FAQ

EVSE (electric vehicle supply equipment) or EV charger or charging station is a device that is used for charging your electric car. This is what we can offer you to install at your premises. 

ICEV (Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle) is what is considered today normal car with engine that uses either Diesel or Petrol. ICE can refer both to car or engine.

Battery electric vehicles or BEV electric vehicles that don’t have Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) at all. First such cars existed from late 19 century, just like your “normal” cars. But they had only short range and used lead-acid batteries, and as such were slow, heavy, and couldn’t travel far. It took more then 100 years for BEVs to become competitive with ICE cars. Today’s BEVs use Lithium-Ion batteries similar to the ones in your phone. We can finally say that this cars are good, and in some ways better then ICE cars. That is why almost every single car producer in the world already has BEVs in their line-ups, and are introducing new ones every day. Tesla may be poster boy for BEVs, and they have introduced models S, X, 3 and Y, but we also have Renault with Zoe and soon e-Megane, Volkswagen with ID.3, ID.4 and e-UP, Škoda with Enyaq and Citigo, Peugeot with e-208 and e-2008, Opel with Corsa-e and Mokka-e. Outside Europe, even Ford is going electric with its most famous product, F150 Lightning. Hyundai has various cars with Ioniq marque. And you know where the future lies when Porsche has Taycan and Mercedes now has electric S klasse fully electric with EQS. The list is longer everyday.

HEV (Hybrid Electric Vehicle) is combination of ICEV and BEV. It has ICE in it, but it also has small battery. This kind of car cannot be charged externally. Reason for batteries and electric engine is that it improves fuel consumption over your normal pure ICEV. But it also increases complexity of a car, because it has everything ICEV has, and almost everything BEV has. There is also MHEV, where M stands for Mild. They are basically normal cars with start and stop technology, or tiny battery, so not really a Hybrid car.

PHEV (Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) is one step closer to pure BEVs over HEV. Just like BEV, they can be charged. Furthermore, they usually have bigger battery then HEV,  especially newer cars and because of that, they can go for quite some kilometres before turning on your ICE. It basically has all components that both ICE and BEV have. This, like in HEV increases complexity of such cars, which in turn increases cost of maintenance, since you have to maintain your ICE just like with normal cars, plus a little extra that BEVs need.

FCEV (Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle) is here, because we don’t like to half-ass whatever we do. So, FCEV is a car that is powered by Hydrogen fuel cells. We might be wrong, but currently, it doesn’t look like there is a future for these cars because Hydrogen is expensive, there are more EVSE in Montenegro then there are Hydrogen stations in the world, and its not like its a new thing, Toyota started developing FCEV 15 years ago, but it still isn’t good enough for almost anyone. Main advantage over BEVs is that it can be refueled quickly, similar to ICEV, but hydrogen is highly explosive, smallest molecule that leaks from everything, makes steel brittle, and finally expensive.