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  2. History of the electric vehicle - Wikipedia

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    Crude electric carriages were first invented in the late 1820s and 1830s. Practical, commercially available electric vehicles appeared during the 1890s. An electric vehicle held the vehicular land speed record until around 1900. In the early 20th century, the high cost, low top speed, and short-range of battery electric vehicles, compared to ...

  3. Electric car - Wikipedia

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    An electric car or electric vehicle (EV) is a passenger automobile that is propelled by an electric traction motor, using electrical energy as the primary source of propulsion. The term normally refers to a plug-in electric vehicle, typically a battery electric vehicle (BEV), which only uses energy stored in on-board battery packs, but broadly ...

  4. Electric car use by country - Wikipedia

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    As of the start of 2020, Electric Vehicles (EVs) was as a proportion of all cars for sale in Ireland very small, which could be seen in a snapshot (7 February 2020) of four different car sales websites (Autotrader.ie, Carsireland.ie, Carzone.ie, and Donedeal.ie) which showed that out of circa 38,000 to 70,000 cars listed for sale, only circa 0. ...

  5. Volvo Cars CEO admits 50% of its markets are taking ‘a lot ...

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    Volvo Cars’ Chinese-made electric EX30 faces a 19.9% import tariff to the EU following an anti-competition probe from the European Commission; meanwhile Chinese battery import tariffs have risen ...

  6. Battery electric vehicle - Wikipedia

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    Charging point. A battery electric vehicle (BEV), pure electric vehicle, only-electric vehicle, fully electric vehicle or all-electric vehicle is a type of electric vehicle (EV) that uses energy exclusively from an on-board battery. This definition excludes hybrid electric vehicles. BEVs use electric motors and motor controllers instead of ...

  7. Electric vehicle - Wikipedia

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    An electric vehicle (EV) is a vehicle whose propulsion is powered fully or mostly by electricity. [1] EVs include road and rail vehicles, electric boats and underwater vessels, electric aircraft and electric spacecraft. Early electric vehicles first came into existence in the late 19th century, when the Second Industrial Revolution brought ...

  8. 'Self-driving' cars are changing Utah roads—sometimes with ...

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    The lawsuit claims Embry, 34, signaled for "several seconds" before changing lanes while slowing down, the Utah Highway Patrol reported. Once Embry was in the HOV lane, the Tesla caught up to him ...

  9. List of battery electric vehicles - Wikipedia

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    The Tesla Model Y is the first electric vehicle to become the world's best-selling car in 2023, outselling the Toyota Corolla. [1] Battery electric vehicles are vehicles exclusively using chemical energy stored in rechargeable battery packs, with no secondary source of propulsion (e.g., hydrogen fuel cell, internal combustion engine, etc.).