Electric riding mower having air-cooled chassis and pivotable protective cowling

1. An electric riding mower comprising:

two running motors independently driving paired driving wheels;

a mower blade mowing grass by being rotated;

a mowing motor rotating the mower blade;

a battery supplying electric power to the running motors and the mowing motor; and

a mower-motor driver controlling the rotational speed of the mowing motor, the mower-motor driver being disposed in a driver storage part on a front part of the mower;

an air intake part taking in external air is disposed on a front surface of the driver storage part;

a chassis;

a cowling covering the entire chassis from above;

an operator's seat; and

a protective frame covering the battery from above for protection,

wherein

a cowling pivot support point allowing the cowling to pivot above the chassis is disposed on a front part of the mower,

a step configured to place feet of an operator seated in the operator's seat is disposed on the cowling,

a step support panel supporting the step from below is fixed to the chassis,

a damper supporting the opening/closing of the cowling is interposed between a back side of the cowling and the protective frame,

a frame-damper connecting device is fixed to the protective frame to pivotably fix one end of the damper, and

a cowling-damper connecting device is fixed to the back side of the cowling to pivotably fix the other end of the damper, and

wherein said battery includes a plurality of the batteries, the batteries being disposed horizontally on a rear part of the chassis.

2. The electric riding mower according to claim 1 , wherein the damper comprises two dampers disposed side by side in the width direction of the mower.