Patent ID: 8955627
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: B60K,B60Y,B62K

Abstract:
1. An electric vehicle, comprising: a vehicle body; a drive wheel; an electric motor for driving said drive wheel; at least two batteries having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape; and a swing arm swingably mounted to said vehicle body by a pivot shaft, said swing arm comprising a wide case portion disposed directly in front of an arm portion, in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body, said wide case portion being wider than said arm portion, in a vehicle width direction, wherein said wide case portion houses said at least two batteries, wherein said arm portion houses said electric motor, and wherein said swing arm includes a protruding portion forming an air reservoir space above said at least two batteries, said protruding portion being a roof portion of said wide case portion, wherein said electric vehicle further comprises a cooling duct for causing traveling wind introduced from a front of said vehicle body to blow onto said protruding portion, and wherein said cooling duct includes an exhaust port disposed forward of said protruding portion, such that a space is present between said exhaust port and said protruding portion.