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Questions tagged [electric-vehicles]

automotives that use one or more electric motors for propulsion, including cars, trucks, buses, bikes and more. Consider this tag for questions regarding EV designs, technologies, fuel types and performance/efficiency comparisons. Also consider [cars], [batteries], [transport] or [electricity], depending on your question.

Electric Vehicles (EVs) are automotives that use one or more electric motors for propulsion. This tag can be used for any type of vehicle, including cars, trucks, buses, bikes, trains, planes and so on.

If you are specifically asking about EV technology in relation to passenger cars, consider also using the tag.

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What is the effect of hot weather on the performance of electric vehicles?

Allied to the question: How does cold weather affect electric vehicles? How does hot weather affect electric vehicles, particularly when the atmospheric temperature is above 30 C and closer to 40 C, as can be experienced in tropical or desert…
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How does cold weather affect electric vehicles?

I live in Madison, Wisconsin, US where our winters are cold -- for January and February, the average low is around -10C, with extremes regularly dipping below -20C. I currently have a 20-year old car. Soon enough, I expect that needed repairs will…
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New electric vehicle: does the cost outweigh the benefits?

Since it's summer break and I can no longer walk everywhere like I could at university, I've been having to drive my car a lot. For a 2001 model, it gets excellent gas mileage (or so I assume, I've never driven anything else; I can drive it for…
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What is the potential for a used car market for EVs?

In the 1970s, my dad bought a new Mazda sports car on a payment plan. About a year later he happened to see what the same model was selling for, and realized that he still owed more money than the car was even worth. Since then, he's never bought a…
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How should EV drivers prepare for winter driving?

On Monday night, a snowstorm in Virginia stranded drivers for up to 48 hours on Interstate 95. An op-ed this morning in the Washington Post argued that it would have been much worse if all the cars were EVs: All else being equal, though, cars and…
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How many miles per year is too few to make an EV more sustainable than a small petrol car

I need a car for occasional short journeys. My yearly millage will probably be less than 2000 miles. Is it worth getting an EV or will a small petrol be more environmental. I’ll be buying used, probably either a VW Polo or a Renault Zoe. If I only…
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Is there a total cost of ownership calculator for cars that will give me electric vehicle options?

I recently replaced a 20-year-old ICE vehicle in need of significant repairs with a five-year-old ICE vehicle. We had hoped that we could buy an EV this time around, but models that meet our needs are only available as new cars, the cost of which we…
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Are there any Type2-charged non-car vehicles?

To support my idea of Sustainable Living, I'd like to reuse costs spent by my family of purchasing high-end Type2 charger by using it not just to charge up our EV car. Are there any battery-powered non-car vehicles (bikes, motorbikes, scooters,…
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