ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN VEHICLE

An electric drive vehicle 1 is equipped with a battery 12 usable for traveling and chargeable by an external power supply 40 and a vehicle-side ECU 50 that permits the battery 12 to be charged by a power generating unit 11 capable of charging the battery in a case where power supplied from the external power supply 40 is smaller than a predetermined threshold value ± that is defined with regard to an acceptable power W of the battery 12. More specifically, the vehicle-side ECU 50 permits the battery to be charged by the power generating unit 11 in a case where power supplied from the external power supply 40 is smaller than the predetermined threshold value ± and a parallel charging request switch 72 is operated so as to execute parallel charging.