Fuel cell electric vehicle
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakeshi SHIOMI, Hisashi NAKATA
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Abstract
A fuel cell electric vehicle includes a driving motor for driving a pair of wheels, a fuel cell for generating electricity used in the driving motor with the fuel cell being disposed above the driving motor, and supply/discharge manifolds. The supply/discharge manifolds are for transporting the fuel gas, the oxidizing gas and the coolant to or from the fuel cell from lateral end portions of a lower part of the fuel cell so that the fuel gas, the oxidizing gas and the coolant supplied to and discharged from the fuel cell flow in a substantially vertical direction with respect to a vehicle without the fuel gas, the oxidizing gas and the coolant passing through a center portion between the lower part of the fuel cell and an upper part of the driving motor.
Claims10
A fuel cell electric vehicle comprising:
- power outputting means for driving a pair of wheels;
- electricity generating means for generating electricity used in the power outputting means with the electricity generating means being disposed above the power outputting means;
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- fluid supplying/discharging means for transporting the fuel gas, the oxidizing gas and the coolant to or from the electricity generating means from lateral end portions of a lower part of the electricity generating means so that the fuel gas, the oxidizing gas and the coolant supplied from the fluid supplying/discharging means to the electricity generating means and discharged from the electricity generating means to the fluid supplying/discharging means flow in a substantially vertical direction with respect to a vehicle without the fuel gas, the oxidizing gas and the coolant passing through a center portion between the lower part of the electricity generating means and an upper part of the power outputting means with respect to a lateral direction of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.