Patent ID: 8910735

Claim:
An electric vehicle, comprising: left and right drive wheels; a brake device provided in a recessed portion of a wheel of each of the drive wheels, wherein the wheel of each of the drive wheels is driven by a drive unit; a vertically-swingable upper arm and a vertically-swingable lower arm extending from a vehicle body frame of the electric vehicle in a vehicle width direction; a knuckle connected to a distal end of the upper arm and a distal end of the lower arm, wherein the wheel of each of the drive wheels is rotatably supported by the knuckle, and wherein the drive unit is connected to the knuckle from a vehicle body center side, wherein the drive unit comprises an electric motor and a reducer integrated as a unit, wherein the electric motor is disposed such that a perpendicular line passing through a rotation center of the wheel of each of the drive wheels overlaps a motor shaft in a vehicle side view, and wherein an upper arm portion of the knuckle extends obliquely upward toward a rear of the vehicle from the knuckle interposed between the wheel of each of the drive wheels and the drive unit to a position where the upper arm portion does not overlap the drive unit in the vehicle side view, and wherein the upper arm is connected to an upper end of the upper arm portion.