electric vehicle

== English == === Noun === electric vehicle (plural electric vehicles) A vehicle that uses an electric motor as the means of propulsion; most especially, an electric car or truck. Synonym: EV (initialism) Hypernym: vehicle ==== 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 ====