Patent ID: 8376075

Claim:
A saddle-ride electric vehicle comprising: a head pipe steerably supporting a front fork with a front wheel journaled to a lower end portion and a steering handlebar; a main frame extending downward and rearward from the head pipe; and an electric motor generating power for rotatively driving a rear wheel, wherein: a battery supplying electric power to the electric motor is disposed in a space (S 1 ) that is surrounded by a down frame connected to one of the head pipe or a front end portion of the main frame and extending downward, a pivot frame connected to a rear end portion of the main frame and extending downward, and the main frame; and the electric motor is disposed on a side of the rear wheel rather than the space (S 1 ), wherein a plurality of cells is combined with each other to form the battery, wherein the cells are stacked one above the other in multiple vertical stacks, wherein a width of the stacks of the cells adjacent to the down frame is larger in a lateral direction of the vehicle than a width of the stacks of the cells adjacent to the pivot frame.