Hello All,
Great forum here, just a bit of a bugger for a noobie are all the acronyms used. Some are simple, but some i still don’t know what they mean. Any way to do a sticky on acronyms for us noobies?
I looked under the general Q&A but did not see anything…
EV: Electric Vehicle (of course!)
ICE: Internal Combustion Engine
PHEV:
E-flex:
NEV:
BEV:
ZEV: Zero Emission Vehicle
Others?
Little help?.. Thank you 
PHEV: Plugin Hybrid Electric vehicle
NEV: Neighborhood Electric Vehicle
BEV: Battery Electric Vehicle
BMS: Battery Management (or monitoring) system
HV: High Voltage
LV: Low Voltage
^ whoa. thanks for your input. i seemed to be bugged by those too.
Nice defination.
EV: Electric Vehicle (of course!)
ICE: Internal Combustion Engine
PHEV:
E-flex:
NEV:
BEV:
ZEV: Zero Emission Vehicle
Nice defination.
Oh a hell of information or abbreviations you have posted.
[QUOTE=DrkAngel;9419]14AAA41 - One For All And All For One
2WD - Two Wheel Drive
4WD - Four Wheel Drive
A - Amps (**A - number amps)
A41A14A - All for one And one for All - oooh … it’s a palindrome
AC - Alternating Current
AGM - Absorption Glass Mat
Ah - Amp Hours (**Ah - number amp hours)
AOK - All OKay
AWD - All Wheel Drive
BB - Best Bud
BEV -Battery Electric Vehicle
BLDC - BrushLess DC (motor)
BMS - Battery Management System or Battery Monitor System
BPM - Beats Per Minute
CARB - California Air Resources Board
CNG - Compressed Natural Gas
CPSC - Consumer Product Safety Commission
DC - Direct Current
DD - Direct Drive
DIY - Do It Yourself
DMV - Department of Motor Vehicles
DNK - Do Not Know
DOA - Dead On Arrival
DOD - Depth of Discharge
eaBike - Electric Assist Bike
eBike - Electric Bike
eCar - electric car
ECE - External Combustion Engine ? (Alternate, non EV uses, more common)
Eco2 - Economical & Ecological
EMF - Electo-Magnetic Field
eMPG - evaluative, (or Equivalent), Miles Per Gallon or electric Miles Per Gallon (compared to gas, by cost) - MPGe
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
EV - Electric Vehicle
FCV - Fuel Cell Vehicle
FET - Field Effect Transistor
FS - Full Suspension
FUBAR - F__ked Up Beyond All Recognition
FWD - Front Wheel Drive
FYI - For Your Information
GFCI - Ground Fault Circuit Interruption
kW - kilowatt
kWh - KiloWatt Hours
kV - kiloVolt
HEV - Hybrid Electric Vehicle
HVC - High Voltage Cutoff
Hz - Hertz
ICE - Internal Combustion Engine
IMO - In My Opinion
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
IMOO - In My Obnoxious Opinion
kV - kiloVolt
kW - kiloWatt
kWh - kiloWatt hour
L&M - LnM - Lean and Mean
LBS - Local Bike Shop
LiCo - Lithium-ion Cobalt (battery)
Li-ion - Lithium ion (battery)
LiFeMgPO4 - lithium iron magnesium phosphate (battery)
LiFePO4 - lithium iron phosphate (battery)
LiMn, Li-Mn - Lithium Manganese (battery)
LiPo - Li-po, Li-poly - Lithium ion polymer (battery)
LiFePO4 - Lithium Iron Phosphate (battery)
LP - Liquefied petroleum (gas)
LVC - Low Voltage Cutoff
m/kWh - miles per kilowatt hour
mAh - milliAmp Hour
MOSFET - Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MPG - Miles Per Gallon
MPGe - Miles Per Gallon electric - (gas-electric equivalent, usually factored by cost ) … eMPG alternative
MYOB - Mind Your Own Business
NA - Not Applicable or Not Available
NEV - Neighborhood Electric Vehicle
NFG - No F__king Good
NHTSA - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NIB - New In Box
Nicd - Nickel Cadmium (battery)
NIMBY - Not In My Back Yard
Nimh - Nickel Metal Hydride (battery)
NOS - New Old Stock
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
OMG - Oh My God
OP - Original Poster
PAS - Pedal Assist System
PCB - Protection Circuit Board - Printed Circuit Board
PCM - Protection Circuit Module - (Management)?
PEV - Personal Electric Vehicle
PHEV - Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicle
PITA - Pain In The A__
PLA - Poured Lead Acid (battery)
PM - Personal Message
POS - Piece Of Sh_t
PSI - Pounds per Square Inch
PV - Photovoltaic
PWM - Pulse Width Modulation - Pulse Wave Management - …
RPM - Revolutions Per Minute
SLA - Sealed Lead Acid (battery)
SOC - State Of Charge
SOL - Sh_t Outa Luck
SWAG - Scientific Wild Ass Guess
TAG - Twist And Go
TRE - Towable Range Extender
UNSWAG - Unscientific wild ass guess
V - Volts (**V - number volts)
WAG - Wild Ass Guess
WOT - Wide Open Throttle
ZEV - Zero Emissions Vehicle[/QUOTE]
Thanks for all the Acrony
LSV low speed vehicle.
Very important at the DMV in Illinois.
[QUOTE=SolarJoe;12973]Thanks for all the Acrony[/QUOTE]
PEVs usually means Plug-in Electric Vehicles (Generic term for all plug-in vehicles)
Also helpful are the SAE LEVELS of AC and DC Charging.
AC levels 1 & 2 (There is no AC Level 3 at present - this term is often incorrectly used to describe DC Level 2 - aka DC Fast Charge - see below)
AC level 1 (SAE J1772™)
PEV includes on-board charger
120V, 1.4 kW @ 12 amp
120V, 1.9 kW @ 16 amp
Est. charge time:
PHEV: 7hrs (SOC* - 0% to full)
BEV: 17hrs (SOC – 20% to full)
AC level 2 (SAE J1772™)
PEV includes on-board charger (see below for different
types)
240 V, up to 19.2 kW (80 A)
Est. charge time for 3.3 kW on-board charger
PEV: 3 hrs (SOC* - 0% to full)
BEV: 7 hrs (SOC – 20% to full)
Est. charge time for 7 kW on-board charger
PEV: 1.5 hrs (SOC* - 0% to full)
BEV: 3.5 hrs (SOC – 20% to full)
Est. charge time for 20 kW on-board charger
PEV: 22 min. (SOC* - 0% to full)
BEV: 1.2 hrs (SOC – 20% to full)
DC Level 1 & 2
DC Level 1
EVSE includes an off-board charger
200-500 V DC, up to 40 kW (80 A)
Est. charge time (20 kW off-board charger):
PHEV: 22 min. (SOC - 0% to 80%)
BEV: 1.2 hrs. (SOC – 20% to 100%)
DC Level 2
EVSE includes an off-board charger
200-500 V DC, up to 100 kW (200 A)
Est. charge time (45 kW off-board charger):
PHEV: 10 min. (SOC* - 0% to 80%)
BEV: 20 min. (SOC – 20% to 80%)
*In development
Voltages are nominal configuration voltages, not coupler ratings
Rated Power is at nominal configuration operating voltage and coupler rated current
Ideal charge times assume 90% efficient chargers, 150W to 12V loads and no balancing of Traction Battery Pack
There seem to be a lot more acronyms associated with the electric vehicle market than there do with the gasoline car market!
Who thinks that sometimes the industry goes overboard on the technical side?
[QUOTE=Editor;15025]There seem to be a lot more acronyms associated with the electric vehicle market than there do with the gasoline car market!
Who thinks that sometimes the industry goes overboard on the technical side?[/QUOTE]
I believe the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) industry use a lot more acronyms. Then you have the ICT departments in companies and organizations that have their own set just for their company.
This industry is too quick to bloom that many its technicalities are already too hard to memorize. I remember when batteries were called batteries and not Li-ion or Li-cobalt. This is seriously a lot of coping up to do. Guess, I have to stay focus on this hobby even more. Thanks, anyway for all the information!
The big list -
................................ [B][Acronyms - What They Stand For!](http://endless-sphere.com/w/index.php/Acronyms)[/B] ............................[quote=frodus;4590]PHEV: Plugin Hybrid Electric vehicle
NEV: Neighborhood Electric Vehicle
BEV: Battery Electric Vehicle
BMS: Battery Management (or monitoring) system
HV: High Voltage
LV: Low Voltage[/quote]
absolutely right~
[quote=frodus;4590]NEV: Neighborhood Electric Vehicle
[/quote]
Ha - hadn’t heard of that one before.
That may be an understatement. I have fought acronyms for years. The government services are the worse. In this day of computers, you would think that writers would just spell it out so all would understand what they are talking about. Correct form is to spell out in document followed by footnote or brackets with acronym. It has been my experience that people who use a lot of acronyms are trying to show up others, how more advanced they are. Example; I write engineering standards and TAG means Technical Advisory Group, not Twist and Go! Look how many means there are for FEMA!
We’ve got a '15 Club Car Carryall electric, can anyone tell me what the EFI on the front fender stands for?
Was at the DMV Friday in downtown Chicago and they had no idea what I was trying to get titled… When the vehicle came from the city of Chicago.