A component box has a shape of a substantially flat plate, and is stacked
along a direction UPR toward the ceiling of a vehicle with its center
placed at a central portion of a casing for a battery pack. Cooling wind
which has been used for air-conditioning inside the vehicle and supplied
from a cooling fan to the battery pack is supplied to a coolant
introducing space located on an upper side of a module, passes through a
gap between adjacent battery groups to flow down to a lower side of the
battery groups, and then is emitted from a coolant lead-out space located
at a lower side of the module out of the battery pack. Since the
component box is in contact with a cooling wind passage with the casing
therebetween, the component box in contact with the cooling wind via the
casing is cooled down simultaneously with the cooling of the module.
Since the component box is placed with its center positioned at the
central portion of the battery pack, variations in temperature among
batteries can be suppressed.