David A Kirsch

The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Was the electric car ever a viable competitor for the petrol one? This book examines the relationship of technology, society and environment to choice, policy and outcome in the history of American transportation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780813528090
• ISBN-10: 0813528097
• Artikelnr.: 21659604

Autorenporträt

Kirsch, David A

Inhaltsangabe

Rescuing the alternatives to internal combustion: large technical systems,
technological comptetition, and the burden of history
William C. Whitney, Albert A. Pope, Richard W. Meade, and the Electric
Vehicle Company: semi-public electric vehicle transportation service,
1897-1912
Central stations and the electric vehicle industry: organizing to support
electric vehicles, 1900-1925
The electric truck and the rise and fall of appropriate spheres
Infrastructure automobile touring, and the dynamics of automotive systems
choice
Excursus: the accidents that never happened
The burden of history: expectations past and imperfect
Technological hybrids and the automobile system: from the electrified gas
car to the electrification of the automobile
Industrial ecology and the future of the automobile: large-scale
technological systems, technological choice, and public policy