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electric vehicle

electric vehicle noun: a vehicle that uses an electric motor as the means of propulsion; most especially, an electric car or truck.

Noun

electric vehicle (plural electric vehicles)

  1. A vehicle that uses an electric motor as the means of propulsion; most especially, an electric car or truck.
    • 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.2012 March 4, Alice Rawsthorn, “Farewell, Pocket Calculator?”, in The New York Times
    • His car company, Tesla, controls two-thirds of the multibillion-dollar electric-vehicle market it pioneered and is valued at a cool $1 trillion.December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021
    Synonyms:
    EV

electric vehicle meaning in Tamil, Tagalog, Arabic and Malay

electric vehicle in Tamil

மின் ஊர்தி

electric vehicle in Tagalog

vehicle that uses an electric motor as the means of propulsion
sasakyang de-koryente

electric vehicle in Arabic

vehicle that uses an electric motor as the means of propulsion
سَيَّارَة كَهْرَبَائِيَّة sayyāra kahrabāʔiyya

electric vehicle in Malay

vehicle that uses an electric motor as the means of propulsion
kenderaan elektrik
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electric vehicle in Indonesian
kendaraan listrik
electric vehicle in Persian
خودرُویِ بَرقی xodrow-ye barqi
electric vehicle in Thai
รถพลังงานไฟฟ้า rót-pá-lang-ngaan-fai-fáa
electric vehicle in Vietnamese
xe điện, xe chạy điện
electric vehicle in Myanmar
လျှပ်စစ်ကား hlyapcacka:

Synonyms of electric vehicle

Forms of electric vehicle

pluralelectric vehicles

Words formed from electric vehicle

Questions about electric vehicle

What does electric vehicle mean?
Electric vehicle means a vehicle that uses an electric motor as the means of propulsion; most especially, an electric car or truck.
What is electric vehicle in Tamil?
Electric vehicle in Tamil is மின் ஊர்தி. See Electric vehicle meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is electric vehicle?
Electric vehicle is a noun.
What is the plural of electric vehicle?
The plural of electric vehicle is electric vehicles.

Words near electric vehicle in the dictionary

  1. electric torch
  2. electric torches
  3. electric train
  4. electric trains
  5. electric unicycle
  6. electric vehicle
  7. electric vehicles
  8. electric violin
  9. electric violinist
  10. electric violinists
  11. electric violins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: electric vehicle (page history and authors); electric vehicle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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