Patent 10358024 was granted and assigned to Mazda Motor Corporation on July, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An electric-drive vehicle structure is provided, which includes a cross member bridged between side frames in a front part of a vehicle, a motor suspended below the cross member, a tray fixed to an upper surface of the cross member, and an electric unit for driving a motor, fixed onto the tray. A front edge of the electric unit is located forward of a front edge of the cross member, and the tray has a front edge located, throughout a width thereof, forward of the electric unit.