QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS CURRENTLY TESTED AND
GRADED A+
What was the first mass-produced hybrid electric vehicle?
Select one:
a.GM EV-1
b.Honda Insight Hybrid
c.Tesla Model 3
d.Toyota Prius --CORRECT ANSWER--d.Toyota Prius
What improvements in technology have increased interest in EVs?
Select one:
a.Charging stations specific to each type of vehicle
b.High cost and poor public awareness
c.Improved range, power, and lighter batteries
d.None of the above --CORRECT ANSWER--c.Improved range,
power, and lighter batteries
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,What best describes early EVs?
Select one:
a.Loud and difficult to steer
b.Oily, noisy, and hard to start
c.Quiet, easy to start, and mechanically simple
d.Very unreliable --CORRECT ANSWER--c.
Quiet, easy to start, and mechanically simple
Which of the following is not a category of electric vehicles?
Select one:
a.BEV
b.HEV
c.ICE
d.PHEV --CORRECT ANSWER--c.ICE
What category of EV has been available to consumers the longest?
a.BEV
b.HEV
c.PHEV
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,d.All of the above --CORRECT ANSWER--b.HEV
Which of the following describes a plug-in electric vehicle that runs
on batteries until nearly depleted, then switches over to an ICE
generator to extend the battery range?
Select one:
a.BEV
b.PHEV
c.All electric vehicles have this capability.
d.No electric vehicle currently on the market has this capability. --
CORRECT ANSWER--b.PHEV
Regenerative braking is best described by which of the following?
Select one:
a.An energy recovery system
b.Not reliable as a braking method
c.Obsolete technology that existed on EV models in the 1990s
d.Turns electrical energy to kinetic energy --CORRECT ANSWER--
a.An energy recovery system
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, Which of the following describes an EV drivetrain architecture in
which power can be transmitted to the drive from two sources at the
same time?
Select one:
a.Full electric drive
b.Parallel hybrid drive
c.Series hybrid drive
d.3-phase series drive --CORRECT ANSWER--b.Parallel hybrid
drive
What types of commercial/industrial vehicles are currently available
in an electrified version?
Select one:
a.Cargo and material-handling equipment
b.Delivery vans and buses
c.Semi-trailer trucks
d.All of the above --CORRECT ANSWER--d.All of the above
The EV industry is comprised of ? .
Select one:
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