US 12,391,131 B2
Electric truck
Naotatsu Kumagai, Kawasaki (JP)
Assigned to Daimler Truck AG, Leinfelden-Echterdingen (DE)
Appl. No. 18/254,331
Filed by Daimler Truck AG, Leinfelden-Echterdingen (DE)
PCT Filed Sep. 28, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/035485
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 24, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/113509, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 2, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-196545 (JP), filed on Nov. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0010078 A1, Jan. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. B60L 50/64 (2019.01); B60L 1/00 (2006.01); B60L 50/60 (2019.01)
CPC B60L 50/64 (2019.02) [B60L 1/00 (2013.01); B60L 50/66 (2019.02); B60L 2200/36 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric truck provided with a plurality of battery packs adjacently arranged along a vehicle length direction, the battery packs each being installed under side rails constituting a ladder frame, the battery packs each having: a pair of first side faces facing to the vehicle length direction; and a pair of second side faces facing to a vehicle width direction, the electric truck comprising:
battery-side brackets disposed on both sides in the vehicle length direction of each of the battery packs, the battery-side brackets each having an opposing face facing one of the first side faces and a pair of extending faces respectively extending from an upper edge and a lower edge of the opposing face and respectively overlapping a top face and a bottom face of the battery pack; and
frame-side brackets connecting the battery-side brackets to the side rails, wherein
among the battery-side brackets, intermediate brackets adjacent to each other in the vehicle length direction each have at least one lightening hole on the opposing face thereof, and outer brackets disposed at outermost positions in the vehicle length direction do not have any lightening holes.