Patent ID: 11881590
Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  Y | IPC B  H

Claim 0:
1. An electric vehicle comprising an electric motor, an engine, a battery case disposed on a lower face of a floor panel and housing battery modules for driving the electric motor, an exhaust passage member extending rearward from the engine, and a front seat and a rear seat disposed on an upper face of the floor panel,
wherein the battery case comprises a first battery case and a second battery case that are formed independently so as to each house a separate battery module, the second battery case has a smaller size than a size of the first battery case and is disposed on an upper front part of the first battery case, the second battery case is disposed below a front part of a seat cushion of the rear seat, a cooling medium jacket cooling the second battery case from an outside of the second battery case is formed between a case upper wall of the first battery case and a case lower wall of the second battery case, a recess portion extending in a fore-and-aft direction and having at least part of the exhaust passage member passing therethrough is formed in a lower face of a middle part in a vehicle width direction of the first battery case, the battery modules housed in the first battery case are disposed on left and right sides of the recess portion, and the battery module housed in the second battery case is disposed so that a longitudinal direction thereof follows the vehicle width direction.