Patent ID: 8448732
Filing Date: 2013-05-28
Classification: B61C

Abstract:
1. A vehicle driving apparatus that is disposed in a vehicle having a side cover at an underfloor side of a vehicle body and that runs the vehicle, with an electric motor as a power source, by rotatively driving an axle disposed on a chassis of the vehicle and a wheel fixed to the axle, the vehicle driving apparatus comprising: a totally enclosed electric motor that is disposed outside a frame of the chassis placed under a floor of the vehicle body, that includes an outside air ventilating flue through which outside air is suctioned from a suction inlet, circulated and exhausted from an exhaust outlet, and that uses the outside air ventilating flue to release heat generated internally to outside; a shaft that transmits a rotary drive force of the totally enclosed electric motor to the axle; and a ventilating duct that connects between the suction inlet and an opening formed on the side cover.