Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroyuki Kurata

Masanori Kodera

Hideyuki Tamaki

Ryuma Osaka

Ryosuke Chikazawa

Shinnosuke Okuda

Kenji Igashira

A vehicle-body lower structure includes: a front suspension member, a lower arm supported by the front suspension member; and a battery case that is disposed on the rear side of the front suspension member and houses a battery. The battery case includes: a front plate; and a frame extending in the left-right direction on a lower portion of the front plate. A block is attached to a front portion of the frame so as to be positioned on the rear side of the lower arm.

Vehicle-body lower structure

A vehicle front portion structure includes: a motor unit disposed at a vehicle front part; a suspension member disposed at the vehicle front part, the suspension member extending in a vehicle front-rear direction and deforming toward a vehicle lower side at a time of vehicle frontal collision; a left-right pair of front side motor mounts connecting a front part of the motor unit with the suspension member; a rear side motor mount connecting a central part, in a vehicle width direction, of a rear part of the motor unit with the suspension member; and a break mechanism that causes the rear side motor mount, which moves toward a vehicle rear side at a time of vehicle frontal collision, to break in the vehicle width direction.

Vehicle front portion structure

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Hiroyuki Kurata