A lightweight electric vehicle includes a chassis, a pair of rear wheel assemblies, a pair of front wheel assemblies, a front suspension system, a rear suspension system, a pedestal supported by the chassis, a frontmost seat supported by the pedestal, a rearmost seat configured to accommodate a plurality of occupants and supported by the chassis, a floorboard coupled the chassis, and an electric motor configured to drive at least one of the pair of front wheel assemblies or the pair of rear wheel assemblies. The rearmost seat faces forward. At least a portion of the rearmost seat is located longitudinally rearward of an axis extending through a center of the pair of rear wheel assemblies. The floorboard is substantially flat such that a first footwell in front of the frontmost seat and a second footwell in front of the rearmost seat are coplanar.
LIGHTWEIGHT VEHICLE
2025-01-09
Patent
Electronic Resource
English