Patent ID: 8794365
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: B60K,B60L,B62D,H01M,Y02E,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A hybrid vehicle comprising: a floor panel extending along and about a longitudinal axis defining a longitudinal direction, a width axis defining a widthwise direction and a height axis defining a heightwise direction, the longitudinal axis, the width axis and the height axis perpendicularly intersecting one another at a common point to define a conventional Cartesian coordinate system, the floor panel including a rising portion extending in the longitudinal and widthwise directions a front portion extending in the longitudinal and widthwise directions and a wall face portion extending in the heightwise and widthwise directions and integrally connected to and between the front portion and the rising portion to form a stepped-down configuration from the rising portion to the front portion; a fuel tank that stores liquid fuel burned in an engine serving as a power source of the vehicle; a rear seat provided above the floor panel with a bottom seat portion that supports a passenger, the bottom seat portion having a forward bottom seat section and a rearward bottom seat section integrally connected together at a bottom seat interface as viewed in cross-section along the longitudinal and heightwise directions; rear wheel houses arranged at sides of the vehicle in the widthwise direction and at the rear of the rear seat; and left and right side members having respective top surfaces, the left and right side members extend in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and project upward from each of left and right sides of the front portion so as to support left and right sides of the bottom seat portion of the rear seat with the top surfaces, wherein the rearward bottom seat section facially opposes the rising portion, the rising portion and the wall face portion define, in part, an exterior housing space sized to house the fuel tank, the front portion, the wall face portion and the forward bottom seat section define, in part, an interior housing space, the forward bottom seat section facially opposes the front portion to form a ceiling wall of the interior housing space, the length of the interior housing space, defined by the side members, in the widthwise direction of the vehicle is larger than the distance between the rear wheel houses in order that a first mounting portion and a second mounting portion are formed, the first mounting portion being for mounting a first battery in the interior housing space which stores driving power of an electric motor serving as the power source of the vehicle; and the second mounting portion being formed in the interior housing space as being side by side with the first mounting portion in the widthwise direction of the vehicle so as to mount a second battery which assists a power supply by the first battery.