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Re:Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022 by Cd00d on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:55PM (#28568696)
BEV?

I'm guessing the EV is electric vehicle, but what's the B?

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Re:Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022 by josephcsible on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:57PM (#28568722)
"Battery". Some people include plug-in hybrids in their definition of "EV", so "BEV" was created to exclude those.
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Re:Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022 by TacticalCoder on Friday September 17, 2021 @02:38PM (#28569264)
> Some people include plug-in hybrids in their definition of "EV", so "BEV" was created to exclude those.

Which is really a poorly coined term because it's not as if plug-in hybrids, many of which can do people's daily commute back and forth without ever kicking the internal combustion engine on, where finding their energy from something else than an EV battery.

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