ABSTRACT
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
Henry Ford
An electric vehicle (EV) has the advantage of being very simple to design and build. The EV is very efficient particularly in comparison to internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEs); there is no radiator and engine cooling system that uses fluids in most EVs. Since there are no exhaust emissions, no catalytic converter is needed. This simplicity reduces maintenance costs. In the last several years, many new EVs have been introduced and made available for sale in the United States and throughout the world (Inside EVs, 2016). More than 500,000 EVs were manufactured and delivered in 2015 in the world (Inside EVs, 2016).
