electric vehicle

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Noun

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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

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Coordinate terms

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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)

Derived terms

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  • EV (abbreviation)

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