Sound Like an Expert: 7 Electric-Car Terms You Need to Know

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Master these technical terms and you'll be your neighborhood's electric-vehicle guru. You'll also be better equipped to understand the basics of EVs.

Electric motors are challenging the internal combustion engine's more than 100-year reign as the typical power source for cars and trucks. The arrival of modern electric vehicles and their new-school technologies is spawning an entirely new class of vehicular jargon. Terms and units of measurement such as MPGe , V2L , and kWh are now part of the automotive vernacular.

Finally, public charging stations, the kind you might encounter in a parking garage or mall parking lot, operated by networks such as ChargePoint, mostly charge at Level 2. DC Fast ChargingWhile Level 1 or 2 charging uses alternating current from a building's electrical wiring, the quickest type of charging is known as DC fast charging.

 

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