battery electric vehicle
plug-in hybrid electric vehicle
Nearly a century after it was first conceived, the hybrid electric vehicle, or HEV, went mainstream.
The motor company has a whole new fleet of hybrid electric vehicles that they are announcing in the January auto show.
The first hybrid electric vehicles cost more than petrol-fuelled cars.
Hybrid electric vehicles combine electric and fuel technology, while plug-in hybrid electric vehicles have batteries that can be charged externally.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Road vehicles in general
airboard
all-terrain vehicle
amphibian
ATV
autorickshaw
craft
diesel
gas-guzzling
HEV
HOV
hoverboard
hybrid
motor vehicle
motorcade
non-motorized
rover
snow groomer
snowcat
vehicle
vehicular