EV Basics II - An Electric Vehicle Primer
Important Acronyms: BEV - Battery electric vehicle, a vehicle which uses only batteries and one or more motors to provide the force that makes it go. EV - Electric vehicle, any vehicle that uses electric power to provide some or all of its propulsive force. FCEV - Fuel cell electric vehicle, an electric vehicle which uses a hydrogen fuel cell as its source of electric power. HEV - Hybrid electric vehicle, a car or truck that uses both an ICE and an electric motor. ICE - Internal combustion engine, the powerplant of choice for the dirty, inefficient vehicles of the 20th Century. PHEV - Plug-in hybrid vehicle, a hybrid vehicle with a battery pack that can be charged from a wall socket. Have you just developed an interest in electric vehicles? Are you looking to learn some EV fundamentals? You've come to the right place! Read on, and you will start your education on the wonders of EVs. In this article, I will introduce readers to some of the various different types of EVs and explain