Driving apparatus for vehicle

A driving apparatus has a differential gear unit (12) and an electric motor (25) and drives drive wheels of a vehicle. The differential gear unit (12) includes a differential case (14) provided with a final driven gear (13), and two axle shafts (17a, 17b) respectively coupled to the drive wheels. A hollow rotor shaft (21) is coaxially disposed outside one (17b) of the axle shafts, and a rotor (26) of the electric motor (25) is fixed to this rotor shaft (21). A reduction shaft (31) is disposed in parallel to the axle shaft (17b), and this reduction shaft (31) is provided with a driven gear (35), which is engaged with a drive gear (34) provided on the rotor shaft (21), and a final drive gear (36) engaged with the final driven gear (13).