Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasuo Miyake

Kazunari Takata

Masahiro Yoshida

Atsushi Yasuda

Kensuke Kamada

Kenta Higashiyama

Kensuke Osawa

Seiji Umekita

A vehicle includes an upper frame, a lower frame, a front frame, a rear frame, a pair of rear wheels, a drive motor to drive the pair of rear wheels, a battery supported by the upper frame and the lower frame to supply electric power to the drive motor, a straddled seat at a higher position than the drive motor, and a bar handle at a higher position than the straddled seat. The battery includes a battery lower portion and a battery upper portion. The battery upper portion includes a projection that overhangs in at least a horizontal direction with respect to the battery lower portion. At least a portion of the drive motor is below or directly below the projection.

Vehicle

A straddled vehicle includes a vehicle body frame supporting a front wheel and a rear wheel, a seat fixed to the vehicle body frame, an engine, a fuel tank, and a canister to adsorb vaporized gas generated by evaporation of a fuel inside the fuel tank. The engine includes a crankshaft that rotates around a crank axis extending in the left-right direction and located lower than the seat. The fuel tank is located farther forward than the seat and higher than the engine. The canister is connected to the fuel tank through a gas pipe. The canister is located farther forward than the crank axis and lower than the fuel tank.

Straddled vehicle

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Shizuoka, Japan

Yasuo Miyake