How Do Electric Vehicles Work? EV Charger, Battery, Motor All Explained.
Nothing geeky, just the basic information you should know about how your new EV is different under the hood from the car you drive now. Never miss a deal again! See CNET’s browser extension 👉 https://bit.ly/3lO7sOU Follow @briancooley on Twitter: https://bit.ly/2THhuY0 Subscribe to CNET: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cnet Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/cnet Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/2icCYYm Follow us on TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMd2h6yac/ Chapters: Intro 0:00 Battery Charger 0:37 Battery 1:28 Power Control Unit 2:07 Motor 2:58 Reduction Gear 3:29 Outro 4:04
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A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat 1-8 people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide as of 2025. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered automobile in 1808. The mode...
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