily recognized by a driver.
This environmentally friendly driving support apparatus displays an environmentally friendly driving state representing degree of environmental friendliness of the driving state in a hybrid vehicle including an engine and a motor as driving sources. An environmental friendliness determination part 22 performs display control in displaying an environmentally friendly driving state amount in an amount relative to an engine start threshold value G in a graphic form based on an engine start threshold value G for changing from a display showing that the engine is not started from a display showing that the engine is started, and a display change threshold value H for changing from the display showing that the engine is started to the display showing that the engine is not started, which is different from the engine start threshold value G. The engine start threshold value G is used to start the engine under the actual vehicle control.
ISHIO MASAHITO
TOMIYAMA KOICHI
MATSUO TOMOHIRO
SAITO MIKI
TOYOTA MOTOR CORP
| JP2007085859A | 2007-04-05 | |||
| JP2000264093A | 2000-09-26 | |||
| JP2009508036A | 2009-02-26 | |||
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