Patent ID: 8684119

Claim:
A vehicle comprising: a body frame having a length extending in a front-to-back direction of the vehicle and a width extending in a widthwise direction of the vehicle; a pair of left and right front wheels carried by the body frame; a pair of left and right rear wheels carried by the body frame; an engine unit carried by the body frame and including a crankcase arranged between the pair of front wheels and the pair of rear wheels in the front-to-back direction of the vehicle, a cylinder extending upward from the crankcase, and a transmission case housing a V-belt transmission, the transmission case being arranged to one side of the crankcase in the widthwise direction of the vehicle, the transmission case including a front edge and a rear edge extending in the widthwise direction of the vehicle and defining a front transmission case plane and a rear transmission case plane, respectively, each extending in a vertical direction; and a battery carried by the body frame, arranged rearward of the cylinder in the front-to-back direction of the vehicle, and including a left side and a right side extending in the front-to-back direction of the vehicle and a front side and a rear side extending in the widthwise direction of the vehicle, the left and right sides of the battery being longer than the front and rear sides of the battery, and each of the left, right, front, and rear sides of the battery define a plane extending in the vertical direction; wherein the rear side of the battery overlaps the transmission case in the widthwise direction of the vehicle in a plan view of the vehicle; and the battery and the transmission case are located on opposite sides of a centerline of the vehicle running through a widthwise center of the vehicle.