China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development

by Kelly Sims Gallagher

Book Overview

Chinese production of automobiles rose from 42,000 cars per year in 1990 to 2.3 million in 2004; the number of passenger vehicles on the road doubled every two and a half years through the 1990s and continues to grow. In China Shifts Gears, Kelly Sims Gallagher identifies an unprecedented opportunity for China to "shift gears" and avoid the usual problems associated with the automobile industry--including urban air pollution caused by tailpipe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026257232X
• ISBN13: 9780262572323
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher