The electric vehicle : technology and expectations in the automobile age /
Mom, Gijs, 1949-
The electric vehicle : technology and expectations in the automobile age / Gijs Mom. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2004. - xiii, 423 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-411) and index.
Substituting for the horse, choosing propulsion -- Separate spheres : culture and technology of the early car -- Failed experiments : the first-generation electric taxicab -- Horse power : the city car, the touring car, and the crisis of 1907 -- The Trojan horse : the competition for the taxicab market -- The electrified horse : the commercial vehicle in Europe -- The serious side of mobility : the electric truck in the United States -- Off the road and back : utilitarian niches or new universalism? -- Alternative technologies and the history of tomorrow's car.
0801871387 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2002151369
BA479431
Electric automobiles--History.
TL220 / .M6613 2004
The electric vehicle : technology and expectations in the automobile age / Gijs Mom. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2004. - xiii, 423 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-411) and index.
Substituting for the horse, choosing propulsion -- Separate spheres : culture and technology of the early car -- Failed experiments : the first-generation electric taxicab -- Horse power : the city car, the touring car, and the crisis of 1907 -- The Trojan horse : the competition for the taxicab market -- The electrified horse : the commercial vehicle in Europe -- The serious side of mobility : the electric truck in the United States -- Off the road and back : utilitarian niches or new universalism? -- Alternative technologies and the history of tomorrow's car.
0801871387 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2002151369
BA479431
Electric automobiles--History.
TL220 / .M6613 2004