Patent ID: 8789634
Filing Date: 2014-07-29
Classification: B60K,B60L,Y02T

Abstract:
1. An electric vehicle comprising: a cabin; a floor panel defining a bottom surface of the cabin; and a battery pack mounted under the floor panel and serving as a power source of the vehicle, the battery pack including battery modules having an electricity storage function, a first case holding the battery modules therein, and a power shut-off mechanism temporarily interrupting electric power of the battery modules, the floor panel having an access port communicating between an inside and an outside of the cabin, and the battery pack further including a second case extending upward from an upper surface of the first case adjacent to the floor panel and including the power shut-off mechanism therein, and the second case having an opening for allowing access to the power shut-off mechanism from an outside of the second case, the opening being oriented in an access direction where the power shut-off mechanism is accessed from the access port toward the opening.