Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Ai Co., Ltd.

Yosuke Hayashi

Kan Sasaki

Takeharu Koide

Akemi Okawa

A drive unit for a hybrid vehicle includes an engine mounted on a front portion of a vehicle, a motor mounted on the front portion of the vehicle, a transmission mounted on a rear portion of the vehicle, an auxiliary transmission connected to an output shaft of the engine and to an output shaft of the motor, and a connecting shaft connecting an output shaft of the auxiliary transmission to the transmission, wherein the motor is arranged to be closer to a rear portion of the auxiliary transmission than to a front portion of the auxiliary transmission in a front/rear direction of the vehicle and to be below the connecting shaft.

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Toyota, Japan

Yosuke Hayashi