Mazda Motor Corporation

Tadasuke Abe

Takashi Hamada

Kazuki Hirota

Yoshiaki Noguchi

Koji Jahara

Toshimitsu Yugami

Ikuo Nonaka

Tsuguo Shimokouchi

Shunji Hiramatsu

The present disclosure includes: a cowl member that is formed to extend in a vehicle width direction and bulges to the front from a rear side of a motor chamber; a power unit that is fixed to a right side frame in the motor chamber, has a lower portion fixed to a vehicle body, and drives the vehicle by electricity; and a protection bracket provided on an upper surface of the power unit, wherein the protection bracket is configured to abut the cowl member in the case where a frontal collision of a vehicle occurs and the power unit moves downward to the rear.

Vehicle front structure

An electric-drive vehicle structure is provided, which includes a cross member bridged between side frames in a front part of a vehicle, a motor suspended below the cross member, a tray fixed to an upper surface of the cross member, and an electric unit for driving a motor, fixed onto the tray. A front edge of the electric unit is located forward of a front edge of the cross member, and the tray has a front edge located, throughout a width thereof, forward of the electric unit.

Electric-drive vehicle structure

Growing community of inventors

Hatsukaichi, Japan

Tadasuke Abe