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[[Image:DC Electric Locomotive.jpg|thumb|250px|right|An [[electric locomotive]], taking power through a [[Pantograph (rail)|pantograph]]]] An '''electric vehicle''', or EV, is a [[vehicle]] with one or more [[electric motor]]s for propulsion. The motion may be provided either by [[wheels]] o

== Electric vehicles == Iveco is making [[hybrid electric vehicle]]s.

...carriage run by an [[internal combustion engine]] powering wheel-mounted [[electric motor]]s. They presented the car on the [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|190 ...e.wanadoo-members.co.uk/tramways/Articles/Cedes.htm West Ham's Cedes Stoll Trolleybus] Porsche design

...hat drives the vehicle. This contrasts with all-[[Battery electric vehicle|electric car]]s which use batteries charged by an external source such as the grid, ...l combustion engine that spun a generator which powered four wheel-mounted electric motors. The car was presented at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris. The up

...g and maintaining Curtiss-Wright, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce and General Electric aircraft engines. Alfa Romeo built also Italy's first [[turbine engine]], i ....jpg|190px|right|thumb|Alfa Romeo 1000 (Mille) [[Aerfer]] FI 711.2 OCREN [[trolleybus]] in [[Naples]].]]