Battery electric vehicle

Abstract

A battery electric vehicle includes: an electric motor configured to serve as a driving source for the battery electric vehicle; a driving operation member configured to be used to drive the battery electric vehicle; a pseudo shifting operation member that imitates an operation member configured to be used to perform a shifting operation of a manual transmission internal combustion engine vehicle; a transmission mounted between the electric motor and a drive wheel and configured to allow a driver to manually switch between a gear ratio for normal use and a low-speed gear ratio; and a control device configured to control a motion of the battery electric vehicle in response to an operation of the driving operation member according to an operation state of the pseudo shifting operation member and a gear ratio selected by the transmission.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.