electric vehicle (plural electric vehicles)
- 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[1]: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[2]:His car company, Tesla, controls two-thirds of the multibillion-dollar electric-vehicle market it pioneered and is valued at a cool $1 trillion.
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- 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)
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vehicle that uses an electric motor as the means of propulsion
- Arabic: سَيَّارَة كَهْرَبَائِيَّة f (sayyāra kahrabāʔiyya)
- Belarusian: электрамабі́ль m (eljektramabílʹ)
- Bulgarian: електри́чески автомоби́л m (elektríčeski avtomobíl), електромоби́л m (elektromobíl)
- Burmese: လျှပ်စစ်ကား (hlyapcacka:)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 電動車/电动车 (zh) (diàndòngchē), 電動汽車/电动汽车 (diàndòng qìchē)
- Czech: elektromobil (cs) m
- Finnish: sähköajoneuvo (fi)
- French: véhicule électrique m, voiture électrique (fr) f
- Georgian: ელექტრომობილი (elekṭromobili), ელექტრული ავტომობილი (elekṭruli avṭomobili)
- German: Elektrofahrzeug (de) n, Elektroauto (de) n, E-Auto (de) n, Elektromobil (de) n
- Indonesian: kendaraan listrik
- Japanese: 電気自動車 (ja) (でんきじどうしゃ, denki jidōsha), 電動輸送機器 (でんどうゆそうきき, dendō yusōkiki)
- Khmer: យានយន្តអគ្គិសនី (yiən yŭən ʼakkisaʼnii)
- Korean: 전기자동차(電氣自動車) (jeon'gijadongcha), 전기차(電氣車) (jeon'gicha)
- Macedonian: еле́ктрично во́зило n (eléktrično vózilo)
- Malay: kenderaan elektrik
- Persian: خودرُویِ بَرقی (xodrow-ye barqi)
- Polish: pojazd elektryczny m
- Russian: электромоби́ль (ru) m (elektromobílʹ), электротра́нспорт (ru) m (elektrotránsport) (generic term)
- Slovak: elektromobil m
- Spanish: vehículo eléctrico m
- Tagalog: sasakyang de-koryente
- Thai: รถพลังงานไฟฟ้า (rót-pá-lang-ngaan-fai-fáa)
- Turkish: elektrikli araç
- Ukrainian: електромобі́ль m (elektromobílʹ)
- Vietnamese: xe điện (vi), xe chạy điện
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