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Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle control device which can effectively improve fuel consumption performance of a whole vehicle by efficiently charging a battery mounted on the vehicle by suppressing deterioration of fuel consumption performance of the vehicle. The vehicle control device includes a re-acceleration prediction unit and a target value calculation unit. The re-acceleration prediction unit predicts re-acceleration from a deceleration state of a vehicle based on external environmental information. The target value calculation unit calculates, based on a prediction result by the re-acceleration prediction unit, a target throttle opening of a throttle for adjusting an amount of air flowing in an engine and a target power generation amount of a power generator for supplying power to a battery by being driven by the engine.

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