electric vehicle

electric vehicle (plural electric vehicles)

1. A vehicle that uses an electric motor as the means of propulsion; most especially, an e-car or e-truck.

   Synonym: (initialism) EV

   • 2012 March 4, Alice Rawsthorn, “Farewell, Pocket Calculator?”, in The New York Times‎:

     By the middle of the decade, he [Clive Sinclair] had sold his computer businesses and moved on to transportation with the Sinclair C5 electric vehicle, which was designed with a single seat but, bafflingly for as wet and chilly a country as Britain, without a roof.

   • December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time‎:

     His car company, Tesla, controls two-thirds of the multibillion-dollar electric-vehicle market it pioneered and is valued at a cool $1 trillion.

• BEV (battery electric vehicle) (an EV that is fully electric as opposed to hybrid electric)
• e-car, e-truck, e-van
• HEV (hybrid electric vehicle) (an EV that has both an electric powertrain and an ICE for charging and/or propulsion)

• e-bike, e-scooter, e-skateboard (usually used coordinately rather than hyponymously, when the governing mental schema implicitly restricts EVs to the larger, heavier vehicles)

• EV (abbreviation)