US 11,894,533 B2
Electric vehicle
Vikram Menon, Kawasaki (JP); Katsuhiko Matsumoto, Kawasaki (JP); Markus Uhl, Kawasaki (JP); and Lars Schroeter, Kawasaki (JP)
Assigned to Daimler Truck AG, Leinfelden-Echterdingen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/055,043
Filed by Daimler AG, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Apr. 25, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/017749
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 12, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/230286, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 5, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-101593 (JP), filed on May 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0218101 A1, Jul. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. H01M 10/613 (2014.01); H01M 10/625 (2014.01); H01M 50/249 (2021.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B60L 50/64 (2019.01)
CPC H01M 10/613 (2015.04) [B60K 1/04 (2013.01); B60L 50/64 (2019.02); H01M 10/625 (2015.04); H01M 50/249 (2021.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0483 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric vehicle, comprising:
a drive unit fitted to a rear axle of the electric vehicle to transmit drive power generated by a motor to rear wheels of the electric vehicle to move the electric vehicle;
an auxiliary electric device group including a plurality of auxiliary electric devices disposed in a cab area which is disposed under a cab of the electric vehicle and between side rails which constitute a ladder frame of the electric vehicle;
a battery pack disposed between the drive unit and the auxiliary electric device group and between the side rails;
a power distribution device disposed on an auxiliary electric device group side of the battery pack and between the side rails to distribute power from the battery pack to the plurality of auxiliary electric devices; and
a drive power supply device disposed on a drive unit side of the battery pack to supply power from the battery pack to the motor;
wherein the auxiliary electric device group includes a shelf structure including a plurality of shelves disposed one over another in a vertical direction of the electric vehicle and wherein the plurality of auxiliary electric devices are disposed in the shelf structure.