The Electric Vehicle

"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.

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.

Year

2004

Language

English

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Editions

1

Pages

440

ISBN

9780801871382

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