Car Basics
What is Electric Vehicle?
This type of car, which uses both an electric motor and a gasoline engine, is often seen as a “transition” between gas and fully electric vehicles.
What is a hybrid (HEV)?
Because of their battery production, this type of vehicle can generate 1.3 to 2 times more greenhouse gases during manufacturing than their counterparts.
What is an electric vehicle?
This company released the Prius in 1997, the world’s first mass-produced hybrid car.
What is Toyota?
What is the inspiration behind the Tesla car companies name?
Nikola Tesla, the famous inventor who contributed to electronic technology.
This part of a gas car is responsible for converting fuel into motion.
What is the internal combustion engine?
This Asian country, home to companies like Toyota and Honda, has invested heavily in hybrid technology and is slowly expanding its electric vehicle market.
What is Japan?
Compared to the average gas car, an EV uses about four times less of this to travel the same distance.
What is energy?
These two major fuels powered most cars in the 20th century. One burns cleaner, the other is used in most semi-trucks.
What are gasoline and diesel?
In the Pixar movie "Cars," this speedy race car is voiced by Owen Wilson and would probably be gas-powered if he were real.
Who is lightning mcqueen?
This type of battery is commonly used in EVs.
What is a lithium-ion battery?
This country is the world leader in electric car parts and vehicle production.
What is China?
Electric vehicles generate about 26 metric tons of CO₂ in upstream emissions. This is roughly how much more or less than the upstream emissions of gasoline-powered vehicles. (Half as much, four times a much….?)
What is twice as much?
This German luxury car brand was the first to mass-produce an all-electric sports car called the Taycan.
What is Porsche?
This is the name of Teslas first vehicle.
Tesla Roadster
This feature helps helps conserve and reuse energy when driving. (Hint it has to do with special wheels!)
What is regenerative braking?
What is a license plate?
Over its entire lifetime, a gasoline-powered car emits about this many times more CO₂ than an electric vehicle.
What is 3 to 4 times more?
This technology, still being developed and tested by companies like Waymo and Tesla could define the future of how humans interact with cars. (Hint:Its very HANDS OFF)
What is autonomous driving (or self-driving technology)?
Over 80% of new cars sold in this country are electric. It's basically the EV capital of the world.
What is Norway?
This is one key reason electric vehicles often require less maintenance than gas-powered cars.
What is they have fewer moving parts and don’t need oil changes?
This automaker was the global leader in EV sales in 2023.
What is BYD?
Depending on how clean the electricity is, it takes an electric vehicle this many years to break even on carbon emissions compared to a gasoline car.
What is about 1.4-1.9 years?
In the early 1900s, this breakthrough innovation made mass production of cars possible, allowing them to become more affordable and widely available to the public.
What is the assembly line?
In the 1985 movie "Back to the Future," this iconic time-traveling car had a flux capacitor—but if it were made today, it might just run on lithium-ion batteries.
What is a DeLorean?