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Advantages
Hybrid EV
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EV electric vehicle
EV= An electric vehicle, or EV, is a vehicle with one or more electric motors
for propulsion. The motion may be provided either by wheels or propellers driven
by rotary motors, or in the case of tracked vehicles, by linear motors.
The energy used to propel the vehicle may be obtained from several sources:
from chemical energy stored on the vehicle in on-board batteries: Battery
electric vehicle (BEV)
from both an on-board rechargeable energy storage system (RESS) and a fueled
propulsion power source: hybrid vehicle
generated on-board using a combustion engine, as in a diesel-electric locomotive
generated on-board using a fuel cell: fuel cell vehicle
generated on-board using nuclear energy, on nuclear submarines and aircraft
carriers
from more esoteric sources such as flywheels, wind and solar
from a direct connection to land-based generation plants, as is common in
electric trains and trolley buses.
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