Patent ID: 8453782

Claim:
An electric vehicle, comprising: a vehicle body frame; an electric motor for generating a travel driving force; a swing arm swingably provided in the rear of the vehicle body frame, and pivotally supporting a rear wheel at a rear end of the swing arm; a drive shaft for transmitting the driving force of the electric motor to the wheel; and a suspension connecting the vehicle body frame and the swing arm together, wherein the electric motor is connected to the drive shaft in a way that: the electric motor is set in a longitudinal layout in which a rotating shaft is disposed in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; and the electric motor is disposed, deviated from a center to any one of left and right sides in a vehicle width direction, and wherein the suspension is disposed under the electric motor and the drive shaft, and on the inner sides of the electric motor and the drive shaft in the vehicle width direction, with the position of the suspension in the front-rear direction overlapping the positions of the electric motor and the drive shaft in the front-rear direction.