INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE START CONTROL APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM

An internal combustion engine start control apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories communicably coupled thereto. The one or more processors: generate a stop request for an internal combustion engine when an accelerator position based on an operation by a driver is less than a predetermined position threshold, and a start request for the internal combustion engine when the accelerator position becomes the position threshold or greater; learn an accelerator operation characteristic of the driver exhibited when a vehicle starts or accelerates; and execute, based on a result of learning the accelerator operation characteristic, a first start process of starting the internal combustion engine when the accelerator position becomes the position threshold or greater, and a second start process of starting the internal combustion engine after a state in which the accelerator position is the position threshold or greater continues for a predetermined time period.