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Abstract

A vehicle travels in any travel mode among a plurality of travel modes including a first travel mode of stopping actuation of an internal combustion engine and traveling by an electric motor driving a drive wheel depending on power supply from a power storage device, and a second travel mode of actuating the internal combustion engine and traveling by the electric motor driving the drive wheel depending on at least the power supply from an electric generator. A processor of the vehicle is configured to: when the vehicle is in the first travel mode, transition from the first travel mode to the second travel mode based on continuation of a state for a predetermined delay time, the state being a state where a vehicle-required power required in the vehicle exceeds a threshold; and change the predetermined delay time depending on a remaining amount of the power storage device.

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