Patent 9132878 was granted and assigned to Kawasaki on September, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An electric motorcycle according to the present invention includes a body frame having a head pipe supporting a steering shaft and a frame portion extending substantially rearward from the head pipe, an electric motor generating traveling power to be transmitted to a driving wheel, and an electric motor case housing the electric motor, wherein the electric motor case forms a part of the frame portion.