In this weeks blog post I am going to be talking about the technology behind an electric car. Electric cars are a relatively new invention and they are very fascinating to me. I took this blog post as an opportunity to do research about this amazing invention us humans have been able to create. An electric car functions by plugging into to a charge point and taking electricity from the grid. They store this electricity in rechargeable batteries that power an electric motor, which turn the wheels causing the car to move. A fun fact is that electric cars accelerate faster than vehicles with traditional fuel engines so it feels lighter to drive than vehicles with fuel engines. Electric cars include all 6 simple machines (lever, wheel and axle, pulley, wedge, screw, and inclined plane.) It was really interesting to learn about this and I am excited to learn about more topics soon.