PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE

A processing apparatus to be applied to an electric vehicle includes a vehicle processor and a battery processor. The vehicle processor is configured to control driving of a travel motor of the electric vehicle to cause an output of a battery of the electric vehicle to become less than or equal to an output upper limit of the battery. The battery processor is configured to monitor a state of the battery. The vehicle processor is configured to operate in a control mode including a boost mode. The boost mode is designed to temporarily raise the output upper limit in response to an operation of a boost operation member of the electric vehicle. The vehicle processor is configured to determine whether to permit the boost mode, based on a degradation state amount of the battery.