electric vehicle

English

Noun

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^[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.

Hyponyms

• 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)

Coordinate terms

• 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)

Derived terms

• EV (abbreviation)

Translations

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