87 Electric Vehicles Trivia Questions with Answers
87 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which plug-in hybrid became the world’s best-selling plug-in hybrid vehicle in 2015?
Answer
Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
Which electric car was the first to use a production 800-volt charging system?
Answer
Porsche Taycan
Which Tesla factory became the company’s first Gigafactory outside the United States?
Answer
Gigafactory Shanghai
Which process recovers energy while an electric car slows down?
Answer
Regenerative braking
What is the name of Rimac’s 1,914-horsepower electric hypercar?
Answer
Rimac Nevera
Which electric car won the 2013 Motor Trend Car of the Year award?
Answer
Tesla Model S
What battery chemistry does BYD call its Blade Battery?
Answer
Lithium iron phosphate
What material forms the passenger cell of the BMW i3, helping make it unusually light?
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Carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic
Which electric hypercar reached 412 km/h in a 2022 production-car speed test?
Answer
Rimac Nevera
Which electric car was the first to win the North American Car of the Year award?
Answer
Chevrolet Bolt EV
Which electric car was the first production model to use Tesla’s 2170 battery cell?
Answer
Tesla Model 3
Which electric hypercar set a 1.74-second 0–60 mph acceleration claim?
Answer
Rimac Nevera
What battery type powered the first-generation Nissan Leaf?
Answer
Lithium-ion battery
Which electric race car won the 2018 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb outright?
Answer
Volkswagen I.D. R
Which car did Ferdinand Porsche build in 1900 as the first functional gasoline-electric hybrid?
Answer
Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus
What was the name of the electric car that first exceeded 100 km/h on land in 1899?
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La Jamais Contente
Which electric sports car was the first production car to use a two-speed gearbox?
Answer
Porsche Taycan
What was the name of the first Formula E car generation used from 2014 to 2018?
Answer
Spark-Renault SRT 01E
Which electric car was Toyota’s first production battery-electric vehicle?
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Toyota RAV4 EV
Which electric car was Europe’s best-selling model in 2015?
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Renault Zoe
Who built one of Britain’s earliest practical electric cars in 1884?
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Thomas Parker
Which automaker introduced the i-MiEV, one of the first mass-market highway-capable electric cars?
Answer
Mitsubishi Motors
Which electric racing car won the first Formula E race in 2014?
Answer
Spark-Renault SRT_01E
Which electric car introduced Tesla’s first SUV body style in 2015?
Answer
Tesla Model X
Which Tesla charging system introduced a 250-kilowatt maximum charging rate?
Answer
Supercharger V3
Which electric car was the first to use a production lithium-ion battery pack?
Answer
Tesla Roadster
Which Formula E team won the inaugural 2014–15 teams’ championship?
Answer
e.dams Renault
Which company produced the EV1, an early modern mass-produced electric car?
Answer
General Motors
Who became the first Formula E drivers’ champion after the inaugural 2014–15 season?
Answer
Nelson Piquet Jr.
Which electric sedan achieved a 520-mile EPA range rating in 2021?
Answer
Lucid Air Dream Edition Range
Which electric car became the first to reach 500,000 global sales?
Answer
Nissan Leaf