The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age

by Gijs Mom

Book Overview

Recent attention to hybrid cars that run on both gasoline and electric batteries has made the electric car an apparent alternative to the internal combustion engine and its attendant environmental costs and geopolitical implications. Few people realize that the electric car--neither a recent invention nor a historical curiosity--has a story as old as that of the gasoline-powered automobile, and that at one time many in the nascent automobile industry...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801871387
• ISBN13: 9780801871382
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.2" x 10.1"