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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2016
Bluegentech Llc, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Trevor R. Milton, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Kevin M. Lynk, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Anthony A. Heaton, Bountiful, UT (US);
Morgan Mackelprang, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Steve Jennes, Fullerton, CA (US);
Adrian Hawkins, Hood River, OR (US);
NIKOLA MOTOR COMPANY LLC, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
A motor gearbox assembly is provided for a vehicle having two wheels on opposite sides of the vehicle. The assembly includes two independent drive systems that each include an electric motor and an associated gear train, each drive system being configured to independently drive one of the wheels. The assembly further includes a common housing that receives the motors and the gear trains such that the gear trains are at least partially positioned between the motors. Furthermore, at least portions of the drive systems have generally inverse orientations in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle when the motor gearbox assembly is mounted on the vehicle.