Electric Vehicle

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: on-board batteries, on-board rechargeable energy storage system (RESS), on-board fuel cells, on-board nuclear energy or from more esoteric sources such as flywheels, wind and solar or from a direct connection to land-based generation plants, as is common in electric trains and trolley buses.

The reasons that electric motors are a good choice to drive vehicles are that they can be finely controlled, they deliver power efficiently and they are mechanically very simple.

Additional Resources:

The Electric Car: Development and Future of Battery, Hybrid and Fuel-Cell Cars (Iee Power & Energy Series, 38)

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