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"" Picture: Jupiterimages/Pixland/Thinkstock About This Quiz Vrrrrrmmmmm!  コペン la400k ! Electric vehicles have seemed like the wave of the future for decades now...so why aren't we all driving them? Check your information of plug-in vehicles with this quiz. Begin QUIZ What is the toughest a part of constructing an electric car? the physique the wheels the battery The battery. Most of the opposite stuff is just about the identical as any car, however batteries are large, heavy and costly. an inside combustion engine hamsters An electric motor. It's powered by batteries that are charged with, you recognize, electricity. How do you charge it? by including gas at the ability plant You may plug it into any old outlet. At dwelling, you may want to use a better-voltage outlet. "You" being people who can afford one. (Future electric cars ought to price much less. True True. This moves emissions away from the street (the place you and that i breathe them) to the power plant, which most individuals would argue is an improvement. Most electricity within the U.S. nonetheless comes from burning fossil fuels, principally coal. Electric automobiles aren't noisy sufficient. They are not noisy sufficient. This is a critical danger for blind pedestrians, so electric car makers want to figure out what sounds to placed on their vehicles. They don't produce enough sulfer dioxide. They don't price enough. True True. Gas-powered cars burn fuel, releasing loads of heat that can be used to warm up the car. Electric automobiles need heaters. Nissan Leaf Nissan Leaf, although, I think all of these can be excellent names for vehicles. I would like to drive a Toyota Puppy. Some Nissan Leafs (Leaves?) were supposed to appear in the U.S. in 2010. A Washington, D.C. subway prepare. A nuclear submarine. All of these autos run on electric motors. In the case of the nuclear submarine and the Coast Guard ship (and plenty of other ships), that electricity just happens to be generated on board, reasonably than at a far-off power plant. The U.S. COast Guard Cutter Healy. All of them are.