Patent ID: 7384357

Claim:
A drive unit for a motor vehicle, comprising: an electric motor; a first and second output shafts; a gear unit including first and second simple planetary gearsets, each gearset including a sun gear, a ring gear, a carrier, and a set of planet pinions supported on the carrier and engaged with the sun gear and the ring gear of the corresponding gearset, the ring gear of the first and second gearsets being fixed against rotation, each gearset each including an output and an input, the input of the first gearset being driveably connected to the motor, the output of the first gearset being driveably connected to the input of the second gearset; and a compound planetary differential gearset including an input driveably connected to the output of the second gearset, a first differential output driveably connected to the first output shaft, and a second differential output driveably connected to the second output shaft.