EV Charging 101
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100

In addition to Controlled and Emergency, this is a third type of charging Shutdown.

What is Diagnostic?

100

This German engineer is credited with inventing the first practical gasoline-powered automobile in 1885.

Who is Karl Benz?

100

The push or force that drives electric current through a circuit.

What is voltage?

100

This luxury EV brand is a spinoff of Volvo.

What is Polestar?

100

This state was once the home of HVET EGM: Jacqueline Adams

What is Delaware?

200

This signal, in addition to Charge Pilot Voltage and Charge Proximity Voltage, is used immobilize the vehicle during charging.

What is Charge Port Door Position?

200

A black and yellow Autobot from the movie Transformers is portrayed by this General Motors vehicle.

What is a Chevrolet Camaro?

200

The exact number of Watts equivalent to 1 Horsepower.

What is 745.7?

200

The SAE J1772 plug is used in the US and this other region for AC charging.

What is Japan?

200

The nickname for the state of Virginia, home of Virginia Tech and Matt Young.

What is the Old Dominion State?

300

The number of Solutions the BETART is responsible for.

What is 9?

300

This component mixes air and fuel before it enters the engine’s cylinders in older ICE vehicles.

What is a carburetor?

300

In this year GM released its first EV, the EV1.

What is 1996?

300

Rounded to the nearest hundred thousand, this was the number of EV Charging Outlets in the United States as of 2025.

What is 200,000?

300

This team member is the proud owner of a Chevy Silverado, which has been known to occasionally break down in Costco parking lots.

Who is Mark?

400

Minimum and Maximum Current and Power Limits are exchanged between the EVSE and EV during this V2G Messaging State.

What is Charge Parameter Discovery?

400

This 1912 invention by GM’s own Charles Kettering eliminated the most labor intensive – and often dangerous – step in operating a car.

What is the Electric Starter?

400

This electrically controlled switch is used for switching a power circuit, typically in motors or lighting systems, and is preferred over relays for high-current applications.

What is a Contactor?

400

In 2015, an EV beat out all ICE vehicles in the Hill Climbing event on this summit in Colorado.

What is Pike's Peak?

400

This dish features a sauce poured over spaghetti or hot dogs and is (in)famous in the state of Ohio.

What is skyline chili?

500

These are the two calibration types necessary for a diagnostic FSR.

What are reset and inhibit?

500

You might find this precious metal on your wedding ring, or underneath your Chevy Silverado.

What is Platinum?

500

This country is where Robert Anderson developed what is considered the first motorized carriage using galvanic cells in the 1830s

What is Scotland?

500

CHAdeMO, a DC fast-charging standard for Evs used particularly in Japan, stands for CHArge de Moving which is a pun for drinking this beverage while charging.

What is tea?

500

Rogers City, Michigan is home to the world's largest quarry for this mineral.

What is limestone?