Patent ID: 8701801

Claim:
An electric vehicle comprising: four wheels including a left front wheel, a right front wheel, a left rear wheel, and a right rear wheel, wherein a kingpin axis in each wheel intersects with a road surface on a circle inboard of a vehicle body; an in-wheel motor driving device incorporated only in each of the left and the right front wheels, only in each of the left and the right rear wheels, or in all of the wheels; and an independent-steering apparatus for steering all of the wheels, wherein the independent-steering apparatus is a steering-by-wire system including: a handlebar operation-amount sensor; a steering angle control unit for arithmetic control of a steering angle of each wheel based on a handlebar operation-amount signal detected by the handlebar operation-amount sensor; steering actuators controlled by the steering angle control unit; and knuckle arms each connected to one of the steering actuators; wherein each knuckle arm is connected to a knuckle on the wheel side.