Patent ID: 8573340

Claim:
A drive system for one of an agricultural and industrial utility vehicle, with a drive assembly that generates a mechanical torque, a first, a second and a third electrical machine, a first mechanical output interface used to drive at least one vehicle axle, and a second mechanical output interface, where one of the electrical machines is provided with a rotor that is connected, fixed against rotation, to a shaft, where a shaft driven by the drive assembly is connected, so as to rotate, with the shaft of the first electrical machine, and where an operating implement that is coupled to the utility vehicle is operated mechanically with the second mechanical output interface, where one of the shaft of the second electrical machine and the shaft of the third electrical machine is selectively connected with the first mechanical output interface, wherein at least two of the three electrical machines are enclosed in a common housing arrangement in such a way that the shafts of the electrical machines project from a single side of the housing arrangement.