US 12,300,839 B2
Battery pack with housing for electric powersport vehicles
Shawn Connors, Bois-des-Filion (CA); François Gagné, Sherbrooke (CA); Paul Achard, Montreal (CA); Samuel Bruneau, Montreal (CA); Gabriel Bernatchez, Montreal (CA); Marc-Olivier Gagnon, Montreal (CA); Paul Bruneau, Montreal (CA); and Dante Filice, Montreal (CA)
Assigned to Taiga Motors Inc., Lasalle (CA)
Filed by Taiga Motors Inc., Lasalle (CA)
Filed on Aug. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/888,011.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/242,695, filed on Sep. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0081226 A1, Mar. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. H01M 50/249 (2021.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B60L 50/64 (2019.01); H01M 50/244 (2021.01)
CPC H01M 50/249 (2021.01) [B60K 1/04 (2013.01); B60L 50/64 (2019.02); H01M 50/244 (2021.01); B60K 2001/0405 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A chassis for an electric snowmobile comprising:
a battery pack including a battery pack housing defining an enclosure for housing a number of battery modules for powering an electric motor of the electric snowmobile, the battery pack housing having a length extending in a longitudinal direction of the snowmobile, the battery pack housing including a bottom surface; and
a pair of opposing side panels extending downwardly from and along at least a portion of the length of the battery pack housing, the opposing panels and at least portions of the bottom surface of the battery pack housing together forming a rear structure extending in the longitudinal direction of the electric snowmobile, the opposing side panels forming sidewalls of the rear structure and the bottom surface forming at least a roof of the rear structure.