Glossary / General

electric power trains

8 Episode Mentions

Too Afraid to Ask

The electric power train is everything that turns the car’s wheels using electricity—from the battery to the motor.

Technical Definition

An electric power train is the complete set of components that generate, transmit, and use electrical energy to drive a vehicle’s wheels.

Hear It Discussed

"...signals BMW now treats electric powertrains as the default of how they go around making cars..."
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"which is how efficient your electric power train is. When you've got those two numbers, then you've got a real thing to go on."
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"...with electric powertrains, like you get individual wheel torque vectoring..."
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