The objective of this paper is to show that electric vehicles are now using several batteries to improve performance. First, the confusion surrounding fuel cells (FCs) in electric vehicles is addressed to emphasize that an FC is a battery, despite having a different name. William Grove first named the FC in 1839 as a ‘gas battery’. The research methodology starts with existing vehicle designs that show better behavior than the Tesla-X because they use two or three different batteries with differing advantages. Comparison with standard single battery vehicles shows that further advances might be made. Discussion analysis shows that Asian manufacturers are installing several batteries in buses and trucks which display less weight, good acceleration/braking and longer range. Most battery vehicle literature focuses on a single battery type, such as lithium, but new references show this is changing as charging infrastructure becomes critical in many countries. The key research finding is that new multi-battery electric vehicles are emerging, just as multi-computer vehicles have become normal since 1970.