Electric Car - Basic Knowledge

Electric cars are a variety of electric vehicle (EV); the term "electric vehicle" refers to any vehicle that uses electric motors for propulsion, while "electric car" generally refers to road-going automobiles powered by electricity.

Ev car are different from Hybrid car as we mentioned before. It is powered by an electric motor rather than a gasoline engine.It create less pollution than gasoline-powered cars, so they are an environmentally friendly alternative to gasoline-powered vehicles.

Under the hood, there are a lot of differences between gasoline and electric cars:

* The gasoline engine is replaced by an electric motor.
* The electric motor gets its power from a controller.
* The controller gets its power from an array of rechargeable batteries.

Electric vehicles use electricity stored on the car in batteries. Sometimes, 12 or 24 batteries, or more, are needed to power the car. Just like a remote-controlled, model electric car has an electric motor that turns the wheels and a battery to run that motor. When the batteries is exhausted, the car is usually plugged in into a special charging unit or plug right into a regular electrical wall outlet.

From the outside, you would probably have no idea that a car is electric because most of the electric cars are created by converting a gasoline-powered car, and in that case it is impossible to tell.