VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE

A vehicle control device includes a voltage information acquisition unit that acquires respective voltage values of a plurality of battery packs, a voltage value comparison unit that compares, when a state of an accelerator pedal of a vehicle is switched from an ON state to an OFF state, a voltage value of an active battery pack that is being used to drive the vehicle with a voltage value of a standby battery pack having a highest voltage value among the battery packs that are not being used to drive the vehicle on a basis of the voltage values acquired by the voltage information acquisition unit, and a selection unit that selects a drive battery pack allowed to perform discharge to drive the vehicle from among the plurality of battery packs on a basis of the comparison by the voltage value comparison unit.