ELECTRIC VEHICLE

DRIVE April 17, 2013
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An obj ect of the present invention is to provide an electric vehicle which includes in-wheel motor driving devices and an independent-steering apparatus and is capable of making pivot turns within a minimum-required parking space, by providing a structure without a chassis and a part of the body protruding out of a minimum-required circular space necessary for the wheels to make pivot turning. In a case where the electric vehicle has four wheel consisting of a left and a right front wheels 17a, 17b and a left and a right rear wheels 17c, 17d, an in-wheel motor driving device 27 is incorporated only in the left and right front wheels 17a, 17b, only in the left and right rear wheels 17c, 17d, or in all of the wheels 17a, 17b, 17c, 17d. An independent-steering apparatus serves for all of the wheels 17a, 17b, 17c, 17d. A kingpin axis in each of the wheels 17a, 17b, 17c, 17d makes an intersection A with a road surface on a circle inboard of a vehicle chassis 12.

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