Electric vehicle

Abstract

An electric vehicle includes: a motor configured to drive a wheel; a smoothing capacitor provided within a power supply circuit that supplies electric power to the motor; a processor configured to perform a discharge process when the electric vehicle crashes, the discharge process discharging the smoothing capacitor by controlling the power supply circuit; a power source connected to each of a plurality of electric loads including the processor via a corresponding fuse; a relay circuit electrically connected between the power source and the processor and configured to be driven to electrically connect between the power source and the processor in response to a relay drive signal outputted from the processor; and a holding circuit configured to temporarily hold the relay circuit in a driven state when the processor quits outputting the relay drive signal.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.