The Electric Vehicle
Subtitle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 22, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780801871382
Subjects: Automotive technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Inventions; Technology; Science/Mathematics; Engineering - Automotive; Science / History; History; Automobiles, Electric; Electric automobiles
First sentence: IN 1881, WHEN CHARLES JEANTAUD, the Parisian engineer and carriage builder, in cooperation with Camille Faure, equipped a light "tilbury" with an electric propulsion system by means of a Gramme motor and Fulmen batteries, Benz's and Daimler's "invention of the automobile" was still five years in the future.
Description: "In Electric Vehicle, Gijs Mom challenges this view, arguing that at the beginning of the automobile age neither the internal combustion engine nor the battery-powered vehicle enjoyed a clear advantage. He explores the technology and marketing/consumer-feedback relationship over four "generations" of electric-vehicle design, with separate chapters on privately owned passenger cars and commercial vehicles. He makes abundant comparisons among European countries and between Europe and America." "The Electric Vehicle offers a long-overdue reassessment of the place of this technology in the history of street transportation."--Jacket.