Electrically powered vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuhito Sakai, Atsunori Kumagai, Hirotsugu Ojima, Shintaro Utsumi, Satoko Tofukuji, Nobuhisa Jingu
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Abstract
An electrically powered vehicle includes a vehicle body, a battery that is mounted in the vehicle body and is usable for running, and an engine driven type of generator unit that is detachably mounted in the vehicle body and charges the battery. In the electrically powered vehicle, at least some of exhaust system assembly components that form an exhaust system of an engine of the generator unit are provided in the vehicle body. Specifically, the electrically powered vehicle is configured to mount, for example, a catalyst out of the exhaust system assembly components in the vehicle body.
Claims4
An electrically powered vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body;
- a battery mounted in the vehicle body and usable for running;
- and
- a generator unit of engine driven type that is detachably mounted in the vehicle body and charges the battery,
- at least some of exhaust system assembly components that form an exhaust system of an engine of the generator unit being mounted in the vehicle body,
- wherein:
- a vehicle interior is provided in the vehicle body;
- there is provided a partition space part that defines a space with which the vehicle interior communicates and from which the vehicle interior is isolated, and the generator unit is detachably mounted in the partition space part;
- and
- there is further provided an operation restricting control part configured to restrict an operation of at least either the generator unit or vehicle running in a case where the vehicle interior and the partition space part communicate with each other.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.