Electric vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsChikashi OHTA, Shoichi SASAKI, Makoto TOMITA, Masabumi NISHIGAYA, Takahiro KAWASHIMA, Taku HARADA, Shoji HISHINUMA
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Abstract
An electric vehicle includes a battery pack and a charging port. The battery pack is disposed below a floor panel. The charging port is disposed in a side surface of the electric vehicle and above the battery pack. The battery pack and the charging port are electrically connected to each other by a cable. The cable is routed from the charging port downward and then inward along a wheel well, and further extends from the lower end of the wheel well toward the battery pack at a position below the floor panel and is connected to the battery pack.
Claims7
An electric vehicle, comprising:
- a passenger compartment;
- a floor panel that forms a floor surface of the passenger compartment;
- a front compartment disposed forward of the passenger compartment in a vehicle front-rear direction;
- a wheel well;
- a motor that is a power source;
- a battery cell configured to store electric power to be supplied to the motor;
- a battery pack that accommodates the battery cell therein;
- and
- a charging port configured to be connected to a connector of an external power supply, wherein
- the motor is disposed in the front compartment,
- the battery pack is disposed below the floor panel in a vehicle vertical direction,
- the charging port is disposed in a side surface of the electric vehicle and above the battery pack in the vehicle vertical direction,
- the battery pack and the charging port are electrically connected to each other by a cable, and
- the cable is routed downward from the charging port in the vehicle vertical direction and then inward in a vehicle width direction along the wheel well, and further extends from a lower end of the wheel well toward the battery pack at a position below the floor panel in the vehicle vertical direction, and is connected to the battery pack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.