electric car

1. 1.

   a car that is powered by electricity

   Synonymselectricelectric automobile

   Broadercar

Questions about electric car

What does electric car mean?

electric car means "a car that is powered by electricity".

What is another word for electric car?

Close synonyms include electric, electric automobile. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electric car a common word?

electric car is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.