Clean and Future Automotive Terminology

• BEV: Battery electric vehicle - a vehicle which uses only batteries and one or more motors to provide the force that makes it go.
• EV: Electric vehicle - any vehicle that uses electric power to provide some or all of its propulsive force.
• FCEV: Fuel cell electric vehicle - an electric vehicle which uses a hydrogen fuel cell as its source of electric power.
• HEV: Hybrid electric vehicle, a car or truck that uses both an ICE and an electric motor.
• ICE: Internal combustion engine - the powerplant of choice for the dirty, inefficient vehicles of the 20th Century.
• PHEV: Plug-in hybrid vehicle - a hybrid vehicle with a battery pack that can be charged from a wall socket.

Xtreme-EcoDriving Techniques Terminology

• AD: Anticipatory Driving. This implies maintaining a certain amount of space ahead of the vehicle in order to better accommodate changes in traffic speed and increase safety.
• DWPI: Driving with Powered Idling.  Basically consists of the use of the basic amount of power an Internal combustion engine produces to either maintain the speed or slow down the coasting.  This will occur when the engine is transmitting a minimal amount of power to the wheels without additional throttle input from the driver.
• GEO: Gliding with Engine Off. This technique consists of turning OFF the gas engine while the vehicle is in motion and/or coasting..