All-wheel drive motor vehicle

Abstract

An all-wheel drive motor vehicle having at least two wheel axles and comprising an electrical or hydraulic drive unit having a plurality of electric or hydraulic motors connected to an electrical or hydraulic energy source. Each motor is associated with a drive wheel and drives such wheel via a transmission. The motors that are associated with a given one of the wheel axles are adapted to be coupled with one another via a shiftable transverse locking device. At least one of the motors on a first side of the vehicle is adapted to be coupled, via a shiftable longitudinal locking device, with one of the motors associated with a different one of the wheel axles on the same side or on a second side of the vehicle.

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