Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasuki Yoshikawa

Atsushi Tabata

Tatsuya Imamura

Eiji Ito

Toshiki Kanada

Takeshi Kuwahara

Yukinobu Nishikawa

An electric vehicle comprises: an electric drive unit including an electric motor used as a drive power source, a transaxle including a differential device and coupled to a motor shaft of the electric motor in a power transmittable manner on one end side of the electric motor in a direction of a motor centerline to transmit an output of the electric motor through the differential device to a pair of drive shafts, and a case housing the electric motor and the transaxle. The case includes a first end surface portion located on the other end side of the electric motor in the motor centerline direction and rotatably supporting the motor shaft, and an accessory component of the vehicle is attached to an outside surface of the first end surface portion.

Electric vehicle

A drive unit for a hybrid vehicle an axial length thereof is shortened is provided. A power distribution device is disposed in an inner circumferential side of a cylindrical output gear, and at least a portion of a second clutch is also disposed in the inner circumferential side of the output gear while being adjacent to the power distribution device in an axial direction.

Drive unit for hybrid vehicle

Growing community of inventors

Okazaki, Japan

Yasuki Yoshikawa