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title: Inheritance Basics
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# Inheritance Basics

So great you have successfully created a Car class. But, wait, aren't Tesla cars supposed to be electric variants? I want an Electric car class, but it also should have the properties of the original `Car` class.

Solution : **Inheritance**. Java provides a neat way to "inherit" parent properties :

```java
public class Car {

    private String name;
    private String manufacturerName;

    public Car(String name, String man) {
        this.name = name;
        this.manufacturerName = man;
    }
    // Getter method
    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }
    // Getter method
    public String getManufacturerName() {
        return manufacturerName;
    }
}

public class ElectricCar extends Car {

    public ElectricCar(String name, String man) {
        super(name, man);
    }

    public void charge() {
     System.out.println("Charging ...");
    }
}

ElectricCar modelS = new ElectricCar("Model S","Tesla");
// prints Tesla
System.out.println(modelS.getManufacturerName());
// prints Charging ...
modelS.charge();
```

![:rocket:](//forum.freecodecamp.com/images/emoji/emoji_one/rocket.png?v=2 ":rocket:") <a href='https://repl.it/CJZY/0' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Run Code</a>

See here that the class `ElectricCar` inherits or `extends` the public methods from `Car` class, as well as has its own methods and properties. Cool way to pass on information!

Also notice the usage of <a href='https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/super.html' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>super</a> keyword here. Since our `Car` class had a constructor, so we have to initialize that constructor from the child class as well. We do that using the `super` keyword. Read more about <a>Inheritance here</a>.