VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD OF VEHICLE

A vehicle includes a battery, a converter electrically connected to the battery and configured to provide electrical power of the battery to an external load, a navigation device configured to obtain current location information and charging place information, and a controller operatively connected to the battery and the converter, and configured to control the battery and the converter, wherein the controller is further configured to determine a required energy of the vehicle to travel from a current location of the vehicle to a nearest charging place after end of driving and parking of the vehicle, determine a safety state of charge (SOC) value of the battery for ensuring driving of the vehicle to the nearest charging place based on the required energy and a total capacity of the battery, and control the converter to cut off supplying of the power to the external load in response to an SOC of the battery reaches the safety SOC.